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SOME ONTARIO BOARDS PLAN TO KEEP VIRTUAL LEARNING EVEN IF PROVINCE DOESN’T REQUIRE IT

February 02 2023

Several Ontario school boards are planning to continue offering virtual learning next year, forging ahead before provincial direction is set, and saying it’s now more about a different mode of learning rather than a pandemic...

‘IT WAS KIND OF SCARY’: HOW THIS 99-YEAR-OLD BLAZED A TRAIL FOR BLACK TEACHERS IN ONTARIO

February 02 2023

Millie Burgess says she spent much of her career relishing telling strangers she had 20 children and watching their jaws drop. Burgess, 99, wasn’t their mother. She was an elementary school teacher who considered the children she taught each...

ETFO CALLS FOR ACTION TO ADDRESS GAPS THAT CONTINUE TO NEGATIVELY IMPACT BLACK CANADIANS

February 01 2023

As we begin Black History Month 2023, the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) reaffirms its solidarity with the United Nations in demanding the protection of human rights of people of African descent. Black History...

‘FRUSTRATINGLY SLOW:’ TEACHERS’ UNION WITHOUT A CONTRACT WEIGHS IN ON NEGOTIATIONS

January 27 2023

Ontario’s four teachers’ unions have been without a contract since last August, and it appears they are nowhere closer to reaching a deal with the Ford government. Barb Dobrowolski, President of the Ontario English Catholic...

TEACHERS’ UNIONS READY TO ‘MOBILIZE’ IF FORD GOVERNMENT LEGISLATES CONTRACT

January 25 2023

Ontario’s teachers’ unions are warning the Ford government that they are ready to “mobilize” if the province imposes a contract on educators or uses the notwithstanding clause to settle any bargaining dispute. The four unions representing the province’s teachers are...

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