THUNDER BAY — Local teachers’ unions and other labour groups are working to bring attention to the possibility school board trustees could be sidelined by an administrator appointed by the Ontario government, or perhaps replaced with an entirely new...

The provincial appointee running the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) is warning that a balanced budget isn’t around the corner. Bob Plamondon made those comments at a Special Education Advisory Committee (SEAC) meeting on Wednesday,...

On a June afternoon in 2022, in the hallway of an ivy-covered high school in Ottawa, 15 year-old Matthew Morris was dragged into a bathroom by a fellow student, knocked to the tiled floor and...

ETFO President David Mastin discusses the ‘deeply disturbing’ government bill which looks to give the education ministry more power to take over school boards.

The education minister said he’s tasked supervisors at the school boards under provincial control to ‘review the funding formula’ and examine whether ‘we are indeed spending enough money on special education’

Alberta teachers are back in class, but their union’s lawyers were in court Thursday, issuing two separate legal challenges to the province’s back-to-work order.

The Alberta Teachers’ Association leadership is considering legally challenge Bill 2, which forced teachers back to work and invoked the notwithstanding clause. As Travis McEwan reports, the outcomes may be limited, but law experts say...

Thousands of Alberta students, including many in Calgary, walked out of class Thursday morning to show support for teachers who were legislated back to work earlier this week under the province’s Back to School Act....

The Alberta Teachers’ Association says it will use every legal avenue it can to challenge the provincial government’s Back to School Act. Using procedural shortcuts, the Alberta government passed the bill early Tuesday, just hours...

The Alberta government used the notwithstanding clause to end the teachers’ strike, imposing a three-year contract. Jason Foster, a labour relations professor with Athabasca University, says the government’s move breaches charter rights and sets a...