Stephen Lecce

Toronto’s youth cabinet and a string of education and human rights groups are reupping demands for rigorous provincial action to root out systemic racism in schools, wary of the issue getting pushed aside amid broader pandemic-related challenges.

The question of how to deal with education sits at the centre of the province’s reopening dilemma, since anything less than a full return to classes makes it difficult for working parents who have for months been juggling both the working and the parenting.

The Ontario premier and his health minister got tested yesterday after another minister was in contact with someone who had the virus.

Ontario's education minister accused Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau on Wednesday, October 2, 2019, of trying to politicize the province's labour negotiations with school support workers to score points ahead of the federal election.