Toronto District School Board

In the wake of the latest violent attack against Muslims in Canada, high school student Alisha Aslam created a resource to help the Toronto District School Board address hate and empower other youth to speak out.

Kingsway College School in Toronto’s west end is selling $4 million of community bonds (and taking donations) to fund the construction and renovation of a 40,000-square foot senior school site over two floors of a lakeshore condominium.

Public health officials ordered the closure of a Toronto elementary school on the weekend due to a COVID-19 outbreak, while the province recorded its single highest count of positive new cases since the pandemic began.

Rachel Rosen doesn't even know what classes she'll be teaching in three weeks, let alone how she'll juggle preparing in-person and online lessons.

High school students in Toronto say they worry about online learning and how vaguely they’ve been kept apprised of logistics for the half-days they’ll be attending classes physical and virtual when schools reopen in September.

Toronto Public Health adds its voice to a growing chorus of concern about back-to-school plans in a letter to the Toronto District School Board over class sizes and the inability to physically distance adequately.

Critics have a long list of suggestions for Education Minister Stephen Lecce and the school boards charged with turning government policy into practice.

Students in Canada are expected to participate in climate demonstrations beginning this Friday, September 20, 2019, and some school boards are moving to allow — even encourage — them to miss class for the cause.

"Twenty-first century education is supposed to be about problem solving and creative solutions and those things don't get developed when you're online," teacher Beyhan Farhadi told National Observer. "If the government heads in this direction, students will suffer."

A powerful winter storm that brought heavy rain and snow to much of Eastern and Central Canada has closed schools, flooded streets, knocked out power and is forcing school buses to stay off the roads in Toronto today as temperatures plummet.

Urmila Persaud spent months picturing herself walking across a stage to collect her high-school diploma in front of friends and family.