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Doug Ford’s 2023 budget is hiding a $47 million cut to education
by Mitchell Thompson, Ontario Reporters
March 23, 2023
Despite the prospects of layoffs across Ontario’s school system, Doug Ford’s 2023 budget has no additional funds earmarked for education, leaving the province’s education system tens of millions of dollars in the hole.
Adjusting for changes to last year’s interim expenses, Ontario’s 2023 budget notes that the education system saw a $47 million spending cut due to a reduction in “non-government revenue”:
“Education Sector expense is projected to be $47 million lower, primarily due to school boards experiencing lower…
Gray-green. Gray-green bathroom tiles. Gray-green painted walls in dining room. Gray-green painted walls in bedroom.
Gray-green is having a moment. And no wonder: post-pandemic, cooler neutrals such as gray and white are being replaced by warmer, more inviting neutrals.
Recently, we asked what color is replacing gray? And while many of us are happy with the answer (beige), others of us love decorating with gray, and are finding it hard to move on.
Enter: gray-green, a warmer, muddier tone than traditional, cooler grays, and one that’s the perfect middle ground. ‘An amalgamation of gray, green and bluey brown, this shade…
By Staff
The Canadian Press
Posted March 23, 2023 4:27 pm
Updated March 23, 2023 6:16 pm
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The British Columbia government says it is permanently doubling the number of subsidized seats for people who want to train to become veterinarians and practice in the province.
Education Minister Selina Robinson says the government will provide $21.8 million over three years to subsidize students who want to train to be vets at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Saskatchewan.
BC has been funding 20 seats at the university, but Robinson says the new…
Afghanistan’s schools have reopened for the new academic year, but hundreds of thousands of teenage girls remain barred from attending classes as Taliban authorities ban their attendance at secondary schools.
Education Minister Habibullah Agha confirmed in a statement that schools up to grade six “will currently be open for girls”, effectively retaining a ban on high school for female students.
Madrassas, or Islamic schools, are the only education centers open for girls of all ages. Yalda, a ninth grader in Kabul, told Al Jazeera that the madrassa was good for enhancing her knowledge of religion.
But “the madrassa cannot help…
A handful of factors, such as education, income and job type, may increase the likelihood that people in their mid-50s will still be mentally sharp, a new study finds.
An analysis of data from more than 7,000 US adults showed that these factors could explain nearly 40% of the differences in the amount of cognitive abilities people had lost by age 54. Education, in particular whether a person had finished college, made the biggest difference in cognitive abilities such as memory, judgment and focus, Ohio State University scientists reported Wednesday in a scientific journal.
The researchers analyzed data from the…
What happened
Tuesday is shaping up to be a rough day for Chinese for-profit education stocks — even on a generally ebullient, bad-banking-news-free day in the US market.
The broads S&P 500 index was up a solid 2.1% as of 11:30 am ET, but shares of China’s New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU -0.20%) were off 7%, Gaotu Techedu (GOTU -1.42%) limited slide by 7.6%, and TAL Education (TAL 0.18%) was doing worst of all — down 12.4%.
So what
According to the market watchers at StreetInsider.com, TAL is to blame for the segment’s sell-off.
According to SI, “local…
Taipei, Taiwan — It is Jamie Wang’s headline show at Taipei’s Two Three Comedy and the audience loves her. She has been doing standup sets at shows and open-mic nights here for a year.
Tonight, she is wearing a pink minidress with knee-high white boots, her eyeshadow glittering under the spotlight. She gives a dry delivery of sex jokes — and anecdotes about what it’s like to be a Chinese citizen in Taiwan.
“The most common question I get is like, ‘do you know there is no democracy in China?’ No s***, Sherlock,” she says as the crowd erupts with…
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Alberta’s UCP government is trumpeting its plan to spend almost $200 million over three years to train thousands of new…