Category: Regional News

All quiet on Cedar Hill as social housing expansion planned

The House of Friendship’s planned expansion of supportive housing on Charles Street East will hardly be noticed as the city centre is transformed by high-density developments, says an urban planner and author.

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Local teacher removed from school board meeting for ‘transphobic comments’

The teacher told the public school board that a book available in school libraries make 'very serious medical interventions seem like an easy cure for emotional and social distress'

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Waterloo Region risks losing affordable housing as mortgages end

With the Region seeing soaring home costs, declining rental vacancy and more than 6,500 families on the wait-list for an affordable unit, housing officials want to do everything they can to retain existing affordable units and encourage new ones, said Jennifer Murdoch-Martin, manager of housing programs and development at the Region

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Ontario is trying to replicate full school-day with online learning. But a computer screen cannot replace a classroom

Ontario now needs to shift its virtual learning strategy away from attempting to replace the classroom with a computer screen to a more innovative strategy, teacher Adam Dharsee writes. Just a week in, online learning has proved to be tumultuous for parents, education workers, and of course students. As a elementary school teacher, it’s been very clear that in-person learning is best for all students and creates a safe space where children can learn and grow both academically and socially.

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Leadership by example in 2022

As a boy during the civil war in Lebanon, he spent many nights in a bomb shelter with his family. The minutes could feel like hours. They were afraid for their lives.

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