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How Many Teachers Is Your School Set to Lose? Calculate it here.
by Ricardo Tranjan on February 4, 2020 Previously, we have examined the board-by-board impact of larger class sizes and mandatory e-learning in Ontario schools. One blog estimated the number of teaching positions that...No-one is happy with the property tax: Principles and taxes in Nova Scotia
by CCPA-NS on February 4, 2020 “No one is happy with the property tax. It is expensive to administer. The property tax is regressive – it puts a heavier burden on people with low incomes than on everyone...Quebec’s (sadly) distinct education system
by Our Schools / Our Selves on February 3, 2020 Le Mouvement L’école ensemble was launched by parents in 2017 to address connections between public financing, equity and school segregation, an issue that no government in Quebec...Disasters foretold: Boeing 737 Max 8 and Lac-Mégantic
by Bruce Campbell on January 29, 2020 The Boeing 737 Max 8 crashes—Lion Air in Indonesia in October 2018 and five months later, Ethiopian Airlines in Addis Ababa —killed 346 including 18 Canadians. Comparisons with...Three decades lost: not even a 1% reduction in child poverty in Nova Scotia since 1989
by CCPA-NS on January 23, 2020 It has been 30 years since the all-party resolution in the House of Commons to eliminate poverty among Canadian children by the year 2000. It is also almost 30 years since Canada...
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