How Ottawa parents can give their kids the best education possible

 If you are an Ottawa parent, ensuring your kids get a strong education — an education that positions them to do well in college, university, and the workplace — is simultaneously one of the most important and most difficult challenges to navigate. A good education will not only help your

A teacher extraordinaire

 PHOTO CAPTION: Teacher extraordinaire, Buse Laphia Simbonge (LEFT) is pictured with Adele Blair. Ontario teachers are making a point. They are protesting, withdrawing services and dealing with stressful heavy demands in their classrooms. Many of them are among the brightest and the best workers we have in our labour force in

Education under attack

 op-ed by Harvey Bischof Harvey Bischof is the President of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation Ontarians have a great deal to lose if the Ford government cannot be convinced to change its approach to education. Widely recognized as among the finest in the world, Ontario’s publicly funded education system

How long must I dream?

 Have you ever wondered what our teachers talk about late at night, cuddled up under the comforter with their beloved, snug and comfy in the darkened hush of their conjugal beds? Do you ever wonder what they think about after they kiss goodnight and try to wriggle into that restorative state

So Unnecessary: Ontario’s Fabricated School Crisis

 On September 11, Premier Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals brought back the Ontario legislature early to get Bill 115 passed. The controversial bill banned strikes, froze wages and clawed back all retroactive pay hikes for Ontario teachers for two years. The government said the province was deep in debt and public servants,