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Publication Date: December 3, 2025 - 18:00
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December 3, 2025
Ontario’s Education Minister is preparing for a thorough review of how the province conducts Standardized Testing. Paul Calandra made that promise in the wake of the province’s latest EQAO test results, which were officially released Wednesday morning. And while the results do show slight gains in Reading, Writing, and Math, he argues those gains aren’t good enough. Kristy Cameron chats with Rene Jansen in de Wal, the President of the English Catholic Teachers Association of Ontario. Plus, as the holiday travel season ramps up, Julie Beun from CAA North and East Ontario delivers a few tips to make the travel process easier. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.
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A Calgary company that uses stranded oil and gas assets to power its own bitcoin mines says Alberta’s enthusiasm for new investment in data centres can play a role in solving some of the province’s worries around old wells. New West Data Corp. buys up wells that are producing oil and gas, but the natural gas side of the operation is uneconomic, generally because of a lack of infrastructure to transport it off-site. The company then installs small, natural-gas-fired electricity generators at the sites to power mines.
January 8, 2026 - 06:00 | Emma Graney | The Globe and Mail
The federal government’s limp response to measuring public service productivity — that they're simply not going to do it — is deflating for those who imagined that Prime Minister Mark Carney would act like a noted economist. Read More
January 8, 2026 - 05:00 | Aaron Hutchins | Ottawa Citizen
I wonder if all the public servants residing in the Carleton riding, the ones who abandoned Mr. Pierre Poilievre and voted Liberal, are feeling a sense of betrayal or voter's remorse? Read More
January 8, 2026 - 05:00 | Doug Menary, Ottawa Citizen | Ottawa Sun
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