Unpublished Newswire
The Toronto District School Board has been stopped from erasing the names of Sir John A. Macdonald, Egerton Ryerson and Henry Dundas from its schools.
The new legislation, introduced by Ontario education minister, Paul Calandra, on May 29, will require a board to apply to the minister before changing the name of an existing school.
If a board began using a new name on Jan. 1, 2025 or afterward, the law would still enable the minister to require a board to apply for approval.
Then it will be open to the minister to approve or reject the new name.
The legislation...
May 30, 2025 - 17:49 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
Premier Doug Ford says he encouraged efforts to remove a wooden structure that, for five years, has hidden the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald on the Ontario Legislature’s front lawn, saying the province has to support Canada’s first prime minister and stop worrying about the past.The decision to reveal the statue, pushed by Progressive Conservative and Liberal members of a legislative committee earlier this week, has reignited debate about Macdonald’s tainted legacy at a time when the province is facing new tensions with First Nations.
May 30, 2025 - 17:48 | Laura Stone | The Globe and Mail
The province is currently in the process of passing Bill 5, Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, legislation it introduced to speed up mining projects in the north.
May 30, 2025 - 17:47 | Isaac Callan | Global News - Ottawa
The government launched the committee in December 2023 after a number of gender-related incidents in schools.
May 30, 2025 - 17:47 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
Almost one year after serial killer Robert Pickton died following an assault by another inmate in a Quebec prison, there have been no charges against the alleged assailant and few answers about what happened.Pickton died in hospital on May 31, 2024, after being assaulted at the Port-Cartier maximum security prison 12 days prior. The 74-year-old was convicted in 2007 of six counts of second-degree murder but was suspected of killing dozens more women at his pig farm in Port Coquitlam, B.C.The Correctional Service of Canada first issued a release on May 20 last year about a “major assault...
May 30, 2025 - 17:26 | Morgan Lowrie | The Globe and Mail
A premature harbour seal nicknamed Zeus has been rescued after being found alone on the shores of White Rock, B.C. Lindsaye Akhurst, senior manager of the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society, says the pup was likely only a day or two old and was hypothermic, hungry, and had remnants of his umbilical cord attached when he was found.
May 30, 2025 - 17:17 | | The Globe and Mail
