Unpublished Newswire
When Ontario’s standardized test results were released last month, they pointed to the trouble many students are having learning math − but some boards have been excelling. Half of Grade 6 students and 42 per cent of students in Grade 9 did not meet the provincial standard for math in the 2024-25 school year, according to data released by the Education Quality and Accountability Office, an arm’s length agency of the provincial government.
January 10, 2026 - 07:10 | Dave McGinn | The Globe and Mail
Nearly 21 years ago, MPPs across all parties at Queen’s Park pledged to make Ontario completely accessible to people with disabilities by the beginning of 2025. But with that date now well past, advocates say the process has been a failure and that there is no sign the current government intends to change course.A full calendar year has now passed since the Jan. 1, 2025, deadline embedded in the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), which was passed unanimously under the then-Liberal provincial government of premier Dalton McGuinty in 2005.
January 10, 2026 - 07:05 | Jeff Gray | The Globe and Mail
A former Ubisoft Halifax employee is questioning the timing of their studio's sudden closure, weeks after they formed the first ever North American union in the company's history.
January 10, 2026 - 07:00 | Ella Macdonald | Global News - Canada
Gathie Falk was a tireless innovator, a painter, sculptor, superb colourist, inventive ceramicist and performance artist, who from impoverished beginnings became one of the hardest working and most celebrated artists Vancouver has ever produced.Her art revealed the miraculous in the commonplace: a slippery fish, a red apple, a watermelon, the night sky full of stars. Over a long lifetime, she remained enthralled by the world’s beauty and strangeness.
January 10, 2026 - 07:00 | Judy Stoffman | The Globe and Mail
Despite a four-day power outage and subsequent plumbing issues that forced 4,000 people to evacuate, many in this northern First Nation chose to stay. They're holdouts — many either dealing with water and sewage issues at their own properties, or helping their neighbours who are.
January 10, 2026 - 07:00 | | CBC News - Canada
For six years, Doug Ford has had a problem named Therme. Since the Ontario Premier agreed to hand over much of Ontario Place to that European waterpark operator, he has been plagued by a crush of allegations – chiefly, of rewriting the rules to serve a pet project and a well-connected business. He’s waved them away like a pesky swarm of flies.He can’t so easily dismiss the Supreme Court of Canada. In a surprising move this week, the court agreed to hear a challenge of Mr. Ford’s 2023 Rebuilding Ontario Place Act. The move is the message: His aggressive, destructive, expensive remaking of...
January 10, 2026 - 06:45 | Alex Bozikovic | The Globe and Mail
