Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Patricia Treble
Publication Date: May 27, 2025 - 21:28
A royal visit steeped in symbolism
May 27, 2025
This visit by King Charles III and Queen Camilla, which culminated in him opening the 45th Parliament and delivering the government’s Throne Speech, was put together at the last minute, fit into a busy section of the royal calendar, and was over 24 hours after it began. It may have come as a response to serious political and economic threats from the United States, but the King’s first visit as Canada’s monarch displays notable symmetry with a more long-planned visit 68 years ago, when Queen Elizabeth II’s first visit to Canada as monarch was also a brief stop in Ottawa to open Parliament.
Unpublished Newswire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...
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