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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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Ottawa police and their colleagues across Canada sent out alerts this week about the return of the “South American theft groups.” The thieves, also called “crime tourists,” legally enter the country alone or in small groups, then “commit coordinated residential and retail break-ins,” police said. In addition to Ottawa, investigations in the Greater Toronto Area, […]
December 6, 2025 - 14:22 | Norman Provencher | Ottawa Citizen
Polytechnique Montréal honoured the 14 women murdered in the 1989 anti-feminist attack, with ceremonies, tributes and calls from leaders to confront gender-based violence.
December 6, 2025 - 14:06 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Prime Minister Mark Carney rescinded Canada’s digital services tax (DST), a three per cent levy on digital services revenue from large domestic and foreign businesses, in June after President Donald Trump threatened to halt trade talks if the tax took effect. The repeal was a strategic move to restart stalled negotiations with the United States, which soon resumed after Carney’s announcement but were again disrupted later … by a Ronald Reagan ad. Despite removing the DST to ease tensions, Carney has little to show for it.
Still, the Cato Institute’s Adam Michel,...
December 6, 2025 - 12:40 | Tracy Moran | National Post
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