List of schools closed in the Greater Toronto Area for Thursday, January 15, 2026

Dr. Shirley Williams, who died in Little Current on Manitoulin Island on Dec. 19 at 87 years of age, was a linguist, language professor, activist, elder and knowledge keeper. For several decades she instructed and revitalized the Anishinaabemowin language at Trent University in Peterborough, Ont., a place known in her mother tongue as Nogojiwanong, meaning “place at the end of the rapids.”She was a resilient, barrier-breaking professor who, in addition to teaching the language, authored dictionaries and lexicons, created curricula and wrote other works vital to the cultural resurgence...