The encounter between a Rivian driver and uninformed Tesla owner highlights 'a need for better education and communication within the EV community,' the Rivian driver says.
A bunch of school boards in Ontario have launched lawsuits against TikTok, Snapchat, and Meta, alleging the way the social media platforms are designed is harming children and disrupting schools.
Ford disagrees with the lawsuits, but also believes that his ban on cellphones in schools in 2019 was effective. This demonstrates yet again that he and his government are clueless when it comes to education in this province.
“They grew up being told they were going to be better off than their parents. The fact is, they struggled to find jobs, and the jobs they found were not as good as their parents’. They and the generations that follow them are saddled with college debt. They’re looking at a world where they wonder if they should even have...
CMG members at TVO are asking their employer and the government for fair wages, and are saying “NO” to normalizing precarious work at your provincial public broadcaster.
The Ford government is obsessed with turning TVO into a profit-focused, online education platform, so they can replace real, in-person learning with online learning in Ontario classrooms — to continue cuts to education spending — but then to also sell the education modules they are creating in the US market and abroad.
That’s why the business objectives outlined in a letter from earlier this year from Education Minister Stephen Lecce (TVO is under the Ministry of Education), makes zero mention of journalism.
The Ford government intends to kill TVO’s journalism so it can double down on online learning in Ontario classrooms and other profit-making schemes.
Governments need to get back to investing in our publicly funded universities and colleges. Colleges and universities are broke from government underfunding and are turning to foreign students to fill the gap.
Provinces (especially the Ford government in Ontario) changed the laws, letting private colleges (and private satellite colleges tied to public colleges) run amok, scamming foreign students and benefiting the companies that want to turn our education system into a cash cow.
We should have a robust public education system that is attracting foreign students and providing them with the same quality of education available to domestic students. The players that look at our education system and see $$$ signs need to go.
This episode of Wag the Doug provides decent background about how the Ford government’s legislative changes and underfunding of public colleges led them to partner with private institutes to juice the number of foreign students for more cash.
Federal government clarifies the CRA won’t collect ‘any portion’ of a non-resident landlord’s unpaid taxes from tenants (www.thestar.com)
Sesame Street Workshop Writers Vote Unanimously - 100% - to Authorize Strike Action, if Necessary (www.wgaeast.org)
Sportswear owner fired employees after they vote to join union, ordered to reinstate employees and pay back wages, instead shut down business and reopened same business under new name (wisconsinexaminer.com)
Foreign landlord fails to pay taxes, CRA goes after tenant (www.theglobeandmail.com)
Tesla Owner Calls Police on Rivian Driver Using Supercharger (www.pcmag.com)
The encounter between a Rivian driver and uninformed Tesla owner highlights 'a need for better education and communication within the EV community,' the Rivian driver says.
Did you also watch Téléfrancais in school? (youtube.com)
These phrases were stuck in my head today so I looked for the video...
Stubbornly high US inflation grew stronger than expected in March , vaulting to a 3.5% increase from last year (www.cnn.com)
Wyrmspan - First Impressions
It’s a fun, more complex, dragon-themed game built on the foundations of Wingspan — familiar, but very different....
Staffers who left Ford government over Greenbelt scandal got exit packages: sources (www.thetrillium.ca)
From the article:...
Toronto’s Black Bull Tavern closing after nearly 200 years (www.thestar.com)
Michigan GOP legislator posted about ‘illegal invaders’ at Detroit airport. It was Gonzaga’s March Madness team (www.cnn.com)
Tell me your government is clueless about students and schools without actually telling me (lemm.ee)
From this paywalled article in The Trillium: thetrillium.ca/…/i-disagree-with-them-ford-says-o…
Doug Ford's government is to blame for Ontario's teacher recruitment and retention crisis, unions charge (www.thestar.com)
Terraforming Mars team defends AI use as Kickstarter hits $1.3 million (www.polygon.com)
‘It’s too powerful a technology’
Toronto Star owner cutting 600 jobs at regional papers, seeking bankruptcy protection for unit (www.cbc.ca)
"Beyond being enthusiastic about organising, Gen Z is also just plain good at it." (www.bbc.com)
“They grew up being told they were going to be better off than their parents. The fact is, they struggled to find jobs, and the jobs they found were not as good as their parents’. They and the generations that follow them are saddled with college debt. They’re looking at a world where they wonder if they should even have...
Ask your MPP to #FundTVOLikeItMatters (actionnetwork.org)
CMG members at TVO are asking their employer and the government for fair wages, and are saying “NO” to normalizing precarious work at your provincial public broadcaster.
Want to ease Canada’s housing crisis? Let’s start by being responsible about international student visas (www.theglobeandmail.com)
Granting an ever-growing number of student visas to people we know will struggle to find housing is unethical at best and fraudulent at worst....