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Education minister details anti-violence push, other plans in London speech

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Ontario’s education minister told a London audience he’s clamping down on school violence, continuing his push to restructure how school boards are governed and bringing back paper report cards. Paul Calandra spoke to London’s Macdonald Cartier Club – self-described as a grassroots movement aimed at “fostering a community of conservatives” – and members of the […]

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Post-secondary students push back amid Ontario’s OSAP overhaul

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Switching schools. Driven into debt. Dropping out. Cuts to grants from the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP), the provincial student loan program, will have devastating results on the post-secondary students, local students say. “I’m really passionate about the OSAP changes, because I wouldn’t have been able to go to university if it weren’t for OSAP,” […]