Get ready Toronto, it’s going to get a bit chilly! Environment Canada has set out a severe winter waning for today and Friday. The city of Toronto will experience significant snowfall from 15 to 25 cm for the next two days. The storm has spread into Southern Ontario from Michigan. As the evening progresses, the [...]
There's a hunger to increase the amount of breakfast and food programs in Scarborough schools, a hunger that can't be met because of lack of funding. The Toronto Partners of Student Nutrition placed a moratorium on division of the municipal and provincial funding, funnelling funding into existing breakfast and food programs in schools and refusing any new applicants.
The Toronto Sports Leadership Program celebrated its most recent graduating class earlier this month. But each graduate's personal success is only part of the story, says Ann Doggett, a city community recreation supervisor involved in the program, which provides opportunities through sport to at-risk youth.
February is often known as the month of love, but not for everyone. For some people, February is psychology month.
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“I think this is a very simple but vital alternative solution to a problem,” said TCDSB trustee Peter Jakovcic.
Two North York elementary schools have been left in limbo for nearly four years while a decision to close one and move its students to the other has yet to be implemented.
The Toronto public and Catholic school boards want this year’s Christmas break to start later. The boards are seeking the provincial government’s approval to make Dec. 23 the last day of school for 2011. Students would return Jan. 9 after a two-week period. Currently, the school boards have Dec. 16 and Jan. 2 as the last and first days.
Ninety schools in the Toronto District School Board are getting ready to welcome kindergartners for full-day classes this fall. Seventy-one of those schools, including 30 in Scarborough, and another 50 in the Toronto Catholic District School Board offer the program already.
Scarborough high schools have begun an anti-water bottle campaign this month. Water should be a basic human right, said local high school students, and not just for those who can afford bottled water.
Scarborough News Toronto Votes 2010
A race so close it was almost a tie threw a little excitement into an otherwise uneventful election for Scarborough’s Catholic school board trustees
