In Ontario, as I am sure is the same in many other places, we are in a quandary at the high school level. The ministry of education highly encourages the use of primary documents. Teachers also want to prepare students for post secondary schooling where the expectation is that they use ...
Toronto criminal lawyer Joseph Neuberger is one of four lawyers involved in a murder case to tell the Globe and Mail that the Ontario attorney general’s department made their clients choose between a preliminary hearing and the right to a timely trial. Prosecutors “are under orders to prefer ...
The Archives Association of Ontario has designated this week, April 5th to 9th, as Archives Awareness Week in Ontario. It is a week for those of us in the archival field to share with the public some of the amazing items we are privileged to work with on a daily basis. This year, ...
Angela’s Glacierwas inspired by the author’s friend who grew up in Northern Ontario and emigrated to Iceland in 2011. It’s a story of home, growing up and discovering what’s most important to you. It’s told through lyrical text and magnificent illustrations that make you want to visi...
ANYTHING BUT WHITE. As far as this boy is concerned, “hillbillies” and their families built much of rural North America into pleasant liveable areas, keeping the green. I use the term with TOTAL RESPECT. Hence there is SOLID hope in these Minden Hills of Haliburton County, Ontario, CANADA...
Working Together for Literacy Success Winner: Peel District School Board During the start of a recent school year, the Peel District School Board was faced with a dilemma: The standardized test scores of students in their Ontario, Canada, town were surpassed by other dis- tricts in the provinc...
In 1871, Ontario first instituted free and compulsory public schooling. A year later, B.C. established non-sectarian schools. For more than 150 years, reading, writing and arithmetic has been a cornerstone of our society. Educating our children is a responsibility we assume, for the bettermen...
as her landscape paintings were shown across international venues including the Tate Gallery in London in 1938 and the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Her works now largely remain in her home country at institutions including the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Royal Museum of British Columbia.” ...
Photo 20: Cull Drain Bridge near Sarnia, Ontario, Canada Now that you had the chance to get a closer look at the pictures in the running, it’s your turn to vote. Click on the window below and vote for your favorite candidates. You can vote for more than one candidate. The winners ...
Allam Date and place of birth: January 8, 1914 in Cairo, EGYPT Citizenship: Egyptian /Canadian Address: 73 Road 9, Maadi, Cairo, Egypt /47 Jenny Wrenway, North York, Ontario M2H 2Y8, Canada Telephone: 202-351-9153 (Cairo) /1-416-494-3960 (Canada) Fax: 202-350-466 (Cairo) /1-...