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Winter, Kirk, Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns, 201804), 21 Jan 2021     Earlier in January 2021, the local public school board distributed a memo from the Ministry of Education telling parents that all teachers in Ontario had received mandatory training in how to best de

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 8 Jan 2021     Trillium Lakelands OSSTF's Colin Matthew strongly objected to the school board sharing a letter in which Minister Stephen Lecce claimed all educators received mandatory training for online teaching.

Winter, Kirk, Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns, 201804), 6 Jan 2021     Colin Matthew, president of District 15 of the Ontario Secondary School Teacher's Federation, was upset that the local public school board forwarded a letter from the Ministry of Education on to pare

Jeffords, Shawn, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 31 Aug 2020     An escalating conflict between Premier Doug Ford's government and four major teachers' unions headed to the province's labour board as the unions allege Ontario's school reopening plan violates its o

Winter, Kirk, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 22 Dec 2020     Teachers' federations in Ontario bemoaned the lack of consultation regarding school closings for the second lockdown period from December 26, 2020 to January 23 2021, citing the poorly thought out re

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 30 Nov 2020     The Ontario government launched voluntary testing of asymptomatic staff and students in high risk areas but Premier Doug Ford believed unions would not support mandatory testing even though COVID-19