Mario and Trish Figueroa say their difficult decision to close Queenston Stationery — and with it downtown Stoney Creek’s Canada Post outlet — ultimately boiled down to simple economics.
Extracurricular sports and clubs must be on offer when Ontario students return to class in the fall, Education Minister Stephen Lecce insists, while warning that parents have “little tolerance” for disruptions to schooling after all of the worry and uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cher Obediah says she kept her mouth shut when her abusive ex-partner used to yell at her because she accepted “to a fault” that his outbursts were rooted in his intergenerational trauma from the residential school system.
Former Hamilton public school board chair Todd White says he’s seeking to regain the trustee seat he lost to Carole Paikin Miller in the 2018 municipal election because he’s troubled by the past term’s succession of controversies.
School-based vaccination clinics are running throughout the summer to help an estimated 86,000 Toronto teens catch up on shots for HPV, Hepatitis B and meningococcal disease.