The TDSB is ahead of other boards in building a new kind of school for dense urban environments. With more Toronto families living in towering condos, the Toronto District School Board is planning to build schools to serve them. The board is taking the province up on its call for “podium” schools, which are integrated into […]
Canadian astrophysicist Louise Edwards is used to answering some of the universe’s toughest questions. But at the moment she’s trying to answer this one: How many Canadian Black astronomers does she know? Edwards, an associate professor in California Polytechnic State University’s physics department, is on a Zoom call with CBC while sitting in a friend’s brightly lit shed near […]
Session 1 of the Nubian Book Club 2024 that was held on Thursday, July 4th, 2024 featured a discussion on the theme “Solidarity for Collective Liberation” by keynote speakers Dr. Vidya Shah (an Associate Professor at Faculty of Education at York University) and Dr. Camille Logan (an Associate Director, School, Curriculum and Instruction, Student and Community Engagement at Peel District School Board). The poem discussed during the session was “Wanna be an ally?”
Three York Region hospitals will be adding pronouns into their electronic health records in an effort to improve care for LGBTQ2S+ people…