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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 1h

School trustees have existed since the early 1800s, serving as a link between classrooms and communities. Now, Ontario education minister Paul Calandra wants to eliminate them. Writer @scottpiatkowski.bsky.social examines what's at stake: thewalrus.ca/im-a-school-trus...

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Robert Zaichkowski @rzaichkowski.bsky.social · 3h

Dr. Carrie Mitchell's petition urging Ontario Premier Doug Ford to reverse his proposed speed camera ban now has over 5000 signatures! Please sign & share widely. #BikeTO #WalkTO #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero chng.it/Z85n4bwgLg

Have you seen this petition yet?

Reverse the decision on speed cameras in Ontario

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Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association @catholicteachers.bsky.social · 5h

📢GTA parents and teachers!

Can’t attend York Communities for Public Education's town hall tonight on #Bill33 and the government's school takeover?

Watch the event live via Facebook at 6:30 p.m.: https://bit.ly/479Jvds

Together, let's champion the real investments #OntEd students need to succeed!

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Sara @sarablue.bsky.social · 18h

I agree but I also witnessed a torontonian pronounce Etobicoke like a tourist the other day and I GASPED!

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Sara @sarablue.bsky.social · 23h

Noting that an elementary school is on that stretch just two blocks from that capture. Cities!!

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Scott Piatkowski @scottpiatkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to @thewalrus.ca for agreeing to publish my thoughts on the proposed elimination of school trustees in Ontario.

#OntEd

thewalrus.ca/im-a-school-...

I’m a School Trustee, and Doug Ford Wants to Eliminate My Job | The Walrus

What parents will lose: no one to answer their emails, fight for safe crosswalks, hold the system to account

thewalrus.ca

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Sara @sarablue.bsky.social · 1d

Not just you. Showing no results for anything I search for.

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ArtsNScience @borgalerp.bsky.social · 1d

#Ontario Min of Ed cancelled webcasts of Special Education committee meetings calling public access “a forum for politics”.
The government believes that parents advocating for their children’s needs & disability is unnecessary “politics”.

#onpoli
toronto.citynews.ca/2025/10/07/o...

Province blocking livestreams of school board committee meetings

The chair of the TDSB's special education advisory committee says the government has given no reason for arbitrarily banning live streaming.

toronto.citynews.ca

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Sara @sarablue.bsky.social · 1d

Blocking not only livestreams, but also agendas, minutes and documents from meetings. I got this response from Toronto Land Corp (TDSB subsidiary, manages $12 Billion in Toronto properties). #onted #onpoli

Hello Sara,
Thanks for your note. While Board Meetings remain open to the public at 201 - 60 St.
Clair Avenue East, we have received direction that, while under supervision, TLC agendas will not be posted or shared online, and meetings will not be webcast. Decisions from the meetings will be posted online following a review by the Ministry of Education (including the May 25 minutes that will be approved at the outset of the October 7 Board Meeting).
Best wishes,
Markus O'Brien Fehr
Head of Communications & External
Relations
416-788-3211; C: 416-451-166Z |
mo'brienfehr.tlc@tdsb.on.ca/
torontolandscorp.com

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Aurelia Cotta The Original @originalaurelia.bsky.social · 2d

Always…he is blocking every livestream of every educational meeting and report given. Hiding everything the “Supervisors” are doing to our Boards of Education. #TDSB #TCDSB #onted #onpoli

🖇️3 Sides🟥🍁🟥🪶🐦‍⬛🧷 @3sides.bsky.social · 2d

Doug Ford is more concerned about alcohol than he is about education & transparency.
toronto.citynews.ca/2025/10/07/o...

Province blocking livestreams of school board committee meetings

The chair of the TDSB's special education advisory committee says the government has given no reason for arbitrarily banning live streaming.

toronto.citynews.ca

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Norm Di Pasquale🇨🇦 @normsworld.bsky.social · 2d

Attend this session & learn what’s at stake with Ford planning to eliminate all elected School Board Trustees!
🗓️: Tuesday, October 14, 2025
🕰️: 6:30 p.m.
🗺️: Native Canadian Centre of Toronto, 16 Spadina Road
RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#topoli #onpoli #onted

Flyer for:
TOWN HALL
THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION
WHY IT MATTERS
DATE
October 14, 2025
TIME
6:30PM
LOCATION
Native Canadian Centre of Toronto
16 Spadina Road
Child minding available and open to everyone!

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 2d

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 2d

it is october 7. for two years hamas has been offering to return israel's hostages in exchange for an israeli withdrawal from gaza to which benjamin netanyahu has said "no," ignoring the hostages' families demands and prioritizing the destruction of gaza over saving the hostages lives.

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Chris Glover @chrisgloverndp.bsky.social · 2d

We’re watching the dismantling of our democracy by Ford’s Conservatives in real time.

A poll released yesterday found that a majority of Ontario parents support keeping their trustees. Ford needs to listen to parents and stop this madness.

#ONpoli #OntEd

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 2d

CityNews has learned the Ford government is restricting public access to school board committee meetings, directing boards under its supervision, including the TDSB, to block livestreams. No reason given. Marit Stiles calls it an attempt to silence parents & cut transparency. #cdnpoli

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ArtsNScience @borgalerp.bsky.social · 2d

In addition to removing elected representatives & public decisions the Minister of Education has ordered supervised school boards to stop publicly broadcasting meetings including @tdsb.on.ca Special Education committee, cutting parents off from information to advocate for their children.
#onpoli

Minister of Education has ordered supervised school boards to stop publicly broadcasting meetings including @tdsb.on.ca Special Education committee

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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Ontario's school boards have joined police chiefs, mayors and the municipal association asking the Ford government not to follow through with its plan to scrap automated speed enforcement. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1146657...

Ontario school boards join others telling Ford to reconsider speed camera ban | Globalnews.ca

The Ontario Public School Boards’ Association begged the province to 'improve and refine' the speed camera program, instead of 'dismantling a proven, life-saving safety system.'

globalnews.ca

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Norm Di Pasquale🇨🇦 @normsworld.bsky.social · 2d

A new provincial poll commissioned by @etfoeducators.bsky.social shows twice as many Ontarians want to keep elected school board trustees than eliminate them. Support for elected trustees climbs to 59% among parents with school-aged children. www.etfo.ca/news-publica... #topoli #onpoli #onted

Ontarians reject Ford government overreach: majority support elected trustees

A new province-wide poll commissioned by the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) shows that twice as many Ontarians want to keep elected school board trustees (49 per cent) as want to el...

www.etfo.ca

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 2d

Against removing speed cameras in school zones:
- School boards
- Police Chiefs
- Several dozen mayors and the Association of Municipalities of Ontario

For removing speed cameras in school zones:
- Opportunistic, transactional politicians
- Speeding drivers

#OntEd #OnPoli

Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Ontario's school boards have joined police chiefs, mayors and the municipal association asking the Ford government not to follow through with its plan to scrap automated speed enforcement. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1146657...

Ontario school boards join others telling Ford to reconsider speed camera ban | Globalnews.ca

The Ontario Public School Boards’ Association begged the province to 'improve and refine' the speed camera program, instead of 'dismantling a proven, life-saving safety system.'

globalnews.ca

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Sara @sarablue.bsky.social · 3d

Make-a-Call Monday!
Call the Minister or Education, the Premier and your MPP and let them know you’re paying attention - starving education $$$ and removing our elected representatives is not ok! #onted #onpoli

Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social · 5d

Hey hey! It’s #PhoneFriday!

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Sara @sarablue.bsky.social · 3d

Since the TDSB Supervisor is famously non-responsive we should prob also call his boss Minister of Education Paul Calandra 416-325-2600; and his boss Ford 416-325-1941 #onted #onpoli

Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 26d

Rohit Gupta, the new TDSB supervisor (and former senior staffer with Scotia Capital and Metrolinx advisor) has decided that increasing spec. ed. class sizes is good for kids.

Please get in touch with him for more info on how this benefits kids.

[email protected]
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 26d

He increases spec ed class sizes & doesn't explain it?

"while trustees' decisions usually involve extensive discussions and public documentation, only a short summary of Gupta’s first decisions as supervisor — which were made in July — have been published to the TDSB’s website."

#OntEd #OnPoli

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 3d

Parents, children rally against Ford's planned speed cam ban
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Parents, children rally against Ford's planned speed cam ban | CBC News

Concerned parents gathered with their children by a speed camera near Bloor and Dundas streets Saturday afternoon to protest a plan from Premier Doug Ford’s government to end automated speed enforceme...

www.cbc.ca

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Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social · 5d

Hey hey! It’s #PhoneFriday!

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Sara @sarablue.bsky.social · 3d

We need to call Ford and call Calandra and tell them to leave our trustees (and local democracy) alone. Tell them to address the real issue and provide adequate funding for our public schools!
416-325-1941
416-325-2600
#onted #onpoli

Scott Piatkowski @scottpiatkowski.bsky.social · 3d

“Unfortunately, it’s one of those things that if it’s gone I don’t know if you ever get it back.”

#OntEd

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Ontario’s move to eliminate school trustees could stifle parents’ concerns, critics say

In June, the province appointed supervisors to oversee the finances and operations of four school boards, largely sidelining trustees

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Scott Piatkowski @scottpiatkowski.bsky.social · 3d

“Unfortunately, it’s one of those things that if it’s gone I don’t know if you ever get it back.”

#OntEd

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Ontario’s move to eliminate school trustees could stifle parents’ concerns, critics say

In June, the province appointed supervisors to oversee the finances and operations of four school boards, largely sidelining trustees

www.theglobeandmail.com

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