Education
Certain days should be reserved for reflection and mourning, like September 11 or November 11. However, for anti-Israel protesters, October 7th, which saw 1,200 Israeli civilians die in a terrorist attack, is another opportunity to protest their cause.
That was the case at Toronto Metropolitan University, formerly known as Ryerson University, when students held the first event of the so-called “week of rage” for Palestine.
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Rates of mental illness in children are rising rapidly, with psychotropic drugs being the conventional solution. The documentary “Kids on Pills” examines treatment options and the long-term impacts of medicating children.
U.S. doctors are more likely to diagnose children with conditions like bipolar disorder and prescribe multiple medications, while European doctors tend to be more conservative in their approach.
Children in the U.S. often receive cocktails of powerful psychotropic drugs that have numerous side effects and health risks, with minimal evidence of benefit in many cases.
The long-term effects of polypharmacy in children remain unclear. Some experts warn these drugs alter brain development when prescribed at young ages, causing lasting changes.
Alternative therapies like occupational therapy and family-based interventions are encouraged. As parents, you must advocate for your children and consider nondrug approaches to address behavioral issues.
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Read MoreA Canadian university wants to fill 75% of its new medical school with race and sexual orientation of candidates in mind – barring people from non “equity-deserving” groups from accessing a majority of the admission offers.
On social media, some have accused the Toronto Metropolitan University’s application policy for entry into its medical program of openly discriminating against people based on identifiable differences such as race and sexual orientation.
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Read MoreThe University of Ottawa’s School of Psychology has declared that up to 67% of its initial offers for the clinical psychology doctoral program will be reserved for non-White applicants.The department introduced the new initiative in the name of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
During the application process, candidates now have the option to self-declare BIPOC status (Black, Indigenous, Person of colour).
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Read MoreArizona State University (ASU) is a public school and therefore undisputed subject to the US Constitution’s free speech rules. Yet a new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) demonstrates that it was prominently involved in working with, and on behalf of the US government. To affect free speech.
That would be a blatant example of what Congress is investigating and what the critics are calling Big Tech-(Big) Government collusion, given that the target of the “collaboration” the university was involved in was online “disinformation.”
The thing to remember when talking about this collusion is that the current White House had enough wits about it to never make a “beeline” reaching the end result of censorship. From what is known from the congressional probe and the Twitter Files alone, this was always instead a meandering effort that included many seemingly intermediary and/or legitimate actors.
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Read MoreAt the end of September, the education minister sent a memo to all Ontario school boards warning them to keep politics out of their schools on Oct. 7.
The memo indicated that classrooms should focus on learning, not politics and that school-related activities should “never be used as vehicles for political protests” that contain inflammatory, discriminatory and hateful content.
Obviously some schools did not read, or ignored the memo.
At Scarborough’s Winston Ch
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Read MoreWokeness has found its way into medical school admissions in Toronto.
The Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) School of Medicine will be reserving 75% of its spots for marginalized communities and will be allowing certain applicants to be considered if they are below the minimum required GPA.
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Read MoreWayne Hannan’s time as a volunteer Scouts Canada leader spans nearly 70 years, 12 prime ministers, countless sessions on safe seafaring — and a recent court action he took against the organization because it’s been an anchor in his life and he’d like it to stay that way.
“It just makes me happy,” the 86-year-old said last week inside his lawyer’s office in west Ottawa, a paddle inscribed with his name and other scouting honours laid out on a table.
‘Resistance to program adaptation’
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Read MoreThe Report Card on Alberta’s High Schools 2024 ranks 292 public, Catholic, independent and charter secondary schools based on eight academic indicators generated from Grade 12 provincewide testing, grade-to-grade transition and graduation rates.
The Report Card offers parents information they can’t easily get anywhere else, about how schools perform over time and how they compare to other schools in Alberta.
The Report Card collects a variety of relevant, objective indicators of school performance into one, easily accessible public document so that anyone can analyze and compare the performance of individual schools. By doing so, the Report Card assists parents when they choose a school for their children and encourages and assists all those seeking to improve their schools.
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Read MoreThe ban has been compared to Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution with pupils forced to ‘conform to the tyranny of woke ideology’
British schoolchildren are set to have “problematic” words like “immigration” and “homosexuality” removed from papers, while history teachers should avoid the term “medieval”, under new plans from woke exam bosses.
Exam boards across the country have hollowed out so-called “outdated terminology” and are “decolonising” syllabuses in a new inclusivity drive – with one, Edexcel, labelling a series of words, including “immigration”, “slave”, “native Indian” and “gypsy”, as “problematic”.
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