By Tim Kiladze

Despite today’s announcement that 34,000 Canadian jobs were lost in December, the Elementary Teacher’s Federation of Ontario has scheduled a strike vote for February 13. The Federation has been in contract talks with the Ontario government since May of last year, and it claims that the two groups can’t find a middle ground. Negotiations are ongoing, but a strike could arise as soon as the end of March. Should it happen, parents of the province’s 800,000 elementary students could find themselves in quite the babysitting dilemma.