Good news from Queen’s Park yesterday, with the Liberal government tabling the Accepting Schools Act, intended to prevent bullying in Ontario schools. The move was sparked in part by several bullying-related teen suicides across the country, including that of Mitchell Wilson, a Pickering boy who killed himself in September after being violently mugged by another [...]

“If 50 years from now we still have black-centric schools, we will have failed abysmally, but for a period of time I’m willing to listen to people saying, ‘We need your help.’” —TDSB Trustee Sheila Ward (Toronto Centre-Rosedale), responding to the Board’s decision, last night, to approve the creation of an Africentric high school in [...]

In a few hours, Chris Glover will explain to his fellow TDSB trustees why he’s recommending that they revert to the pre-democratic practice of royal appointment to deal with two vacant positions on the board. He’ll be joking. Mostly. Here is an excerpt from a motion [PDF] by Glover. It’s on tonight’s school board agenda. [...]

   Residents of Ward 9, York Centre, and the Toronto District School Board’s Ward 4 will be back at the polls sooner than they expected. The Globe is reporting that a judge has deemed the results of last October’s municipal election invalid due to “irregularities” in the voters lists, specifically because of forms allowing last-minute [...]

Members of the Vaughan Road GSA. Photo by Nick Kozak/Torontoist. In solidarity with students eager to turn their schools into safe spaces for people of all sexual orientations, members of the Toronto District School Board unanimously passed a motion at their meeting last night, declaring the Board itself to be a Gay-Straight Alliance. The move [...]

Marta, centre, discussing the Vaughan Road Academy GSA. “My Italian grandparents don’t get it,” Marta announces. And, in truth, it might seem hard to understand why this group of students at Vaughan Road Academy devotes a great deal of time—every Thursday’s lunch, plus extra hours for programming, planning, and petitioning—to combat homophobia in their high [...]

Across Toronto, a three-sided war is raging between the City, the Toronto District School Board, and residents, over the school board’s decision to sell its surplus lands. At stake are the properties that the TDSB has left unused, which, over the years, have been adapted by local residents and transformed into important community hubs. This [...]

Illustration by Kyra Kendall/Torontoist. Yesterday brought some good news for Mac users. And, believe it or not, it had nothing to do with pads, or tablets, or whatever. Last week we wrote about a brewing dispute at the Toronto District School Board over the future of Mac computers in school computer labs. Lee Stem, general [...]

The Toronto of 2020 will be a different, but recognizable place. Between now and 2020, immigration will have made the world’s most multicultural city even more diverse, new building projects will have altered the city’s landscape, and Transit City will have broken down many of the city’s spatial barriers.

Behind the scenes, we at Torontoist are known to pedantically and tediously debate the use of em dashes—like these—and the proper form of an ellipsis (technically, “…” is more correct than “…” See? Tedious!). While we’re fans of splitting grammatical hairs and clearly make our own share of errors from time to time, it’s hardly [...]

Dalton McGuinty has said no to calls from health officials in London Ontario to raise the legal drinking age in Ontario to 21. Drinking at 19 has become a rite of passage for young people, like acquiring a driver’s licence or genital warts. Three months after the Toronto District School Board voted to open an [...]