If you like paying for stuff, today (and all days, really) is your lucky day. Unless you don’t read the Globe and Mail, and then you should feel positively smug. But don’t, because your day of reckoning will come. Um. Anyhow, the Globe and Mail has announced that it will soon be going the way [...]

According to Woodbine racetrack operator Woodbine Entertainment Group, what better place to stick a Toronto casino and entertainment complex than…(wait for it)…Woodbine! And, according to two recent opinion polls—one commissioned by the good people at Woodbine themselves—Etobicoke is one of the top preferred sites to put the thing (y’know, the casino…thing). Should they push forward [...]

The Toronto District School Board by-election was yesterday, and we know now that the winners are Sam Sotiropoulos, an IT specialist who advocates for “traditional family values” (according to his website, whatever that means) and Harout Manougian, an electrical engineer. They’ll represent TDSB Wards 20 (Scarborough-Agincourt) and 17 (Don Valley East), respectively. Mary Hynes (a.k.a. [...]

Polls opened at 10 a.m. today for two Toronto District School Board races, in Don Valley East and Scarborough-Agincourt. Residents of TDSB Ward 17 (equivalent to City wards 33 and 34) and TDSB Ward 20 (equivalent to City wards 39 and 40) have until 8 p.m. tonight to cast their ballots. If you’re wondering about [...]

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 [...]