MONTREAL A Quebec mother is accusing a school of expelling her autistic son because of the colour of his skin. Marie Isme said her 16-year-old son Brandon-Lee Paris, who is non-verbal, has attended Deux Montagne s L ecole des erables du centre de services scolaire de la Seignerie-des-Milles-Illes for years. The school said they could no longer accommodate him after he developed an obsession with cutting his fingertips and ran away from the school once. But Isme said that s not the truth. “I feel that my son has been discriminated against because of his height, his race,” she said. “They are scared of him.”
‘Energy poverty’ hits families: survey
By Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter
More than 60 percent of disadvantaged families have struggled to afford water and electricity, a survey released on Tuesday showed.
The survey, conducted by the Taiwan Fund for Children and Families from March 25 to April 30, found that 61.2 percent of disadvantaged families have at some point been unable to pay their water and electricity bills, with 35.5 percent of those surveyed living in so-called “energy poverty,” spending more than 10 percent of their household income on utilities, the fund said.
The survey found that 36.5 percent of disadvantaged families did not have a desk at home, 9.6 percent did not have a bed and 33.5 percent said that their refrigerator had been in use for more than 10 years, the fund said.
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