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Aspiring educator frustrated in attempt to help fill substitute shortages
Last Modified: 9:25 AM CST Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021 | Updates
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Jonathan McPhail, an aspiring teacher, is an adult student and is applying to the U of W’s post-grad teacher program.
Jonathan McPhail is a keen student who wants to fill substitute teacher shortages. However, he says, assignment instructions on how to do just that have been murky.
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Jonathan McPhail is a keen student who wants to fill substitute teacher shortages. However, he says, assignment instructions on how to do just that have been murky.
Storefront Manitoba appoints new Executive Directors
Storefront Manitoba appoints new Executive Directors
By Storefront Manitoba has recently welcomed Peter Sampson and Liz Wreford as its new Executive Directors.
Peter Sampson, MAA, OAA, AAA, FRAIC, is Principal Architect of Public City and a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. Educated at McGill and the University of Toronto, he is the architect of a number of award-winning shipping container projects around Winnipeg and the soon-to-be-open Crescent Drive Park Pavilion and Cornish Library.
Sampson was a partnering architect on the University of Winnipeg’s Buhler Centre on Portage Avenue. From 2001 to 2013, he taught design, technical, and research studios at the Universities of Waterloo, Toronto, and Manitoba. He has served on the Art City Board of Directors, the Canadian Architect Certification Board, and the Manitoba Association of Architects’ Council.
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Students stress over exam patchwork
Some divisions jettison finals, putting other seniors at disadvantage and turning up volume on already-amplified pandemic-era Grade 12 pressures
Last Modified: 8:54 AM CST Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021 | Updates
Kalsoom Amin is trying to muster up motivation to study for her Grade 12 math exam which is worth 20 per cent of her final grade, but she has other things on her mind.
Kalsoom Amin is trying to muster up motivation to study for her Grade 12 math exam which is worth 20 per cent of her final grade, but she has other things on her mind.
With four siblings who leave the house to go to school or work daily, Amin is well aware of how many close contacts her family has.
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New (voluntary) federal rules for banks appoint champions for aging clients, aimed at reducing financial abuse, fraud By: Joel Schlesinger
Last Modified: 9:51 AM CST Monday, Jan. 18, 2021 | Updates
A new year with a new champion… for seniors, that is.
New voluntary federal rules came into effect in 2021 for banks regarding how to enhance services for, and protect, aging clients.
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Top among those changes is that all banks have appointed a ‘seniors champion’ to ensure the new Code of Conduct for the Delivery of Banking Services to Seniors set out by the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) does what’s it’s intended to do.
Manitoba's education workforce has faced strain for months due to pandemic-related absences among teachers and educational assistants, but the province hopes a new college program will help fill the gaps.