LONDON, ONT. This could be an important week for parents, students and educators across Ontario, as they await word from the province on whether students will return to in-class learning before the end of the school year. If students do return, it won’t be as difficult as pulling them out of class said London parent Stacey Henry. “It’s harder to go from them being in school and being taken out. I think that makes more of a scramble.” Henry is a co-chair of the parent council at Stoney Creek Public School in London, where two of her children attend. She also has one child at a local Catholic high school, and another in day care.
May 25, 2021 | 8:47 AM
The Ontario government will be investing $2 billion to support local students’ mental health and learning, announced last week by Monte McNaughton, MPP for Lambton-Kent-Middlesex. The extra funding for the 2021-2022 school year will be provided to local school boards through the Grants for Student Needs (GSN) program. The Ontario government continues to give money to schools, as earlier this month they invested $1.6 billion in resources to protect against COVID-19 and $561 million more in ongoing investments in public education.
The funding will be allocated to school boards as follows:
· Lambton Kent District School Board: $266.8 million – an increase of $8.1 million over last year.
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Somewhere far off in another country, a hacker infiltrated a US energy company, crippling a fuel supply line that runs 5,500 miles from New York to Texas and leaving me, like others, unsure if I’d make it home from work on the gasoline left in my tank.
It is an example of the vulnerability of sole reliance on big energy.
Electric grids are the big energy equivalent of the fuel line on the power side of the energy industry. They carry electricity instead of fuel, but are subject to the same kind of far-reaching calamities because of a single point of failure. So far, we haven’t experienced massive power outages because of a cyberattack, but we have again and again because of storms, wildfires or something as simple as a tree branch falling on a wire in the wrong place.
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May 13, 2021 | 6:24 AM
Several school boards in Lambton-Kent-Middlesex will be getting $38.17 million from the Ontario and Provincial government to upgrade their schools to protect the students and staff from COVID-19.
The money is to support projects like HVAC renovations, the installation of water bottle refilling stations and reconfiguring spaces to allow for better social distancing.
MPP Monte McNaughton is happy to see the government supporting students and staff during this time, and stated that the “funding will go a long way towards replacing and repairing aging infrastructure within our schools.”
Funding will be allocated as follows:
May 13, 2021 | 3:25 PM
Several school boards in Lambton-Kent-Middlesex will be getting $38.17 million from the Ontario and Provincial government to upgrade their schools to protect the students and staff from COVID-19.
The money is to support projects like HVAC renovations, the installation of water bottle refilling stations and reconfiguring spaces to allow for better social distancing.
MPP Monte McNaughton is happy to see the government supporting students and staff during this time, and stated that the “funding will go a long way towards replacing and repairing aging infrastructure within our schools.”
Funding will be allocated as follows:
· Lambton Kent District School Board – $6,288,184