Castlepollard Community College extension gets the go ahead
1 April 2021
Damien English, Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Wayne Walsh, Principal of Castlepollard Community College, and Cllr. Frank McDermott, all welcomed the news last week that the extension at Castlepollard Community College is to go ahead.
There was great news for Castlepollard on Tuesday of last week, 23 March, when the Government announced that Castlepollard Community College, was one of a number of schools in the country, to get the green light to proceed with a new extension.
Castlepollard Community School has been accepted as one of the 20 schools nationally under the School’s Building Programme to get a major extension to the existing school to accommodate the growing number of pupils. The extension includes several new classrooms, Special Educational Needs base, new specialist rooms for subjects like music, IT and Art and a new sports hall with fitness suite.
A new film is hoping to answer the question of whether life itself should be subsidized. Directors Sean Blacknell and Wayne Walsh have produced a new documentary “The Cost of Living” which discusses the mental and physical burden placed on those with unstable incomes and whether basic income is the right remedy.
The film interviews many prominent basic income scholars, such as Guy Standing and Barb Jacobson. It is focused on the issues specifically facing the United Kingdom, where there are “3.5 million people in ‘in-work poverty.’” With the arrival of COVID-19, the film-makers argue the discussion about basic income is even more pertinent than ever.
iPolitics By Kelsey Johnson. Published on Dec 14, 2020 11:15am A grocery store in Oshawa. Steve Russell/Toronto Star
Here’s today’s agriculture news.
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The director of Canada’s Nutrition North program says emergency COVID-19 federal food assistance has helped boost access to food in remote northern communities – but the crisis has also revealed the true degree of food insecurity many in Nunavut face.
Wayne Walsh, who oversees the Nutrition North program, told the parliamentary standing committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs on Dec. 8. that women and children are often most affected by food insecurity in the North. “Children and women bear the brunt of food insecurity in the North,” he said. “The number one cause of food insecurity is poverty. If poverty was addressed then food security would be addressed.” CBC News reports.
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A file photo from May 2018. Fresh fruit are some of the most expensive items in Nunavut. A Nutrition North representative says the cost of flour after subsidies is now comparable to southern Canadian prices, because of COVID-19 funding. (Nick Murray/CBC News)
Relief funding for the COVID-19 pandemic has been effective in increasing access to food in remote northern communities but it s also revealed the true extent of food insecurity that Nunavut households face.
Because many communities are using pandemic relief funds to give out food hampers during isolation and school closures, food sales have increased in the territory, said Wayne Walsh, who oversees the Nutrition North program, during a parliamentary Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs on Dec. 8.