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Even with power-hungry air conditioners turned off for the season, small business owners are sweating over hydro bills that spiked sharply during the first six months of the now- deregulated electricity market.
All the monkeys aren’t in the zoo. Some spend most of their lives teaching intellectually gifted children. Some hide out in bars, hosting karaoke nights and encouraging shy souls to set their spirits free on stage. Some teach the elderly mental aerobics. Or perhaps some do nothing but children's sporting events.
Your Oct. 11 editorial blames the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board for cutting special education programs and placing many special needs students in regular classrooms without appropriate support. It also says that the board betrayed a promise not to make cuts this year.
It’s been about three years now since Mike Harris’s government developed a tough new curriculum for Ontario students.