Archive 1997-2016
By Meredith Dundas
Attention students: If you’re entering Grade 9 in 1999 you will be sentenced to 40 hours of community service.
Earlier this year, Education Minister Dave Johnson announced changes to Ontario’s high school curriculum. The changes include 40 hours of mandatory community service to “promote responsible citizenship.”
By Amber Mything
There may be an interesting future ahead for the graduating class of 2003.
Or should we say graduating classes?
With the elimination of Grade 13, or Ontario Academic Courses, this year’s seventh and eighth graders will graduate from high school in the same year.
By Jennifer Tryon
City council has drowned any hopes Centretown residents had of a new Plant Pool until the turn of the millennium.
At a city council meeting held Jan. 21 the Plant Pool was on a long list of community services that city treasurer, Mona Monkman, recommended not be considered for funding until 2004.
By Karyn Pugliese
Jarrod Miller, 26, is the editor and youth co-ordinator of Native Youth Today, a national bimonthly newspaper published in Centretown. His mother is Cree, his father Saulteux. But like many of his generation, Miller is not legally native.