Category: Focus

Lindsay Moir trained to be a travel guide when he retired from the Ministry of Education in 1997. He had been with the ministry for 31 years in various jobs dealing with education for students with special needs, and it was time for something different. But Moir never got around to his retirement plans. Parents of children with special needs kept calling him for help when their kids got into trouble at school.

Ontario is the only province in Canada that has a zero-tolerance school policy, or province-wide criteria for suspensions and expulsions. Here is a brief look at what other provinces are doing with regard to school safety.

Milka Gebrekiduce is a thoughtful little girl. The Grade 2 student wears a brilliant pink sweater and twirls one of her many braids around her finger. Her brown eyes grow a bit more serious as she recalls a painful memory: she hurt her tooth last year after being knocked down by an older boy running across the playground.

Edmonton’s bustling arts district sits in the heart of the downtown. Ottawa could learn from Edmonton’s example, in the way it has developed and promoted its arts district . . .