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Masks to stay optionally available in Ontario school rooms subsequent yr, Ministry of Schooling says

Facemasks will stay optionally available in Ontario colleges when college students return to the classroom this fall, the Ministry of Schooling says.

In a press release, a spokesperson for Minister of Schooling Stephen Lecce mentioned he was following “the knowledgeable recommendation of Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Well being.”

The province lifted Ontario’s masks mandate in colleges on March 21, permitting college students to determine whether or not they wished to put on a masks indoors. The transfer got here as a part of a broader easing of measures, significantly masks necessities, through the spring.

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Alberta authorities will assist pay to relocate 500 Athabasca College workers: Superior Schooling minister

Alberta’s Superior Schooling minister says he’s keen to assist Athabasca College with no matter it needs — together with cash — to relocate 500 workers to the small city that is the college’s namesake, however says the college has not stepped up.

“I have been provided to supply any form of help that the college wants. They have not requested for any,” Demetrios Nicolaides mentioned in a weekend interview.

Nicolaides mentioned his division beforehand requested the college for a concrete plan by June 30 to develop the bodily presence of the college within the city of two,800.

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Affected person Centricity because the Way forward for Digital Well being Administration

Digital well being is an all-encompassing time period that refers back to the care offered via eHealth and mHealth via advances in computing sciences.

Challenges or Gaps in Conventional Care

Main technological challenges confronted by the healthcare trade have gotten to do with information processing, cybersecurity, and offering a user-friendly expertise. Nevertheless, developments in every of those fields have confirmed to be gainful, and can proceed to take action. Our focus right here has extra to do with the consumer expertise side of digital well being administration.

There are fairly numerous digital well being care suppliers, reasonably, platforms that avail

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Union seeks 11.7% increase for schooling employees in proposal

TORONTO — A union representing Ontario schooling employees has requested the province for annual wage will increase of 11.7 per cent – ​​or $3.25 per hour – as the 2 sides hash out a brand new collective settlement.

The Canadian Union of Public Workers – which represents 55,000 employees together with early childhood educators, college administration employees, bus drivers and custodians – shared a abstract of bargaining proposals it submitted Tuesday as negotiations proceed forward of present contracts expiring on the finish of this month.

The union argued employees’ wages have been restricted during the last decade and inflation is

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McKinley Senior High engineering class makes musical dreams come true

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Each year, the career technical education pre-engineering students at McKinley Senior High School learn how to design and print 3D projects from instructor Chad Weaver.

In the past, students in the class have developed projects ranging from prosthetic legs to welding devices, but their recent project was especially memorable because it made a fellow student’s music dreams become a reality.

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George Santos Grilled By Tulsi Gabbard On Fox News

Republican George Santos faced hostility on Fox News over the lies he told to get elected to Congress.

The New York Rep.-elect was admitted in a series of interviews Monday that he lied about his job experience, college education and heritage. He claimed during his campaign that he had worked for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs and that he had a degree from Baruch College in New York, but none of those organizations had records of that. He had also called himself a “proud American Jew.” When questioned by the New York Post, he said he was Catholic and never claimed

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Claudine Gay Makes History as First Black Harvard President | News

Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Claudine Gay made her second historic first on Thursday when Harvard announced her selection as the University’s 30th president — the first person of color to hold the role.

Gay previously made history when she was appointed as the first person of color and first woman to serve in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ top post. Gay, who will succeed President Lawrence S. Bacow in July, will also be the only second woman to president over the University and the second Black woman to lead an Ivy League school, after former Brown University

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COVID-19 harmed literacy development of younger NB students: minister

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick’s Department of Education says mental wellness remains a concern as students return to class after two years of disruptions due to the pandemic.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick’s Department of Education says mental wellness remains a concern as students return to class after two years of disruptions due to the pandemic.

The 2021-22 provincial assessment results released today show about 30 per cent of students from Grade 6 to 12 felt lonely most or all of the time, while nearly 50 per cent reported spending three or more hours a day on social media.

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