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Canadians using Twitter/X are being bombarded by misleading right-wing posts designed to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish the reputation of Mark Carney.

The FT’s analysis finds a growing volume of that misinformation is coming not from Russia or China, but the United States.

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Remember the Catholic school board that spent 190K on a trip for board members to Italy? They bought a bunch of Vatican art for their schools, had some fancy lunches, etc. on our dime. Another board spent 40K on themselves for a "staff retreat" to the Sky Dome. This story's about the province "stepping in."
Boards in question are:
Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board - the Italy trip
& Thames Valley District School Board in London - sky dome visit

They've appointed a supervisor for Thames Valley (the "takes control" part of the headline), and simply asked Norfolk to pay back most of the money afaik. Here's the bit that I think bears watching:

The province is also launching investigations at the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, the Toronto Catholic District School Board and the Toronto District School Board over ongoing financial deficits and spending concerns.

Calandra said all three have failed to address ongoing, years-long deficits with no plan to return the books to the black.

"Not to sound like a big tough guy, but to be very clear, the resources that we provide, we're providing record level of funding. We expect that to be made available to teachers so that they can give our students the ultimate ability to succeed."

[...] The province is leaving the door open to taking control of all three boards, depending on what the probes reveal.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250424145609/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-school-board-investigation-1.7516584

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Measles has spread to 109 more people in Ontario over the last week, bringing the province’s total cases to 925 since an outbreak began in October.

Sixty-nine people have required hospitalization – that’s eight more than last week – including four in intensive care.

Measles is still predominantly infecting unvaccinated infants, children and adolescents in southwestern Ontario.

Cases in Alberta have also been climbing since March, with 83 confirmed as of Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Quebec is on the verge of declaring its outbreak over if no new infections are reported by Saturday.

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