Tuesday July 8, 2014 – 10am
Posted Jul 8, 2014 02:36:41 PM.
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10:00- Dr. Paul Cappon, former President and CEO of the Canadian Council on Learning
The federal government needs to show “courage and leadership” in working with the provinces and industry to reverse an alarming slide in the quality of Canada’s education and skills training systems, a new report says. “The fact that Canada is now falling behind many other countries in education and skills acquisition is not a crisis per se. It becomes a crisis only if we fail to act quickly and systematically to improve our performance,” says the report. The paper is harshly critical of Ottawa and the provinces for failing to acknowledge and address Canada’s weak performance in recent international assessments of education and training. Compared with their peers elsewhere in the developed world, Canadian university and college graduates rank 19th of 21 in numeracy, 18th of 21 in literacy and 14th of 18 in problem-solving skills, according to a recent assessment by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
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10:30- Hayley Zimak, 570News Anchor and Reporter
Comic publisher blocks Superman logo on statue of murdered Toronto boy
Statue of Jeffrey Baldwin, who starved to death in his grandparents’ care, was to feature the costume he loved. Before he died of starvation at the hands of his grandparents, Jeffrey Baldwin dreamed of being just like Superman. Even in death, his wish will not come true. DC Entertainment has refused to allow the Superman logo to be included on a memorial statue of the five-year-old murder victim that is currently being constructed.
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