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Hennessy’s Index: Working Women

Trish Hennessy, Director CCPA Ontario Office
Tags: equity, gender, work

  86 Percentage of women in Canada who say their paid work provides required income to meet the household’s bottom line. Source 29 Percentage of Canadian women considered the primary breadwinner in 2003 – up from 11 per cent in 1967. Source 30% The shortfall between what primary breadwinner wives earned in 2003 compared to [...]

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Strengthen Civic Engagement: Register Now with Student Vote

by Vivian McCaffrey
May 13, 2013
Categories: Blog, Features
Tags: democracy, education, elections, Student Vote

ETFO members have experienced a tumultuous year fighting back against Bill 115, the Putting Students First Act, 2012.  We rallied against the bill because it violated fundamental democratic rights to bargain collectively.  We won considerable public support because many Ontarians understood that our fight extended beyond our own self-interest and was about broad democratic principles. [...]

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ETFO’s New Home Achieves Highest Environmental Standard

General Secretary Gene Lewis
May 6, 2013
Categories: Blog
Tags: Environment, New Building

This June, ETFO is set to make history when we move into our new home located in downtown Toronto. The brand new four-story building will serve as an outstanding model for sustainable, efficient construction in the 21st century. The ETFO office is the first new building in the city that meets the highest environmental standards [...]

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A Rock Is Lively
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A Rock Is Lively

By Dianna Hutts Aston, Illustrated by Sylvia Long Chronicle Books, 2012 40 pages, $18.99 (hardcover)

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Reviewed by Karen Brunner-Gilmore

Tags: minerals, rocks

What are rocks? How are they created? How are they used in our daily lives? What incredible beauty is hidden inside some rocks? All these questions (and more) are answered in A Rock Is Lively, from Dianna Hutts Aston and Sylvia Long, the author and illustrator team who created A Butterfly Is Patient and A [...]

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Prezi Presentation Review

Jeffrey MacCormack
Apr 25, 2013
Categories: Blog, Technology
Tags: app, Digital Technology, education, Learning

Prezi is online-generated presentation software. You don’t actually buy the program or download it. You do your work online and view it off the browser. Think PowerPoint, but rather than shifting robotically through static slides, Prezi presentations swoosh and zoom around a larger mural. As if a graphic organizer and a roller coaster got married [...]

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