A new website called “VoteAgainstWoke.ca” is offering Ontarians a list of “non-woke” candidates who are running in the upcoming school board trustee elections on Oct. 24. “The only objective of this project is to unseat woke trustees,” said the website’s anonymous founder, who goes by the name Matt, in an email to The Epoch Times. “Any…

An Ontario school board trustee who was banned from attending all meetings between June and September 2022 is challenging the board’s ban in court along with running for reelection this fall. Mike Ramsay, a trustee of over 30 years from the Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB), said in a statement that he has filed…

Nominations close on Aug. 19 for the Ontario school board trustee elections, but many school districts are finding themselves short of candidates. Some trustees and early-childhood educators say a lack of respect for the position and a heated political climate within the province’s school boards are serving as deterrents both to existing trustees seeking re-election and to newcomers…

Commentary Ontario school trustees have been engaged in heated debates in the last few weeks. Some boards have even called extra meetings to address the matter. One might think that trustees were responding to the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s recent “Right to Read” report, which was a devastating critique of the ineffective reading strategies currently…