AGO seeks volunteers to read the names of children commemorated in artist/activist Ai Weiwei’s works
TORONTO — The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) will honour the youngest victims of the devastating 2008 earthquake in China’s Sichuan province by holding a live tribute on the opening weekend of its summer exhibition Ai Weiwei: According to What? The Gallery invites community members who can read Chinese and speak any Chinese dialect to participate in a live version of Ai Weiwei’s voice recording Remembrance (2010), which names the thousands of schoolchildren who perished in the disaster on May 12, 2008.
OTTAWA, Feb. 22, 2013 /CNW/ - Today, to the delight of hundreds of thousands of Ontario secondary students, the Ontario Secondary Schools' Teachers' Federation voted in favour of ending the six month withdrawal of extra-curricular activities.
For every complex problem there is a solution that is clear, simple and wrong
By Ben Levin, Troy Media
TORONTO, ON - Evidence routinely demonstrates that strong education systems help build better health and social cohesion. To achieve strong school systems, one of the truisms of education now widely cited around the world is the critical importance of teachers. “The quality of a system,” an influential McKinsey report noted a few years ago, “cannot exceed the quality of the people in it.”