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Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce announced a series of expansions to his government’s back-to-school plan in September at a news convention Thursday afternoon. From now on, for the only time, school forums will have access to about $500 million in the reserve budget – “unspent taxpayer money,” Lecce said – to meet local back-to-school priorities with a focus on expanding schools. physical estrangement capacity.
Lecce later clarified that schools will use their own “hard day funds” to rent more areas or rent more educators and staff to create smaller classrooms.
A further $50 million is being invested for rapid updates of ventilation and CVC systems in classrooms, and Lecce noted that “medical experts have the importance of flow and air quality under pressure.”
With regard to distance education, the Minister issued a directive to school forums on Thursday that provided that students in grades 1 through 12 would gain advantages from live and synchronous learning with an instructor and peers for at least 75% of the school day.
“We would have gone a hundred consistent with the penny, but we noticed that unions have expressed considerations about leaving the day of 300 minutes for any individual time,” Lecce said, noting that the remaining 25% of the day would be used for individual or small organization support.
The province is also offering $18 million to school forums to rent “directors and aid staff committed exclusively to e-learning,” Lecce said. “Your unique purpose will be to maximize your child’s ability to succeed and create a detail of duty so that he has a point of contact, so those young people remain safe and assisted at all times.”
In addition to previous commitments, school forums will now be able to access approximately $900 million in a unique and specific investment to return to school, Lecce said.
“We are doing everything we can, investing more and constantly adding fitness and protection measures to our prevention levels. And day by day, we pay attention to the most productive doctors in this province.
Ontario’s largest teacher unions issued a letter to provincial ministers thursday, saying their back-to-school plan violated Ontario’s Occupational Safety and Health Act and “exposes our members to dangers that threaten only their physical condition and lives, but at least the fitness and lives of their scholars and their families.”
When asked about the letter at his press convention on Thursday, Lecce reaffirmed his in the back-to-school assignment and rejected the unions.
Ontario’s medical director of health, Dr. David Williams, also said that “at this time, if there is a risk, it would propose the opening of schools.”
“We are in a much safer position than we were in early March.”
National
Early Thursday, the federal government announced that it redirected $31 million from some other infrastructure program to fund a new two-year initiative that supports small local projects that help communities adapt to the COVID-19 era.
The federal government is redistributing a portion of the remaining budget for the Smart Cities Challenge (a Pan-Canadian festival in which communities must submit allocation proposals in the hope of obtaining federal funds) to create a new Healthy Communities of Canada initiative.
According to Infrastructure Canada.
Nonprofits will be invited to apply for funding, and cities and network organizations will be required to request access to those project budgets from the nonprofit.
“I was surprised to see that Canadians across the country are proposing smart answers to the problems of the pandemic,” Said Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna as she delivered the new initiative Thursday. “And that’s why we’re using taxpayer cash for those wonderful answers.”
Meanwhile, a national survey indicates that citizens of Ontario, Alberta and Quebec need a reduction in COVID-19 restrictions, while citizens of British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba tend to need more restrictions. The 4 Atlantic provinces sometimes say the restrictions are fair, according to the Angus Reid Institute survey.
Only 28% of Canadians surveyed the restrictions deserve to be stricter.
Local
With 10 new COVID-19s reported On Thursday, the number of assets in Ottawa is 140.
Ottawa Public Health has recorded 2,679 cases shown and 264 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
Currently, 12 COVID-19 patients are hospitalized (one less than yesterday), adding one in ICU.
There are five outbreaks of viruses underway in local institutions: the Villa Marconi Long Term Care Home (a staff case), the Carling Family Shelter (five cases among consumer families), foster farm community center Summer Camp (a staff case), a home day care in Mcraft Ottawa (one for a child) and the Growing Together La Maisonnée nursery (four employee cases). Four outbreaks have been declared in the last two days.
Ottawa fitness officials aim to have new COVID-19 test features in a driving service and an eastern assessment center in a few weeks.
In an interview with the magazine, Dr. Alan Forster, vice president of innovation and quality at Ottawa Hospital, said planners were also extending hours, operating days and the number of workers at existing centers to increase the number of tests.
In addition, the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board is giving parents two more days to send their children back to school or opt for online learning in September. The deadline for completing an attendance confirmation form has been extended from Friday, August 16 to midnight.
On Wednesday, the OCDSB said it had won about 35,000 completed participation forms. The council’s student population is estimated at about 72,000 students.
Meanwhile, some parents in Ottawa are furious that the best academics returning to school this fall will end up getting the most out of their online courses. The province’s hybrid secondary education plan requires academics to complete “in person” education for part of the time and the rest end up reading online at home.
But plans published through Ottawa’s two English-language school forums require academics to spend only 25% of their time in schools, which would only be open in the morning.
Province
At his press conference, Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford revealed that his government has recovered around the concept of Younger Ontario academics dressing in facial protectors when they return to elegance in September.
“I know we have a few weeks left, but I just need to get a recommendation from the exercise table on the face screens for the younger ones,” Ford said.
The Prime Minister made his presentation from Windsor, where he announced a $30 million investment in the Connecting Links program to build or modernize local roads and bridges. The province is also expanding investment for bridge projects from $3 million to $5 million according to the project.
“This increase in investment will help protect local bridges while reducing pressure on local budgets, especially when municipal budgets are facing increasing pressure from COVID-19,” said Deputy Transport Minister Kinga Surma.
Ontario reported 78 new CASES of COVID-19 on Thursday, however, this figure excludes knowledge of the case from the Toronto Office of Public Health and underestimates the number of actual cases.
“The updated figures for Toronto’s CORES Public Health formula were not available,” Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott said.
At a press conference Thursday, Dr. David Williams, the province’s leading medical officer, estimated that Thursday’s general provincial issue would probably be closer to 95 because Toronto’s public health knowledge was not included.
“I think we could be closer to 95,” Williams said. “I don’t think we’re above 100, that’s the good news.”
According to the province, Ottawa is the only region of public fitness workplaces in eastern Ontario to register new infections, with 10 COVID-19 cases reported On Thursday.
The number of active instances in the province is 891, of which 43 are hospitalized for the disease. Twenty other people are under intensive care and ten are on a ventilator.
Quebec
The most recent figures from the National Institute of Public Health of Quebec show 104 new instances in the last 24 hours, bringing the total province to 60,917.
The death toll increased from six to 5,715.
Although hospitalizations decreased from two to 149 in total, the number of patients in intensive care due to the virus increased from 3 to 123.
-With Canadian and postmedia press files
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