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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: ‘Erodes the public trust’: Elected officials react to TDSB field trip rally with anti-Israel chants
Description: Ontario Premier Doug Ford has blasted the Toronto District School Board for allowing some teachers to “indoctrinate” students with anti-Israel chants during a recent field trip that was ostensibly a learning event about justice for Canada’s Indigenous people. :"It's disgusting," Ford told reporters on Monday. Meanwhile, Ford’s education minister, Jill Dunlop, also slammed what she called “activist” public school teachers, who she said compromised student safety and breached the trust of the parents who had signed permission forms.
The event in question involved 15 public schools, which brought students to the annual Grassy Narrows River Run on Sept. 18. The rally an...