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Podcast: Closer Look
Episode: Is the Ford government actually going to scrap school trustees?
Description: As of today, the Ford government has taken control of six school boards across the province — using words like “incompetence,” “mess” and “off the rails” to describe how things were going before the province seized the wheel.The passage of Bill 33, which came into force in November, made it even easier for Ontario to intervene. The Near North District School Board learned that lesson the hard way on Dec. 1.Now that we’ve reached 2026, an even bigger question looms: Will the Ford government scrap school trustees altogether?Education Minister Paul Calandra has made it clear he's ex...