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As seen in: The Toronto Star, NOW Toronto, The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, ON), The Peterborough Examiner, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, St. Catharines Standard, Welland Tribune, The Grind Magazine
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Ontario’s Schools Don’t Need a Staples Card, They Need to Be Properly Funded

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By Nigel Barriffe
| The Grind Magazine
In August, we learned that Staples had been selected as the vendor for the Ford government’s new Classroom Supplies Fund, through which elementary homeroom teachers will receive $750 to purchase classroom supplies. Teachers need classroom resources. There is no question about that. For years, educators have spent hundreds — sometimes thousands — of dollars of their own money buying books, pencils, art materials, learning resources and other supplies their students’ need.
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When violence is the system speaking: What Ontario’s schools are telling us

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By Tim Scarth, Nigel Barriffe
| Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
For the past several years, violence in Ontario schools has been discussed as though it were a series of isolated incidents: a child acting out, a classroom out of control, a teacher unable to cope. The dominant response has been managerial and individualizing—more reporting requirements, more surveillance, more discipline. But violence does not emerge in a vacuum. It is produced. It accumulates. And when it becomes routine, it is often a signal that a system itself is under strain.
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Opinion | Oil executive should not be on board of teachers’ pension fund Original

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By Nigel Barriffe, Lisa J Jeffery, Betty de Groote
| The Toronto Star Verified
As working teachers depending on retirement security in a climate-safe future, we’re confused and disappointed by the Ontario Teachers’ Federation’s (OTF) announcement to appoint Alberta oil and gas executive Deborah Stein to the board of directors of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP). We’re calling on OTF, the representative of teachers in OTPP’s governance, to retract this appointment before it becomes effective on Jan. 1.
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