Education is a Right Podcast
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This podcast is produced by front line education workers to provide a forum for the voice of all those concerned with affirming the human right to education. The show will delve into all aspects of education and the working lives of those who provide it and those who rely upon it for their future.
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The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is paid into by its shareholders, active teachers employed in publicly funded K-12 schools. It has investments over $200 billion dollars and is more than fully funded at the moment. Concern has been raised about its major investments in Stone Canyon Industries Holdings Inc., a company that owns Windsor Salt
In this episode Darlene Sawchuk, president of CUPE Local 1358 reflects on the significance of the union’s victory in forcing the Ford government in Ontario to back down on using the notwithstanding clause to impose a collective agreement on 55,000 striking education workers. The presentation was recorded as part of a May Day Workers’ Roundtable
In this episode we go over Bill 98, Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act, 2023 which was tabled by the Ontario government on April 17, 2023 and is currently at committee. The legislation proposes to expand Ministerial powers over a number of areas including school boards’ assets and data as well as when curriculum reviews
In this episode, Ezio discusses the annual meeting of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association that represents K-12 teachers who work in Ontario’s publicly funded Catholic education system including significant motions that were passed, new positions that were created, the election of the OECTA executive and concerns about the need for the Ontario Teachers’ Pension
In this episode we speak with Jon Shelton, Vice-President of the American Federation of Teachers Wisconsin, about organizing in public K-12 and post-secondary education in the face of anti-union, anti-worker “right-to-work” laws. We also discuss the role that anti-union law firms are playing in the U.S. to prevent workers from organizing amidst a wave of
In this episode we address some of the major concerns facing teachers and education workers as delegates to both the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association and Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation annual meetings converge in Toronto from March 10-12, 2023. For background on Stone Canyon Holdings Inc. which the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan is an
In this episode, we speak with professional youth soccer coach Rob Arce about the importance of sport for the development of young people, some of the issues facing the development of youth soccer in Canada in particular and how youth soccer is organized in the province of Ontario.
With the release of ChatGPT and many concerned about its significance in education, we are joined by Dr. Beyhan Farhadi, a Toronto District School Board teacher and researcher in the field of e-learning, to discuss our own framework for the role of AI and specifically ChatGPT in education.
In this episode we speak with Mary Joyce, a printmaker, painter, teacher and organizer who has experience writing arts curriculum about the principles of teaching visual arts to children.
In this episode we interview Tiffany Chan, Artistic Director of the Windsor Dance eXperience Inc., a non-profit theatrical dance company dedicated to giving local kids an outlet for their creative and physical activities. It is unique in its efforts to make dance and the theatre experience available to anyone passionate about performing, regardless of their
In this episode we catch-up with Senior Research Associate at the University of Toronto and anti-body engineer Dr. Shane Miersch about preparations for preventing and addressing future pandemics and the way in which public funding is being deployed in funding research and infrastructure. For previous episodes with Dr. Miersch in which related topics are discussed
In this New Year interview with CUPE’s Ontario School Board Council of Unions President Laura Walton we discuss the ways in which education workers were able to get around the limitations imposed by the government and the labour relations regime on their organizing and actions and what this means for the future.
In this episode we interview families without immigration status in Canada and activists for the rights of those without status about their experiences trying to affirm the right to education in Canada for their children and themselves. The Migrant Rights Network informs that as a result of actions demanding status for all, Prime Minister Justin
In this episode we get an overview from retired labour lawyer Kendal McKinney of the extensive ruling by an Ontario Superior Court justice that struck down Bill 124, the Ontario government’s wage and strike limiting legislation.
In this episode, we are reproducing, in its entirety, the remarks of CUPE’s Ontario School Board Council of Unions press conference announcing the results of the vote on their tentative agreement. The press conference includes remarks by CUPE-OSBCU President, Laura Walton, and the Q and A with members of the media.
In this episode we speak with educational support staff about the current staffing crisis in Ontario schools and what is required in the short-term to address the conditions which exist.
In this episode, we interview a teacher in British Columbia on the tentative agreement being put to a vote November 28-30 in that province and what is known about how the agreement addresses the issues of teachers’ working conditions that are their students’ learning conditions.
In this episode we are reproducing in their entirety the remarks of CUPE’s Ontario School Boards Council of Unions President Laura Walton announcing a tentative agreement with the government as well as her Q and A with members of the media. Walton clearly articulates why they are taking the tentative agreement to the membership and
In this episode we are providing coverage of an important rally of Albertans held on October 22, 2022 in defence of the right to public education. Edisaright interviewed participants about their concerns and what they people to know about their demands for the education system.
This year we are marking remembrance day with a series of poems. The poems are from World War I, the Anti-fascist war in Spain, World War II the US war of Aggression Against Vietnam and Iraq and the siege of Gaza. The poems are for a remembrance which seeks to end the scourge of war
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