u/Worried_Bluebird7167

It's an interesting situation when the region of Halton, which is still a growing area, is seeing a decline in students in Both of the two larger regional school boards. It is sad that public money is spent by all four boards (P/C/FP/FC) for advertising to try to lure parents to put their kids into their board vs others, so they don't loose provincial funding per pupil. What is happening to education in Ontario?

Anyone have a suggestion where the best place to find hoodies or other McMaster branded clothing that is cheap or free, anywhere in the Hamilton area? I can't afford to buy new stuff from the campus store.

A man's Costco card was forgotten at the store cashier counter yesterday around 4:45 ish. He was purchasing 5 items at the time and probably rushed out before realizing he didn't get his card back. When I handed it into customer service, they said they don't call the people with forgotten cards and they just stick it in the drawer with other forgotten cards.

Has anyone had experience using the borrow able radon detector from HPL? What has your experience been like with the results? How accurate is it?

Is it just me or did anyone else feel like there was a haze in the sky this morning like we had in the past with forest fires? There was a smell in the air too. Am I just imagining things?

Is the residence lottery open in June or is it July? Has anyone heard from them yet? Anyone expecting Lincoln Alexander residence to be open by September? I've heard the residence lottery can be a nightmare. What have u heard about it?

>The very first graduating class subject to the Ford government’s e-learning mandate overwhelmingly rejected it, according to new data obtained by The Trillium through a freedom of information request.

The policy, introduced in 2019 as a leap into the future of digital literacy, states that beginning with the cohort entering Grade 9 in 2020, every Ontario student needs to successfully complete two online credits to earn their diploma.

But according to records tracking the 2023-24 graduates, almost 70 per cent bypassed the requirement entirely."

Want to know why the OSAP grants for those of us that are graduating this year have mostly disappeared, and why public post-secondary education has been hurt by cuts to programs. Read the article about the funnel of money to private colleges. The government gave a ton of money to students going to private colleges, which the auditor general pointed out that these are schools that aren't inspected very well. Quote "In the 2024-25 academic year, the most recent full year of available data, about 40 per cent of OSAP — over $1.3 billion — were handed out to students at private colleges."

Essential, private colleges have been sucking out public money from the system that was supposed to help us as we go through post-secondary. I'm wondering how many of Ford's buddies run private colleges?

Anyone have a update if everyone is ok at that fire across from Spencer's?

Celebration of the Commonwealth Games and Burlington's local civic hero, Mr ​M.M. Robinson this ​Wednesday at Spencer ​Smith Park.