Remote learning challenges during the pandemic has more Canadian parents considering private school for their kids, forcing some to make difficult financial decisions, such as postponing mortgage payments and delaying retirement.
Toronto parent Susan Lee-Gallagher says online learning for her son was “a horrible experience.” Most of the time there was no structure, with his teacher giving out assignments and leaving students to it. tgam.ca/39xWRFF
Her son moved to private school at the start of Grade 7 “and as expensive as it is, looking back I think we made the right decision,” she says. tgam.ca/39xWRFF
Charlie Montoyo, in his fourth season as @BlueJays manager, knows that family time is limited. His wife, Samantha, and teen sons, Alex and Tyson, join him in Toronto from May to July, while school is out in Arizona where they live.⚾
Before every home game during their months together, Alex walks to Rogers Centre with his dad from their downtown condo. The kid chills in the clubhouse, fist-bumps players and staff, and watches batting practice from the dugout. tgam.ca/3QoZJoR
When mom Samantha and older brother Tyson get to the game later, Alex watches with them from a suite. It’s better there for a manager’s family. Fans in the stands often mutter nasty stuff if a game isn’t going well. tgam.ca/3QoZJoR
In building the world’s largest potash mine in Saskatchewan, @bhp CEO Mike Henry looks to repair a fractured relationship with First Nations and pivot the global giant away from oil and gas.
Since the Canadian-born CEO landed the top job at the world’s largest mining company in January 2020, the 56-year-old has remade BHP, with an eye to transforming the bottom line and the future. tgam.ca/3Qu9GBi
Over the past 10 months, BHP, which employs more than 80,000 people, exited oil and gas through a US$20-billion spinout of assets to Australia’s @WoodsideEnergy. tgam.ca/3Qu9GBi
Wild boars are one of the most invasive, adaptable and destructive mammals on the planet. They can live almost anywhere and eat anything. They’re disastrous to agriculture and spread bacteria.🐗
Populations in Canada are exploding. How can we fight back? tgam.ca/3Oj2Qg2
Pigs were first introduced to North America by the Spanish in the 1500s, and wild populations have existed – and caused problems – to varying extents on the continent ever since. tgam.ca/3Oj2Qg2
In the late 1990s, as wild boar farms approached the height of their popularity in Canada, interactions with escaped boars were increasingly common, and consistently astonishing for those who encountered them. tgam.ca/3Oj2Qg2
🩰 Ballet dancers from the Kyiv City Ballet, stranded in France since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, have made the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris their de facto home.
"Apartment-houses" were not welcomed by wealthy neighbours and city administrators.
For the Protestant city, apartment-dwelling families were expected to have fewer children, which was considered an unethical constraint on the natural order.