Toronto District School Board

Trying to pretend that's not the case, it's just kind of dumb, isn't it? Isn't it just dumb? Same thing with Father's Day.

But if you take a look at the TDSB website, for instance— They've got all kinds of days and things that they've got.

They've got a calendar they can barely stuff in all the days that they think are important, and now they've got a problem with these ones.

Here is Thomas from Toronto.

But I will say that it does seem like it was also sort of a progressive sweep.

However much power TDSB trustees have now, I think is going to be an open question for the next little while until at least we get rid of Doug Ford.

But it seems that the response to the takeover was a pretty resounding defeat of any conservative wannabes to TDSB seats.

I think about like...

I believe his name was Brandon Choi in Willowdale, who defeated a conservative incumbent trustee or more conservative incumbent trustee who had spoken favorably of being placed under supervision.

I worked in an inner city Toronto school.

And as part of the mandate at that time, The middle school had to go away for camps and the Toronto District School Board has its own camp, or at the time did, and we would take the kids to that camp.

And to see these kids connect, you know, into a world that they haven't had a lot of experience with in many cases, because it was a pretty... a pretty challenging part of Toronto in terms of the socioeconomic background that many of the students were coming from, as well as the experience that they may or may not have had.

So to have them out in the outdoors and to watch them in that environment was pretty, pretty cool, quite frankly.

But we want to see X amount of dollars invested into this space.

Or what are you doing at a high school level? Are you creating new initiatives with TDSB and DSBN and the Ottawa Public District School Board, etc.? ? These are the types of conversations that need to happen beyond the superficial.

Did you do stuff that's RG related to get into another more transformational level to create, again, that well-regulated and sustainable marketplace? So to come back to your point, Steve, about Burnsy, Paul Burns, I just like saying Burnsy, but Come back to Burns' point.

I agree with Burns' point that we are bereft of research and education in the Canadian space.

Yeah, it changes your perspective on so many things.

Let's take one policy that Olivia Chow's proposed that I am adamantly against, which is the free lunches for all kids in TDSB schools.

Now you go, you have a problem with feeding kids? No, I don't.

In fact, I'm okay with introducing means-tested programs where you're creating lunch programs for needy people.

And you were digging in on whether it's the overspending, whether it's the ideology as opposed to teaching the basics in schools.

You were writing about that before anybody else was.

Tasha Carradine, somebody that's written about it too, she's running for a TDSB spot.

I'm finding even where I live, people are asking me as many questions about what I think of the – Durham District School Board candidates as the actual city councillors because they've got kids in school right now.