Gavin Fridell

Aug 30, 2024 | monitormag.ca | Bruce Campbell |Gavin Fridell |Katherine Scott |Michael Bueckert

The Board accepted a request from the government to order more than 9,000 Teamsters members back to work at Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Kansas City and to impose binding arbitration to produce a new contract.

Aug 28, 2024 | monitormag.ca | Gavin Fridell |Katherine Scott |Michael Bueckert

As the world bears witness to a proliferation of worrying climate news, from record-breaking heat waves to hurricanes to forest fires, it also seems to see a parallel growth of “solutions”—few of which seem to be getting us where we need to go. There is no shortage of ideas and innovations, along with a rapid roll-out of new green technologies, even while the world’s carbon dioxide emissions continue to grow.

Apr 29, 2024 | monitormag.ca | Ricardo Tranjan |Bruce Campbell |Gavin Fridell |Katherine Scott

Education funding in Ontario has been a bit of a shell game for some time. Back in 2019, the government announced that the average class size in secondary schools was going to increase from 22 to 28. Parents and teachers pushed back, and soon after, the same government made a big deal of lowering the average class size from 28 to 25. We knew then we were in for a bumpy ride.