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1. Le problème est la neige montre
sur la voiture.
2. le gouvernement provincial est responsable de ce problème.
3. Doug ford est en charge
du probleme.
4. Si Doug ford veut aider avec la neige il doit obliger tout le monde dans une brosse avec eux a tout moment.

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1. The
provincial government is responsible for snowfall on cars.
3. Doug Ford is in charge of this problem.
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Does he want to help the people he wants to drive, then his drive for?

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1.quand les gens ont pas d'argent il pense qu'il peux faire rien mais chaque année  il y a des chose qui sont gratuit
2. municipal parce-que c'est en ottawa
3. jim watson
4. Organizer plus de chose gratuit.

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1. Le problème est qu'on n'a pas assez de chambre d'urgence dans les hôpitaux.(Elora)

2. Le gouvernement est Provincial car, c’est la province qui est en charge de la santé provincial.(Leigh Anne)

1. Le chef qui est en charge de ce problème est Doug Ford(Eva luna)

1. La solution est que le gouvernement doit investir 500,000$ dans les hôpitaux dans l’ontario.(Elora)

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Ontario Expanding Emergency Services for Patients in Scarborough

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SCARBOROUGH — To build much-needed capacity and help end hallway health care, Ontario is investing in hospital infrastructure project in growing communities across the province, including in Sca

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La Chine achète à nouveau de la viande canadienne 

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La Chine achète à nouveau de la viande canadienne 

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London et Anne                    Problème:

La Chine a suspendu (suspended) l'importation de porc et de bœuf canadiens en juin, parec que certaines viandes (meats) canadiennes ont testées positives au ractopamine (chemical), qui est interdit (banned) en Chine.

2. Le Premier ministre Justin Trudeau a tweeté la nouvelle mardi après-midi, annonçant que c'était "une bonne nouvelle pour les agriculteurs (fermiers) canadiens parce que.. la Chine donne argent $$ aux fermiers canadiennes pour leur boeuf.

3. Le gouvernement fédéral est en charge de le problème.

4.Elles ont trouve une solution au problème parce que elles achète (buy) le boeuf encore de nous.

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Par: David
1. Le 4 novembre  il y avait un accident avec deux voitures a l'intersection de la  route Rideau et de la route Bowesville, une des voitures on bascule (flipped)
2. je pense que c'est le gouvernement Municipal,car le problème implique la rue et les lumière de circulation.

3. le chef qui est en charge du problème es Jim Watson
4. Je pense qu'une solution peut être la gouvernement municipal et provincial peut être un peu plus coopérative pour créer les rue plus idée qui fait du sens

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Where's that scraper!?

Many of use cleared the first ice off our windshields Monday morning.

But at least we may have hit the road in daylight for the first time in a while after Sunday's switch to standard time.

City police were warning of a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Rideau and Bowesville road in which one of two vehicles flipped.

Please slow down and watch out for first responders' vehicles, police said, adding #slowdown and #drivesafe.

Construction-related closures:
Until mid-November, Bronson Avenue is reduced to one lane in each direction between Brewer Way and the Rideau Canal Bridge for road work on weeknights from 6 p.m. to midnight and on weekends between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. Access will be maintained for cyclists and pedestrians.

The eastbound Highway 417 is closed between Hunt Club and Anderson roads from 6:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday.

Through Wednesday, Highway 417 is reduced to two eastbound lanes between Carling and Parkdale Avenues from 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. on weekends and 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. on weekdays. It's for continued construction on the Harmer Avenue pedestrian bridge. The Parkdale Avenue offramp remains open.

Starting Wednesday through Dec. 20, the Alexandra Bridge will be closed to vehicles for repair work from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. on weeknights and on weekends from 7 p.m. on Fridays to 6 a.m. on Mondays. Pedestrians and cyclists will still be able to use the bridge.

For two weeks starting Monday, Queen Street between Bronson Avenue and Bay Street is closed to motorists for construction of the Bay Street cycling facility. It's still open for cyclists and pedestrians.
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Traffic: Rollover in south Ottawa, construction-related closures

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Where's that scraper!? Many of use cleared the first ice off our windshields Monday morning. But at least we may have hit the road in daylight for the first time in a while after Sunday's switch to standard time.

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B1. la croissance(growing)de la population cause des problèmes et cause des gros problèmes(and will cause big problems)au cours de la prochaine décennie(decade).

B2.On pense que le probleme est pour federal(Justin trudeau) parce-que le population être pour tout le  monde dans canada.

E3.Justin trudeau est le chef de federal.

E4. On pense une solution  pour etre:on pe invite les personnes qui ne pas des bon emplois(jobs) dans les autres pays et donne les bon emplois a les personne.(beaucoup de       l´immigration).

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Canada's population reached 37.6 million people in 2019. That is more than 500,000 people over last year, the largest population increase in one year since Confederation. It represents an annual growth rate of 1.4 percent, the highest among G7 countries. This is encouraging news, especially if you believe the world needs more Canada, and that it's important to ensure our prosperity for future generations.

What has driven the increase? Immigration. More than 310,000 immigrants came to Canada in 2018-19. This is also good news. We are on the right trajectory and heading in a positive direction. There is just one concerning problem, however. We are not aiming high enough.

Amid the glowing statistics is a cautionary tale: Canada's population is aging. Our birth rate is falling below the fertility replacement rate of 2.1. This is the average number of children born per woman, the rate at which a population exactly replaces itself from one generation to the next without migration.

We are a decade away from a true demographic pressure point. At that point our aging population will mean a decline in workers, increases in health care costs, and other challenges to our economy and standard of living, because there will not be enough workers to pay for all of our social programs. If we don't get behind more ambitious population growth targets now, current trends will put our population at approximately 50 million people at the turn of the century. The average life expectancy for a child born in Canada will be 91.6 years, and our population will be not just aging, but old.

We need urgent action now - and we need to be deliberate, thoughtful and strategic about how we proceed.

W hat Canada needs is a population of 100 million by the next century. Century Initiative is a nonpartisan organization founded by Canadians concerned about what state the country will be in for coming generations. It makes the case for the ambitious target in its inaugural report, For a Bigger, Bolder Canada: Long-Term Thinking Starting Now . The report outlines a vision for Canada in 2100, with 10 big recommendations to achieve the target.

If we don't act now, we will put at risk the programs and services we enjoy and expect, such as health care, public education, and support for young families and older Canadians. We will fall short of our potential as a country, not only at home but in our influence in the world.

This warning comes at a fortuitous time. The general election has focused Canadians on what comes next for the country. During the federal campaign, Canadians heard from party leaders about their visions for stimulating our economy, creating jobs and maintaining our prosperity. There were debates over health care, infrastructure, job creation and climate change.

But the divisive issue of immigration was not a hot-button issue, unlike the situation in a growing number of countries. Although for many Canadians that conversation would be offensive, even here immigration has the potential to become a partisan issue. But we must not be taken down the rabbit hole of rhetoric.

A growing population is not to be feared. Rather, it should be celebrated. For Canada, it means economic growth and long-term prosperity. Canada is underpopulated. It needs more people. There simply are not enough people to take advantage of the opportunities. There were 506,000 job vacancies in the first quarter of 2019, according to Statistics Canada. This is an increase of 44,000, or nearly 10 percent, over the same quarter in 2018.

Canada should be leveraging the talent of the people who are under-represented in our economy: Indigenous people, women, people with disabilities and seniors. But even if we succeed in bridging the gap in their participation, it still would not be enough to guarantee long-term prosperity.

Unfilled jobs cost the country. It loses out on income taxes and personal spending, and funding for social programs is more challenging. Also lost are the innovation, ideas and growth created by people in the workforce.

In Canada there is still fairly broad public support for immigration, but that could easily change, as the Century Initiative report emphasizes . That's why it's imperative that we have a national conversation and take action to scale up Canada's population. Educating Canadians about the economic case for immigration may well be the most crucial step in this endeavour.

T he economic case for scaling up our population to 100 million Canadians by 2100 needs to be widely heard so that the conversations we have, as we build a brighter, bolder and more prosperous country, are based in fact, not fear.

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Canada's population reached 37.6 million people in 2019. That is more than 500,000 people over last year, the largest population increase in one year since Confederation. It represents an annual growth rate of 1.4 percent, the highest among G7 countries.

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groupe de Ryan, Aayush et Daniel
1. Le problème est que les
salles de classe sont petites et la structure est mal (bad), le manque (lack) d’aide pour les enfants dans le besoin et la violence

2. Provincial, parce que quand tu aller sur le doc il dit sa c'est en charger sur le provincial et dans l'article c'est dit Ontario

3. Le chef est Doug Ford, parce que il appuie (supports) dans tout le carte (board) réduction d’impôt (reduce tax)

4. Ils augmentent (increase)  le salaire pour   des professeurs que travaille avec des enfants ayant des besoins spéciaux afin que les professeur aller en plus grand nombre

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ils font faciliter le travail des professeurs et ajouter du nouveau matériel pour faciliter les choses
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raccourcir (shorten) le travail en dit aux parents de le faire à la maison

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Ontario's public elementary school teachers have voted 98 per cent in favour of strike action.

Teachers and the early childhood educators represented by the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO) are prepared to act if they need to, President Sam Hammond said Friday morning in announcing the results.

The "historic strike vote" sends a message that the government needs to get serious at the bargaining table, Hammond said.

Hammond said members across the province are concerned about class sizes and structure, lack of support for kids with special education needs and the increasing level of violence in elementary schools that has been "swept under the rug" by school boards and the government.

His members will not agree to cuts to Ontario's school system, said Hammond. The union previously said the government, during bargaining, said it was seeking cuts of up to 2.5 per cent in overall education spending and $150 million in concessions in ETFO's collective agreement.

Education Minister Stephen Lecce released a statement warning that ETFO had " taken another escalating step towards a strike which will disproportionately hurt our kids."

"Strike action caused by unions could mean school closures, disruption, and uncertainty for students and parents," said Lecce's statement. " I support a deal, not a strike. Our team remains unequivocal in our determination to land deals with our labour partners as soon as possible to keep our kids in the classroom."

The strike vote by elementary teachers is the latest salvo as tense negotiations continue between the province, school boards and education unions.

ETFO is Ontario's largest education union, with 83,000 members in English public schools. They are mainly teachers, although the union represents early childhood educators, who work in kindergartens, at some boards. (But not in Ottawa, where the early childhood educators at the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board are represented by the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation.)

The vote does not mean members will strike, but it's a tool often used to pressure the other side during bargaining.

ETFO resumes bargaining on Monday with a conciliator, said Hammond.

Education unions have launched fierce campaigns against virtually all the the government's changes to education, including cuts to some funding and the introduction of larger classes.

For elementary teachers, class sizes have risen by just under one student in Grades 4 to 8, with the average moving from 23.8 students to 24.5 students.

Class size restrictions in kindergarten to Grade 3 were not changed.

Wages are also an issue. The government has introduced legislation that would keep wage increases for all public sector workers to no more than one per cent a year.

When asked what wage increase the union was seeking, Hammond did not provide a direct answer Friday, but said the government's wage-restriction legislation interferes with collective bargaining.

One education union has already agreed to the one-per-cent increase in a tentative agreement reached last month. As part of the deal with the 55,000 school support workers represented by CUPE, the government also agreed to add $78 million in funding to restore jobs that had been cut.

Here's what's going on with other education unions:
High schools
The union representing public high school teachers is conducting strike votes across the province. At the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, members of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation plan to hold votes from Nov. 3 to Nov. 5.

At the Ottawa board, that union also represents educational assistants, early childhood educators, office staff and custodians.

On Friday, the conciliator in those negotiations released a "no-board" report, which starts a 17-day countdown to when the both teachers and other staff who belong to the union will be in a legal strike position.

That puts the union in a legal strike position by Monday, Nov. 18. That does not mean they will strike, just that they are legally entitled to stage work actions, which could include a work-to-rule, partial or general strike.

The big issue with high school teachers is the government's plan to increase class sizes and require students to take four courses online.

The government has ordered school boards to increase the average high school class from 22 to 28 over the next four years. Lecce suggested during bargaining that class sizes could only be increased to 25 instead. Union officials rejected that idea, saying the government also wanted to eliminate the limits on maximum class sizes now contained in many collective agreements.

This year, the average high school class has gone up to 22.9 students, causing some board to cancel classes. Ottawa has been insulated from the impact partly because enrolment is increasing so the boards are taking in extra revenue.

The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board hasn't raised class sizes yet. At The Ottawa Catholic School Board, class sizes were projected to increase to 23.5 students this fall. As a result, that board planned to cut 45 class sections at its 15 high schools.

If classes are increased to an average of 28, about 10,054 teaching positions would be lost across the province, according to Ontario's Financial Accountability Office.

All education unions across Ontario are expected to complete the strike vote process by Nov. 15.

English Catholic schools
The union representing 45,000 English Catholic teachers will conduct strike votes on Nov. 12 and 13. It will be done electronically, so results should be known quickly.
French-language schools
Negotiations are not as advanced for the union representing teachers from French-language school boards. Substantive bargaining only began in early October and is continuing, with dates scheduled for the next two weeks.
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Par: Tyler et Jacob

1. la problème est il y a plus de 2400 écoles et garderies( daycares) en Ontario ont trouvé du plomb(lead) dans les fontaines et les gens en boivent depuis deux ans( two years).

2. la niveau de gouvernement en charge de la problème est provincial parce que la problème est dans notre province et parce que provincial est il en charge de la sante et sécurité du travail.

3. le chef qui est en charge du problème est Doug Ford.

4. une solution serait (would) un filtre de nettoyage de plomb (lead clearing filter).
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Laisser l'eau couler jusqu'à ce qu'elle devienne froide.
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remplacer la plomberie qui contient du plomb
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Le gouvernement peut enlever les fontaines l'eau.
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Boire le l'eau de les salles des bains.

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More than 2,400 Ontario schools and daycares exceeded the current federal guideline for lead in drinking water in the past two years, a joint investigation between Global News, The Toronto Star, the Ryerson School of Journalism and Concordia University's Institute for Investigative Journalism has found.

The figure marks a 275 per cent jump from two years ago due to more frequent testing and tougher federal lead limits that reveal a dramatically larger problem than was previously known.

While Ontario's lead threshold has been at 10 parts per billion (ppb) - and remains there as the province adapts to the new national guideline - the Health Canada level of five ppb announced earlier this year captures what experts agree is a level more reflective of the neurotoxin's health risks.

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Across the province, nine per cent of all lead tests in schools and daycares exceeded the national lead guideline of five parts per billion during the 2016-17 and 2017-18 school years, according to an analysis of provincial test result data conducted by reporters for this investigation.

In all, 29 per cent of schools and daycares had at least one exceedance.

Some were dramatic. Around two dozen schools and daycares across Ontario reported samples higher than 1,000 ppb - a level experts say can immediately impact blood-lead levels in a child.

The data is available on a provincial website but a lack of warnings to students, parents and teachers has kept the problem hidden.

"As a student, I think I should be told," says 19-year-old Sarah Rana, who graduated last year from White Oaks Secondary School, an Oakville high school with about 1,900 students in two buildings dating back to the 1960s.

Lead fixtures, including taps and water fountains, were historically used in school plumbing and many remain in place today as the main culprits of elevated lead levels in drinking water.

With lead exceedances dating back to 2016, the school's south campus showed 22 water samples over the federal lead guideline last year. On the school's north campus, there were another 26 with samples tested as high as 140 ppb - 28 times the federal guideline.

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"I'm shocked," said Rana.

"I don't even know what to think about that. ... How is this going to affect me in the long term?"

Children, especially younger children, are particularly vulnerable to the health impacts of lead because their bodies absorb the toxin more than adults. Lead consumption, be it in paint, environmentally or in drinking water, can impact a child's cognitive development, IQ levels and overall health.

There is no safe level of lead, according to the World Health Organization.

"Lead doesn't really confine itself to one organ," said Dr. Pascal Lavoie, pediatrician and researcher at the B.C. Children's Hospital and B.C. Women's Hospital.

"It's a metal that binds to any tissues in the body. It's in the brain, it's in the heart, it's in the bowel, it's in the cardiovascular system. ... The effects are permanent and non-reversible."

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A 2013 Health Canada risk management strategy predicted an economic benefit of more than $9 billion a year "if the exposure of Canadian children to lead could be eliminated." It factored the number of children exposed each year and the impact on intellectual development and lifetime earnings.

Ontario is the only province that mandates that schools and daycare centres test for lead. Everywhere else, lead testing is not mandated and obtaining results requires filing time-consuming and often expensive freedom of information requests.

Repairs at Ontario school could cost almost $16B

On July 1, 2017, Ontario's Safe Drinking Water Act changed to require that lead tests be conducted by schools and daycares at any fountain or tap that is used for drinking water and/or preparing food.

Testing increased to 87,219 in 2017-18 from 15,374 in 2016-17.

"You start looking for it, you're going to find very, very high lead in many classrooms, where some of our most vulnerable age groups are present, and drinking a lot of water," says Marc Edwards, a civil engineer and lead expert from Virginia Tech who helped set up lead testing protocols in Ontario.

"And there's nothing that you can do to undo harm in the past. The only thing you can do is to try to reduce that risk in the future."

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Ontario schools are grappling with a backlog of repairs, totalling almost $16 billion. Removing plumbing can seem like a pipe dream, likely to fall off the priorities list.

In a written statement, Ministry of Education officials wrote that the "vast majority" of public and private schools and child-care centres have had "no problems with lead" in their drinking water and that when exceedances to occur, school boards and private school and daycare owners must take "immediate corrective action."

But the province has not indicated there will be more infrastructure funding to actually remove lead, school board officials say.

"There hasn't really been much discussion from the Ministry of Education to us about how to respond to this," says Maia Puccetti, superintendent of facility services for the Halton District School Board.

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"In Canada, it doesn't seem that we've made it a very big issue and that comes down to the fact that we have a laissez-faire attitude toward our water in general. We have an abundance. ... We've not done a very good job of maintaining our infrastructure and we're paying the price now. "

Jennifer Sarna, a superintendent with the York Catholic District School Board, says it remains unclear how school boards are going to deal with the inevitable spike in exceedances with the lowering of the federal lead guideline.

"I can clearly see by looking at the test results ... we're going to be strapped to manage," she said.

"I don't know if there is a plan. ... It was only after digging into it after you reached out to me that I learned about it. Otherwise, I would have been blissfully unaware."

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The Ministry of Education's written statement says that while it allocates funding to school boards, those boards are responsible for deciding how the funds are spent, "as they are in the best position to determine their renewal priorities and local needs."

Ian Gaudet, controller of facility services for the Waterloo Region District School Board, said replacing all of the board's lead plumbing is simply too expensive.

"In some cases, it's underground, it's in walls and so would be very destructive and very costly," Gaudet said.

And it's often difficult to know the source of the lead - often the spikes are not from the pipes themselves but from plumbing fixtures, water fountains and the solder used to join pipes.

"We have purchased new bottle filling stations which have succeeded. And so, we work with our vendors to make sure that our products ... don't use lead solder in the joints," Gaudet said.

Test sampling, lab analysis, staff time, and replacement or removals of fixtures and piping have cost the Waterloo board about $250,000 this past year, Gaudet said.

"To my knowledge, there has been no additional direct support for increased funding to support the increased scrutiny on each drinking source and then reduction in the threshold."

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Lead problems in new fixtures are widespread, says Michele Grenier, executive director for Ontario Water Works, a not-for-profit involved in drinking water research and policy development.

"Lead-free brass wasn't actually lead-free until 2014," she said. Before then, "lead-free" brass contained up to 8 per cent lead; in 2014, federal building codes ordered a standard of less than 1 per cent. "Lead-free" taps were routinely installed in schools, including during new constructions.

"When a system is new, it's sort of fresh and shiny, and the lead is more likely to leak out at that point than it is when the pipes have got, sort of, built up their natural coating after years and years of being exposed to the water."

Public schools

The highest number of lead exceedances were measured in taxpayer-funded schools -- 8,556 out of 79,191 tests -- an 11 per cent failure rate, based on the current federal guideline. More than 2,000 public schools have logged at least one lead exceedance over the national guideline during the 2016-2018 period, some with repeated exceedances over dozens of tests.

Schools in the Peel District School Board logged the most exceedances with 773. Dufferin Peel Catholic District School Board with 550 and Ottawa-Carleton District School Board with 501 round out the top three.

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Overall, there are 26 school boards with more than 100 exceedances and 43 with more than 50.

Here is a sampling of public schools across the province:
Timmins High and Vocational School, Timmins, District School Board Ontario North East
This high school had the most lead exceedances of any one school with 67 - 56 per cent of all tests. One test was 497 ppb in 2017 (nearly 100 times the national guideline).

Lesleigh Dye, director of education for the district board, said the board "follows the current (testing) measures that our medical officer of health has recommended," including reporting lead problems to the province.
Brother Andre Catholic High School, Markham, York Catholic District School Board
The highest single test recorded came from a sample at this high school on August 29, 2017. It measured more than 1,300 times above the federal guideline - at 6,710 ppb. In the U.S., the EPA considers lead to be hazardous waste if concentrations exceed 5,000 ppb.

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Such dramatically high lead level samples are most likely due to a "chunk of lead" in the tap, said Edwards, who first blew the whistle on the serious lead issue in Flint, Michigan in late 2015.

"You have to take these high results seriously," he said.

The classroom sink, where the high lead levels were found, was capped and closed after staff attempted - unsuccessfully - to resolve the problem by flushing and replacing the accessible pipes, said Jennifer Sarna, a superintendent with the York Catholic board.

"At that school... the preliminary steps that usually produce a resolution were not working. There was no feasible financial way to address the issue," said Sarna.

The board logged 112 exceedances of the national standard during the past two years.

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"We have a number of options and we'll go through whichever one is feasible from a financial perspective and we will do what we can to resolve the issue. So in an ideal world, sure, we'll change the pipes. But that's not always possible."
Algonquin Avenue Public School, Thunder Bay, Lakehead District School Board
This school for junior kindergarten to Grade 8 has 325 students. Last year, it had 50 exceedances. In all, the school had a 38 per cent exceedance rate between 2016 and 2018.

"There are more [exceedance] numbers, but it's making us better. It's more information and more transparency," said Kyle Ulvang, health and safety officer for district board. "I think knowing the numbers is better. Before, we didn't know true numbers and with sporadically sampling, it was more concerning."
Western Technical-Commercial School, Toronto, Toronto District School Board
This school, in the High Park area of Toronto, which shares the building with the Ursula Franklin Academy and the alternative The Student School, had 16 national guideline lead exceedances last year, one reaching as high as 510 ppb.

"We did have exceedances and we ended up replacing the fixtures," said Steve Shaw, the TDSB's executive officer of facilities and planning. "There's no doubt the change in regulation to test every source of drinking water over five years has had a financial impact on the board. We went from one sample to a third of the building."

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Water sampling analysis last year cost the TDSB $280,000.

Flushing, the typical response to lead exceedances, comes with its own costs, said Shaw.

"We're taking a pretty precious commodity - drinking water - and flushing it down the drain every day," he said. "There's a finite amount of money and if you're pouring it down the drain, it seems like a waste. But you can't put a price on safety. We spend whatever we need to spend to make sure it's safe."
St. Vincent Catholic Elementary School, Oakville, Halton Catholic District School Board
This school, which opened in 1960 in Oakville, had 13 exceedances in 2016-2017 and 21 in 2017-2018.

"We regularly test our drinking water fixtures, and if exceedances are detected, we implement appropriate measures based on the direction and guidance from the Halton Region Health Department," said Steve Allum, manager of environmental programs with the district school board.

In addition to flushing and installing filters, the board removes lead-laced fixtures, including one in St. Vincent, he said in a written statement.

"In those instances, labour and materials are usually around a few hundred dollars. If fixture replacement is necessary, the full cost can range into the thousands."

Private Schools

Ontario private schools had a 5 per cent exceedance rate, with 273 tests above the national standard. More than 100 private schools in all had at least one lead exceedance over the past two years. Some private schools have also shown chronic lead issues.

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One of the highest numbers of exceedances was registered at Ridley College in St. Catharines - 22 exceedances in 128 tests.

The school - which has an annual tuition ranging from $17,000 for kindergarten students up to $33,000 a year for high school students to $68,000 for international students - saw a jump from four exceedances in 2016-2017 to 18 exceedances the next year. They ranged from 5 ppb to 147 ppb.

"Ridley College... has been purposefully addressing the areas of need on our campus," the school wrote in a statement. "We will continue to partner with and report to the Ministry of the Environment and the local Medical Officer of Health to ensure the cleanest, safest and most reliable drinking water possible."

Westboro Academy in Ottawa, a private kindergarten to Grade 8 school with an annual tuition of about $14,000 a year, saw only one exceedance in the 2016-2017 school year but had nine last year.

School officials declined requests for comment from the Star.

Heritage Academy of Learning Excellence in Ottawa, a not-for-profit school specializing in dyslexia and ADD for students in Grades 1-12, had 10 exceedances out of 18 tests in the past two years.

The school's director, Cheryl Ward, directed the Star's questions to the Ottawa Catholic School Board, which owns the building.

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Gerry Sancartier, the board's property and operations officer, said the exceedances happened at two fixtures in the school which were addressed through flushing, installing a lead filter and replacing one of the fixtures at a cost of $500.

Daycares

There were 646 lead exceedances measured in daycare centres over the two years - an overall exceedance rate of 3.5 per cent. In all, 281 Ontario daycares had at least one lead exceedance in that period including dozens of daycares that had a string of repeat exceedances.

"The child in the daycare is... like a sponge to lead," said Michele Prévost, a civil engineering professor at Polytechnique Montreal and a leading international expert on lead in drinking water.

"So, that child that is exposed to a high concentration... is going to be exposed to an acute dose of lead which will actually impact his blood lead levels significantly to the point of causing an acute exposure and impacts on his health."

The Rainbow Centre in Atikokan, Ont., west of Thunder Bay, had 62 exceedances out of 114 tests between 2016 and 2018 - 54 per cent of tests were above the national guideline.

"Lead is very dangerous for children," said Kristi Langner, executive director of the non-profit daycare which is licenced for 64 spots ranging from infants up to 12-year-olds. "So I said, 'how can we fix this, how can we get this done? I want to do what's best for them.'"

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The daycare provided bottled water during the process of testing and re-testing.

"We have 11 sinks in the child-care area. They each had to be tested and they each had to have two compliant tests," Langner said.

"So if something came back non-compliant we had to have more work done. And then we had to do those sinks again."

Langer said it cost over $12,000 to address the problem over a year and a half.

"We're now 100 per cent compliant," she said.

The centre still flushes pipes every morning because of the age of the building and concerns that the lead could be in the municipal source, she says.

The Kinsmen Children's Centre in Waterloo logged a 72 per cent exceedance rate with 43 exceedances last year based on the national guideline.

"All fixtures were flushed and re-sampled results came back within standards. We continue to flush our fixtures regularly," wrote Bethany Rowland, a spokesperson for the Region of Waterloo.

Central Park YMCA Child Care Centre in Brampton showed lead exceedances in six of the eight tests over the past two years, provincial data shows - a 75 per cent failure rate.

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Following the test results, the centre moved to bottled water and installed a water filtration system, wrote Chris Meyer, a spokesperson for the YMCA, in an email response.

"We take the safety of children seriously. Healthy child development is at the core of what we do every day at our approximately 300 child-care locations across the Greater Toronto Area."

The Kanata Montessori School (north campus) in Ottawa exceeded the national standard 14 times in the 2017-2018 school year, the data shows.

"We lease our building from the City of Ottawa," said principal Jonathan Robinson. "We were not aware of high lead content as the city tests the water and we were told that it was not guaranteed to be safe for drinking so we ship in water for drinking."

Testing and Transparency

The province requires schools with exceedances to flush the main water line for five minutes and fixtures for 10 seconds every day.

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But while experts agree flushing reduces lead levels temporarily, it is not a reliable solution, says Prévost.

A study published last year in Water Research, co-authored by Prévost, found that 30 minutes after flushing, lead levels return to roughly half those following eight-hour stagnation, bringing into question Ontario's solution to elevated lead in drinking water.

"Flushing will help a little bit," Prévost said in an interview. "But flushing will not solve the issue. The concentrations will creep up again within half an hour."

A 2016 study Prévost co-published tested lead levels in 8,530 elementary schools, daycares and large buildings in four provinces, concluding that while overall lead levels were low, some daycares and elementary schools showed lead releases that were "likely to cause elevated (blood level levels) in young children." The highest exceedances could trigger, "rare but acute risk," it reads.

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Public health initiatives promoting drinking water over other beverages, including the most recent Canada Food Guide, means reducing lead exposure in daycares and schools is "critical," it concludes, adding that the standard policy of addressing the issue through flushing "should be re-examined."

Yanna Lambrinidou, a leading U.S. researcher on lead in water at Virginia Tech, agrees.

"The notion that a morning flush is an adequate remedial measure is worrisome. It is not backed by science," she said.
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Schools are more likely to have lead issues due to long breaks in which students and staff members are not in the building using the plumbing or taps, causing water to stagnate in pipes, absorbing more lead.

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"Overnight and weekends and breaks; all of these things increase the lead content in the water," said Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician and public health advocate at the Hurley Medical Centre in Michigan, who helped expose the Flint water crisis.

Hanna-Attisha was not surprised about the number of schools and daycares in Ontario with lead exceedances.

"The greatest irony is that you go to school to learn and to fill your brain with awesomeness. Yet, here you are potentially being exposed to something that can really do the exact opposite in terms of development," she said.

"Children exposed to lead will have higher rates of heart disease, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, early dementia, gout, anemia - I mean, the list goes on of what childhood exposure to lead can cause later in life."

Lead also poses a significant risk to pregnant women, as the metal is easily transferred to the fetus. It has also been linked to an elevated risk of stillbirth.

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"I am asking the education sector to check relevant policies so parents and guardians are informed in a timely manner of any lead exceedance detected in their school or childcare centre," then-education minister Mitzie Hunter wrote to school boards in October 2017.

Hunter also asked parents be notified in a timely manner and understand corrective steps.

But many students and parents say they have remained in the dark.

Rana, who studied at Oakville's White Oaks Secondary School until graduating last year, learned of her school's lead problem from a Facebook post.

She said she started to avoid the school's drinking fountains at all costs, often going all day without drinking water. She was upset that neither she nor her parents received a notice from the school board about high lead results.

"If there had been [warnings sent to parents], the whole school would have been talking about it.

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"No one knew. No one was talking about it."

Halton District School board logged 304 exceedances - one of the highest totals among school boards in the province.

Maia Puccetti, superintendent of facility services for the Halton board, says White Oaks' high lead readings - including one at 140 ppb - were taken during construction at the school last summer when water wasn't being routinely used.

But test results in both 2016 and 2017 also detail lead exceedances at the school.

Puccetti said exceedances should be communicated to parents and students through email messages from the school

"Maybe we just need to make them more aware in some way," she said. "School boards are doing the best we can to manage the situation ... I recognize it is a big concern."

The Toronto District School Board does not post lead-testing results online. Parents are able to see the results at each school, according to the TDSB.

"We're committed to openness and transparency," said the TDSB's Steve Shaw.

"It's our intention in the fall to have all of those results posted on individual school websites."

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More than 2,400 Ontario schools and daycares exceeded the current federal guideline for lead in drinking water in the past two years, a joint investigation between Global News, The Toronto Star, the Ryerson School of Journalism and Concordia University's Institute for Investigative Journalism has found.

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Par:Haylie et Layla

Quel niveau de gouvernement est en charge de ce problème? Le gouvernement fédéral je le sais parce que cèst une probleme du tout la Canada.
Quel chef est en charge de ce problème? Justin Trudeau, je le sais parce que dans l'élection il parle beaucoup à le réchauffement climatique. Quelles sont les solutions possibles? Il n'y a pas encore de solution mais Trudeau travaille pour mettre fin au changement climatique.Mais  il y a aussi quelque chose qui s'appelle les but globaux, les objectifs globaux sont 17 but qui vont changer le monde dans 2030.

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Domestic efforts aside, we can have more impact on climate change by helping China solve its carbon problems.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said there is little Canada can do alone to solve climate change. But we can punch above our weight if we focus on solving the problem at a global level. All we need is a common objective all Canadians can get behind. I can think of no more unifying goal then to stop the melting of the polar ice cap.

Scientists have said our polar ice cap has anywhere between 100 and 5,000 years before it completely melts. Not only would this have a dramatic increase over the world's average temperature, but the loss of all land ice would raise sea levels as much as 70 metres (230 feet) - effectively wiping out seaboards around the world.

While fossil fuel consumption is seen as the main culprit, it can play an important transitional role if it is used as a substitute for dirty products like coal. The fact is, some fossil fuels are better than others.

Natural gas can reduce coal emissions by 50 to 60 per cent. And refined oil, while not as efficient in reducing CO2 emissions, does produce significantly less ash. When it is refined, oil removes nasty stuff like sulfur and heavy metals that are released into the air as ash and dust. So even oil can be a good coal substitute.

The biggest global emitter of CO2 emissions is China. Since 2000 China's emissions have quadrupled. China now produces double the amount of carbon than the U.S. If Canada were to shut down its economy for one year, it would take China only 21 days to replace our emission savings.

Coal dust is constantly wafting over from northern China and, according to the Earth Institute of Columbia University, is responsible for roughly half of the melting of the Arctic because it reduces reflectivity and speeds melting. NASA satellite images document the shocking impact coal dust is having on our Arctic and even causing dust storms in Greenland.

The Paris Agreement on climate focuses all countries on domestic efforts to reduce their carbon footprint. There was much sound and fury during our federal election campaign around the carbon tax, making polluters pay and investing in more clean tech. But the fact is, even if these policies help meet our 2030 Paris objectives, Canada will have no discernible impact on global climate change.

That said, Article 6 of the accord gives credit to countries that are more ambitious in their objectives and that make more meaningful contributions to solving the problems of others.

Currently Article 6 has vague language about goals that support sustainable development. Common sense suggests a transition solution is to export every bit of natural gas and oil we can to China in order to reduce coal emissions. This should be considered an important step in sustainable development.

This also brings clarity to the pipeline debate. Because in order to get natural gas and oil to China, we will need pipelines. We will also need to allow tanker traffic off the west coast along specific transportation corridors.

In addition to fighting climate change domestically through more use of hydro, nuclear and alternative technologies and reforestation, it is time to build a national consensus around the idea that we can have more impact on climate change by helping China solve its carbon problems. That is an objective everyone in Canada can get behind regardless of provincial or First Nations interests.

Focusing on how we can fix our Arctic by getting rid of Chinese coal dust and pollutants using our natural resources and innovative technologies is our best chance of success in creating a climate change policy everyone in Canada can get behind.

a digital and data government relations firm based in Toronto and Ottawa. Michael Coates is executive chairman of Rubicon Strategy Inc., H is argument was presented at the Council for Clean and Reliable Energy annual roundtable in Penticton, B.C., in October.

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In the seven and a half weeks since Ottawa's Confederation Line opened to the public, there's been nearly a full day's worth of service disruptions - that we know about.

Confederation Line service disruptions add up to 21.5 hours of headaches for commuters

In the seven and a half weeks since Ottawa's Confederation Line opened to the public, there's been nearly a full day's worth of service disruptions - that we know about.

The new light rail line has broken down 31 times in the last 53 days for a total of 21.5 hours out of service, according to OC Transpo alerts.

Add the Trillium Line to the mix, and there have been more than 24 hours and 15 minutes of disruptions since Oct. 6 alone.

Trains on Lines 1 and 2 were halted on 20 of the 31 days since parallel bus service ended and dozens of routes were retired, forcing commuters to transfer onto LRT to complete their rides downtown.

Frustration among riders has boiled over, prompting Mayor Jim Watson to promise $3.5 million to bring back buses that had been put out of service. OC Transpo managers will have more to say at a transit commission meeting today.

Here's a look at Ottawa's troubled transit system, by the numbers.

How often does the LRT break down?

Longest disruptions since Sept. 14

Most frequent trouble spots

Known causes of O-Train issues
Facts and figures are from OC Transpo, plus city sources whenever possible. CBC News has asked for more information about nine known incidents where a cause wasn't listed, and 17 incidents where a precise location wasn't given, and was told OC Transpo staff would answer those questions at Wednesday's meeting.

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