The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan earned a 13.0 per cent rate of return in 2012 as its net assets grew to $129.5 billion compared with $117.1 billion at the end of 2011.
Public high school teachers plan demonstrations across southern Ontario today to protest Bill 115 -- the controversial legislation that allowed the governing Liberals to impose new contracts on them.
An Ontario labour board ruling that declared a planned walkout by the province’s elementary teachers an "unlawful strike" came too late for most parents who spent the morning in confusion.
Ontario school boards notified parents that schools would be closed Friday, preferring not to wait for a decision from the province’s Labour Relations Board on whether a teachers’ walkout would be illegal.
Ontario students heading back to class today are facing more uncertainty as the labour dispute between public school teachers and the government deepens.
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has asked union leaders to allow teachers to resume leading unpaid extracurricular activities in the province’s public schools, just one day after the government imposed contracts that froze wages.
