Two weeks ago, Immigration Minister Sean Fraser granted the students reprieve. He has paused the pending deportations while a task force investigates each case to find out if they were innocent or complicit in defrauding Canada’s immigration system.
TDSB’s specialty school lottery has faced widespread criticism. But for some families it’s been a game-changer Ayan Kailie says her 14-year-old daughter Abby is a “crazy talented” artist. But the single mother of three can’t afford supplies, canvases or art lessons — things the family felt Abby would need to get into her dream school. The Toronto school board’s overhaul of the admissions policy for specialized programs and schools, which replaced a merit-based process with a lottery, gave them hope, Isabel Teotonio reports.