Jun 9, 2021
Photo: Portland Police
A semi crashed on I-5 northbound in Southwest Portland Wednesday around 4:30 a.m. crushing a car.
The people in the car survived, but it took firefighters about an hour to get them out from under the semi s trailer.
This section of the freeway, known as the Terwilliger Curves, has reduced speeds, because of several crashes that have occurred in the past.
Portland Police are investigating the cause of the crash.
TORONTO Hamilton s public school board has voted to rename Ryerson Elementary School and says it will review the names of all its facilities to ensure they align with current values. The Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board says it s taking action in light of the discovery of what are believed to be the remains of 215 Indigenous children at a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C. Egerton Ryerson is considered an architect of Canada s residential school system. The Hamilton board says an Indigenous-led process will be created to examine all its school names. A school board in London, Ont., is also considering whether to rename Ryerson Public School, along with Sir John A. Macdonald Public School, named after Canada s first prime minister.
TORONTO The Ontario government has unveiled a new Grade 9 math curriculum set to begin in the fall that would see academic and applied streams merge with a focus on coding and financial literacy. The new programming was announced on Wednesday and is expected to go into effect in September. The most notable change in the curriculum is an end to the academic and applied math streams. High school students in Ontario typically have to choose between more practical, hands-on applied courses or more theoretical academic courses in core subjects. However, advocates have long argued that streaming ends up dividing students rather than providing them more options and disproportionately impacts racialized and low-income students.
TORONTO Peel Region’s top public health official says that a “potential fourth wave is brewing right now” due to the spread of the Delta variant and he is cautioning residents not to treat the lifting of some public health restrictions later this week as a “full return to normal.” Medical Officer of Health Dr. Lawrence Loh made the comments during a briefing at Brampton city hall on Wednesday. He said that while case counts and hospitalization numbers across Peel are the lowest that they have been since the fall, the Delta variant first detected in India is spreading widely in the community and is likely weeks away from becoming the dominant strain.