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Keren Brathwaite co-founded UofT’s Transitional Year Programme. She and others will be recognized at the program’s anniversary gala, Oct.4.

As Floria Kangootui crosses the stage at Convocation Hall this week, she’ll be thinking about how far she’s come. While the University of Toronto graduate always planned to continue her education when she fled Namibia for Canada 12 years ago, obstacles kept getting in the way – until she discovered the Transitional Year Programme (TYP).

Ontario’s incoming government after the election will have its work cut out for it in restoring the public’s faith after extensive school closures.

As Kitchener Centre MPP Laura Mae Lindo’s bill on racial equity in education heads to the legislature for a second reading, the MPP said she also wants to see an equity audit across all Ontario public schools.

The six books are: What’s wrong with the books? Although Dr. Seuss is adored by millions around the world for the positive values in many of his works, including environmentalism and tolerance, some say several of those books have caused harm with how they depict people of colour. In If I Ran the Zoo, for example, there are characters referred to as Africans who wear no clothes except for grass skirts and are drawn with ape-like features. Illustrations of African characters in Dr. Seuss’s 1950 book If I Ran the Zoo (Image credit: Dr. Seuss Enterprises) Another example comes from a bo...