The TDSB is projecting a deficit of $52.2 million for the 2022-23 school year, primarily due to pandemic-related costs and declining enrollment. The deficit also includes the TDSB’s annual structural deficit.

Chair of the Toronto District School Board, Alexander Brown, is asking provincial parties to prioritize students and reimburse pandemic-related costs ahead of the June 2 election.
I'm specifically asking for a commitment to reimburse all pandemic-related expenses incurred by the school boards over the past two years, to fully fund the TDSB’s pandemic recovery plan and to reinstate the enrollment stabilization funding, provide additional funding to cover cost increases related to employee benefits, utilities and other inflationary cost increases that are not currently funded by the ministry,” Brown said.

“We would have to find the $52 million in our budget as with the money that the province gives us, which means that we'd have to look at the programming, we may have to shift where we put resources to move it into the pot to pay for, to cover the $52 million. We may see decreases in staff. We're always worried that programming may be affected by this,” he said.

Earlier this week, the TDSB updated its three-year projection and recovery plan to cover the deficit by paying an estimated $12 million in the first year and $12 million in each of the following years.

Over the past two years, Brown said he has sent numerous letters to Education Minister Stephen Lecce that outline deficit concerns and request additional funding.

Brown also noted that the current Ford government doesn’t have “a good record so far” with funding for the TDSB as the government slashed almost $70 million of the board’s funding in the first year Ford came into office in 2018.

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/tdsb-chair-calls-on-provincial-parties-to-prioritize-young-people-reimburse-pandemic-related-costs-1.5909305

Maple Leafs star Mitch Marner carjacked at gunpoint outside Toronto movie theatre

A day after Maple Leafs star Mitch Marner was robbed of his Range Rover at gunpoint outside an Etobicoke movie theatre, Toronto police said they have already seen more carjackings so far this year than they did in all of 2021.

“It just seems that this is a crime of opportunity, and the end game is profit,” Insp. Richard Harris of the holdup squad told reporters outside Toronto Police Headquarters Tuesday. “So whether it's a new trend that is believed to be something that's gonna make quick money, I'm gonna say and suggest that they stop. We will not stop.”

Harris said that so far this year Toronto police have responded to 60 carjackings, with the thieves usually targeting high-value vehicles. He said that compares to 59 carjackings in all of 2021.

Marner was in his Range Rover in the area of Islington Avenue and the Queensway around 7:45 p.m. on Monday when he was carjacked.

Police said three suspects, two armed with guns and another with a knife, approached a vehicle in the area of Cineplex Cinemas Queensway.

The victims complied with the demands and the suspects then sped off in the vehicle.

No one was physically injured in the encounter.

Police did not officially confirm that Marner was the victim in the incident, saying only that a man and a woman in their 20s were robbed at gunpoint for their Land Rover.

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https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/maple-leafs-star-mitch-marner-carjacked-at-gunpoint-outside-toronto-movie-theatre-1.5906544 

(VIDEO SCREEN SHOT) Coming Soon to Tea Talk Toronto YouTube Channel. In The Interview, Verzuz Battle and I asked him if he was a Vegetable and Why

 

Slay Your Way to the Dentist

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Peace and Love Rapper Nikane

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Rapper Lil Keed has died at the age of 24 - his brother confirmsThe rapper was the youngest of seven children and was signed under Young Thug's record label, YSL (Young Stoner Life), as well as 300 Entertainment.

Rapper Lil Keed has died at the age of 24, his brother has confirmed.  The Atlanta rising star, whose real name is Raqhid Render, leaves behind daughter Naychur.  His brother wrote: "Can’t believe I seened u die today bro I did all my cries I know what u want me to do and that’s go hard for Mama Daddy Our Brothers Naychur and Whiteboy."  On last album Trapped on Cleveland 3 in 2020 he collaborated with Kylie Jenner's boyfriend Travis Scott, Young Thug and Chris Brown.
 

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-rapper-lil-keed-died-26842675

I Cannot Tell You so Wait and See Happy Friday and Enjoy Your Weekend

 

I told my team, ‘Let’s not be sexy. Let’s not overreach. Let’s be conservative in our approach.’

 

So why isn’t Jack Harlow indicted with all those rappers? That’s what a reporter wanted to know at a recent press conference surrounding the announcement of gang-related charges against the likes of Young Thug and Gunna in Fulton County, Georgia.

“Um, the indictment’s got Young Thug and a bunch of other rappers. But there’s one name I was expecting to see, and I didn’t. And that’s Jack Harlow,” asked a reporter. “Can you speak to that?”

District Attorney Fani Willis looked up with a slight smirk before saying, “What I’ll tell you is that, as large as this indictment is, I told my team, ‘Let’s not be sexy. Let’s not overreach. Let’s be conservative in our approach.’ Which is always the approach that I take. In taking that approach, 28 defendants were indicted and they were indicted for the crimes that were appropriate for this RICO indictment.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jack-harlow-not-indicted-young-thug-reporter-1351369/