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Canada spends about 5.2% of its GDP on education in 2020. [46] The country invests heavily in tertiary education (more than US$20,000 per student). [47] Recent reports suggest tuition fee increases across all provinces ranging from a low of .3% in Ontario to a high of 5.7% in Alberta due to a provide-wide restructuring of fees. [48]
Developed by The Learning Partnership and now lead by The Students Commission of Canada, the initiative started as a one-day event for students in the Greater Toronto Area in the Canadian province of Ontario. [2] Currently, it is a national event with more than 250,000 students, 18,000 teachers and 75,000 organizations participating each year. [3]
The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (sometimes shortened to T&R Day) (NDTR; French: Journée nationale de la vérité et de la réconciliation), originally and still colloquially known as Orange Shirt Day (French: Jour du chandail orange), [1] is a Canadian day of memorial to recognize the atrocities and multi-generational effects of the Canadian Indian residential school system. [2]
Schools do not have a holiday, but students and teachers gather to celebrate at schools with special traditional food, cookies, music, and presents for the teachers. Albania: 7 March Celebrates the opening of the first school where lessons were taught in the Albanian language, on 7 March 1887. [7] Algeria: 28 February [8] Argentina: 11 September
Legislation regarding primary and secondary level education in Ontario is outlined in the Education Act. [38] As of 2021, two million children were enrolled as students within the province. [39] Elementary schools teach children enrolled in kindergarten and grades 1–8, while secondary schools teach adolescents in grades 9–12.
Presented by Historica Canada and funded by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, the Citizenship Challenge has tested of over 1.05 million people as of January 2021. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] As a studying resource for both the challenge and for actual citizenship tests themselves, Historica Canada offers a "Citizenship Collection" through the ...
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Public holidays in Canada (French: Jours fériés au Canada), known as statutory holidays, stat holidays, or simply stats (French: jours fériés), consist of a variety of cultural, nationalistic, and religious holidays that are legislated in Canada at the federal or provincial and territorial levels. While many of these holidays are honoured ...