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The grading standards for public elementary and secondary schools (including secular and separate; English and French first language schools) are set by the Ontario Ministry of Education and includes letter grades and percentages. In addition to letter grades and percentages, the Ministry of Education also uses a level system to mark its students.
The Office of Women's Social and Economic Opportunity, formerly the Ministry of the Status of Women (French: Ministère de la Condition féminine, between 2017 and 2018), Ontario Women's Directorate (French: Direction générale de la condition féminine de l'Ontario, prior to 2017) and Office of Women's Issues(French: Office de la condition féminine), between 2018 and 2022 is an office ...
The provincial secondary school literacy requirement can be met through passing the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test with a score of 75.0% or above. If one fails the Literacy Test, they must rewrite the test the following school year, or complete the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Course (OLC 3O or 4O) in grade 11 or 12.
New drivers will receive a 30-day non-criminal suspension for a blood alcohol concentration of greater than zero. [27] [28] British Columbia - Length: 12 hours; Reason: BAC over zero when a licence restriction is in place. [29] Length: 3–30 days depending on prior offences; Reason: BAC over 0.05 percent. [30]
In 1897, Adelaide Hoodless was invited by Erland Lee to speak at a Farmers' Institute Ladies Night in Stoney Creek, Ontario where she suggested the formation of an organization for rural women. The next week, on February 19, 1897, the first formal organization of a Women's Institute took place in Saltfleet Township. [3]
In 2021, a by-election resulted in NWT gaining a majority of women representatives, a first for Canada. [2] The province with the highest percentage of women in their legislature is Quebec at 46.4%. Women currently represent 35.3 per cent (273 out of 772) of all provincial and territorial legislators across Canada as a whole.
However, Ontario maintains greater similarities with other Canadian regions than it does with the neighbouring American English and its regional variations. [102] Northern Ontario English has several distinct qualities stemming from its large Franco-Ontarian population. As a result several French and English words are used interchangeably.
There is a striking difference between the Toronto CMA [citation needed] (5,862,850) and the rest of Ontario (7,379,310); in particular, in the Toronto CMA visible minorities account for 51.4% of the population (3,011,900), whereas in the rest of Ontario the percentage of visible minorities in the overall population is much lower, at 11.8% ...