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Nearly 1.5 million students — both current and former — at Canada’s largest school board are among those who have been impacted by the data breach of PowerSchool, used by schools across North America to store student and staff data. According to an email from a Toronto District School Board spokesperson, approximately 1.49 million students were impacted.“I can confirm approximately 1.49 million TDSB students were impacted,” said Emma Moynihan, communications adviser for the school board.The data was confirmed by the board when Global News inquired about numbers reported by the online news site BleepingComputer, which had obtained information into the scope of the data breach of PowerSchool.Global News has not independently confirmed the numbers reported by BleepingComputer, which allege th...

A bishop leading the U.S. presidential inaugural prayer service on Tuesday made a direct appeal to President Donald Trump, asking him to “have mercy” on the LGBTQ+ community and migrant workers who are in the United States illegally. Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, directly spoke to Trump while he and Vice-President J.D. Vance were seated in the front row.“Let me make one final plea, Mr. President,” the bishop said in her sermon, which lasted 15 minutes. “Millions have put their trust in you. And as you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving God. In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now.“There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican an...

By Catherine Morrison The Canadian Press Posted January 22, 2025 10:25 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says a government led by him would cut the number of federal public servants — but he doesn’t mind if they work from home. When asked by Radio-Canada on Tuesday if U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order sending federal workers back to the office five days a week is a good idea, Poilievre said that what matters is whether public servants do the work.He said that work is not getting done now within the federal government. ...

President Donald Trump’s administration moved Tuesday to end affirmative action in federal contracting and directed that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on paid leave and eventually be laid off. The moves follow an executive order Trump signed on his first day ordering a sweeping dismantling of the federal government’s diversity and inclusion programs that could touch on everything from anti-bias training to funding for minority farmers and homeowners. Trump has called the programs “discrimination” and insisted on restoring strictly “merit-based” hiring.The executive order on affirmative action revokes an order issued by President Lyndon Johnson, and curtails DEI programs by federal contractors and grant recipients. It’s using one of the key tools utilized by the B...