#47 - School board vice chair trolls the Toronto School Board with comments relating to the LGBTQ, York University students protest over Israel and Palestine




This Week in Toronto show

Summary: School board vice chair made some trolling comments when disagreeing with LGBTQ rights being voted upon in favor of the former, now everyone is calling for him to be fired. The Ontario Government announced that starting September of 2020, in order for high school students to graduate they must complete two online courses. Temba talks about how this may not be a good idea and has a story about online courses being in high school back in 2011. And protests between pro Israel and pro Palestine supporters clashed over former Israeli soldiers being brought in to talk about their own experiences being in the Israeli military. Temba talks about why the pro Palestine protesters are dumb for protesting and also talks about free speech. This Week in Toronto History 1906 November 19 Electricity generated at Niagara Falls begins to be supplied to Toronto. 1922 November 22 The first Royal Agricultural Winter Fair opens. 2002 November 22 The Sheppard Subway Line opens.Toronto hosts World Youth Day. iTunes l  Spotify l Stitcher l Android l Google Play Podbean l TuneIn l RSS  (Another link to the podcast in case you can't access the ones above): https://linktr.ee/thisweekintoronto Email: thisweekinto@hotmail.com Email for questions to be answered or to be a co-host of the show, must live in Toronto or GTA area to be co- host.  My blog, go follow and read! https://medium.com/@tembajennings Follow the podcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinto/ Subscribe to the podcast on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxgvK8oxhIzGlU4XDCPNcbQ?view_as=subscriber Follow Temba on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tembajennings