By Carol Goar. Thanks to a handful of tenacious sleuths, the great Canadian skill shortage has been exposed as a myth.
It took nine months of detective work by economists, journalists, social media sleuths and investigators at the Parliamentary Budget Office to solve the mystery of Canada’s missing job vacancies. Last week Auditor General Mike Ferguson made it official: The federal government was using unreliable statistics to support its claim that Canada had plenty of jobs but no workers with the skills to fill them. More...
Will OISE’s Master of Teaching degree help?
By Sarah Newcomb. The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) recently announced plans to nix their Bachelor of Education program in favour of expanded Master of Teaching and Master of Arts in Child Study and Education degrees.
Beginning in 2015, incoming education students will be able to “undertake advanced study in the educational sciences and at the same time meet the requirements for licensure to teach in Ontario”, essentially graduating from OISE with both a teaching and a master’s degree. More...

