Ontario to expand mandates of TVO and TFO

TORONTO — The government of Ontario today announced it is introducing a bill which will broaden the mandates of provincially funded broadcasters TVO and TFO to provide centralized administration, coordination and support for teacher-led online learning in the English- and French-language publicly funded education systems. The announcement of the proposed amendments to the Ontario Educational Communications Authority Act and Ontario French-language Communications Authority Act was made as part of the Ontario government’s introduction today of its Covid-19 Economic Recovery Act proposed legislation. In a news release issued by Groupe Média TFO this afternoon, Ontario’s minister of education, Stephen Lecce, is...