The Ministry of Magic withdraws from Hogwarts...for now

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CBC News.ca: "The Ontario government repealed Bill 115 today, removing from the books controversial legislation that allowed the province to impose labour contracts on public school teachers earlier this month."

"Many teachers continue to withhold duties they perform outside of the classroom, such as supervising clubs and sports teams." (Yeah, continue punishing the kids for things that aren't their fault! Selfish pricks!)

The Star.com: “It’s not going to change anything — it still doesn’t resolve any fundamental issues or concerns that both school boards and certain bargaining units would have,” said Michael Barrett, president of the Ontario Public School Boards’ Association and a trustee with the Durham District School Board.

A statement released by the Liberals Monday afternoon said that by “moving to repeal the act, the government is promoting goodwill and stability in Ontario schools by addressing a key concern” of both the elementary and secondary teacher unions."

Metro News: "Phil McNeely was quite happy to take our help in his campaign,” said Peter Giuliani, president of the Ottawa-Carleton Elementary Teachers’ Federation, noting that teachers volunteered and got behind the MPP in the 2012 election. “If you cast a vote and don’t hold people accountable, you get the government you deserve.”

"We’re still in exactly the same conditions,” said Giuliani. “There has been no commitment. The government hasn’t come out and said ‘we won’t do this again.’” (That's because this is the same style of stunt that was pulled last year with SOPA and PIPA. There was much contreversy and backlash, so "they" claimed they were pulling the plug on SOPA and PIPA. Uh-huh, so why is it that 9 times out of 10 I can't convert YouTube videos to mp3's? For that matter, why are most actual music videos now only available on Vevo, which for some reason often causes my display driver to crash then recover? SOPA/PIPA and Bill 115 may appear-on the surface-to be unrelated, but both are acts imposed by tbtb which are subsequently "withdrawn" or "repealed" after much opposition by the public, only to be sneakily implemented at a later date when the imposition has become a distant memory to the masses and general tempers have calmed. Don't believe me? Again, I bring up converting YouTube-to-mp3.)