Barbara Kay: Ontario Board’s Move to Drop School Police Program Based on Politics, Not Evidence

An RCMP officer speaks with a student outside of an elementary school in North Vancouver on Sept. 9, 2021. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

Commentary

School board elections in Ontario, held Oct. 24, have been heated. Many candidates ran to replace trustees obsessed with critical race theory and radical gender ideology. Another issue, no less contentious, deserves closer scrutiny: police presence in schools.