Author: Clint Curtis

To be eligible for this provincial LTT rebate, you must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident and over 18 years of age. If you have a spouse, they must not have owned a home in the time they’ve been your spouse. You must also live in the home within 9 months of purchasing it. […]

The Trillium Drug Program covers the cost of about 5,000 prescription drugs that are currently available through the Ontario Drug Benefit program, and about 1,000 drug products upon meeting specified criteria through the Exceptional Access Program. What is Ontario Trillium drug benefit? The Trillium Drug Program is a Government of Ontario program to lower the […]

Today, the greatest threats to Lake Ontario come from urban development, electricity generation, and sewage and stormwater pollution. Why is Lake Ontario so polluted? Lake Ontario may be the most polluted out of the five Great Lakes. All of the other lakes flow into it, giving it their pollution. It also receives runoff from farms […]

In Ontario, the Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development is responsible for the enforcement of both the federal and provincial WHMIS legislation. Who enforces WHMIS regulations? Who enforces WHMIS? WHMIS is enforced by the Labour Branch of Human Resources Development Canada for federal workplaces and by the provincial or territorial agencies responsible for occupational […]

Legal Requirements to Have an Ontario Health and Safety Policy. Under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, an employer must prepare and review at least once a year a written occupational health and safety policy, and must develop and maintain a program to implement that policy [clause 25(2)(j)]. What must a health and safety policy […]

Students will investigate properties of discrete and continuous functions, including trigonometric and exponential functions; represent functions numerically, algebraically, and graphically; solve problems involving applications of functions, and develop facility in simplifying polynomial and rational expressions. What is functions in math Grade 11? A technical definition of a function is: a relation from a set of […]

Workplace policies required by law: An Accessibility Policy. A Workplace Health & Safety Policy. A Workplace Violence and Harassment Policy, A Pay Equity Plan Policy (only applies to businesses with 10 or more employees) What policies must an employer have? All employers must, by law, have written disciplinary rules and procedures set out in a […]

Iroquoian languages were spoken in Ontario and Quebec. The most commonly reported language in this family was Mohawk, spoken by 2,350 people. Michif is a language that developed among Métis and that combines French and Cree. In 2016, 1,170 people reported speaking Michif well enough to conduct a conversation. What is the most common indigenous […]

Gemstone. Amethyst was adopted as Ontario’s official mineral in 1975 to represent the mineral wealth of the province. A form of quartz, amethyst is found in clusters throughout northern Ontario, concentrating around the area of Thunder Bay. What stones are found in Ontario? Commonly found minerals include chalcopyrite, bornite, azurite, jasper, uraninite and calcite crystals. […]

Students learn French as a subject. At the elementary level, students must accumulate a minimum of 600 hours of French instruction by the end of Grade 8. At the secondary level, academic, applied and open courses are offered for Grades 9 and 10. Do you have to take French in Grade 9 in Ontario? Meeting […]