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Sunday, March 26th, 2017

Toronto school board ends all new US trips for students

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Source:     BBC (U.K.)
Publication Date:     23 March 2017
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Stephan:   First it was the Canadian Girl Guides, now Toronto, the largest school district in Canada, is cancelling school trips to the U.S.. Imagine: Canada does not feel it is safe to send their children to America. What are we becoming?

Credit: Christopher Furlong

Canada’s largest school board is cancelling new school trips to the United States until further notice. (emphasis added)

The Toronto District School Board announced the decision citing “uncertainty” with regards to who may be affected by US President Donald’s Trump’s latest travel restrictions.

Twenty-five already scheduled trips will go ahead as planned.

The school board joins the Girl Guides of Canada and a few other schools in temporarily halting travel to the US.

Under the new US travel ban, citizens from Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen would not be permitted to enter the US, unless they have already been issued valid visas, for a 90-day period.

However, the ban is suspended pending a number of court challenges.

In a statement released on Thursday, Director of Education John Malloy said that the district school board faced “a difficult choice”.

“We strongly believe that our students should not be placed into these situations of potentially being turned away at the border,” said Mr Malloy.

“For the trips that will be continuing, should students with […]

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2 Comments

  1. John Gabriel Otvos on Sunday, March 26, 2017 at 4:18 am

    I take no pleasure in writing this today. During my loudspeaker career, the Canadian people I chummed with would often say in private, that individually, Americans were kind and generous, but, as a group the tendency was to be a bully.

    The following video has little to do with Toronto’s school children cancelling trips south. This little known 10 min. video should have gone viral a long time ago, it confirms what many have suspected about American big business.

    Psychopath Bloodlines Profit From War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAHMJs-jaDY

  2. GALEN on Monday, March 27, 2017 at 9:46 am

    As I predicted, tourism is taking a major hit BC of Trump. Ask the Travel Industry of America in D.C. about the ITB show in Berlin. Largest INT’L tourism show in the world. US bookings for 2018 way down.