Some local schools are closed today, amid a one-day strike by members of a major teachers' union.
The targeted strike by the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation includes both the local English public and English Catholic school boards - as well as all local French public and French Catholic schools - though only the Algoma District School Board and the Conseil scolaire catholique Nouvelon are closing their schools for the day.
The ADSB is also cancelling School Council and school-based meetings, activities, and sports - as well as adult and continuing education classes - though all community use of schools is allowed to continue as normal.
Meanwhile, the Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board says its schools are staying open - as the union only represents about 30 noon-hour aides with the board - and the Conseil scolaire public du Grand-Nord de l'Ontario is also assuring that it's keeping its schools open, with before and after school programs offered as normal.
While the OSSTF has held multiple one-day strikes since starting work-to-rule job action in late November, this is only the second to affect local schools, after a province-wide strike in early December.