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Caroline Alphonso @calphonso

Health Editor for The Globe and Mail. Formerly covered education. Want to share a story idea or tip? DMs open or calphonso@globeandmail.com

Joined January 2009
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9 Oct 2025
Breaking the chain: Canada eliminated #measles decades ago, but it will lose that status on Oct. 27 – barring a "miracle" experts doubt will happen. Here’s how falling vaccine rates got us to this point and what happens after. @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…

Canada is close to losing its measles elimination status. What happens then?

Experts blame waning vaccination rates and disinformation for outbreaks that have continued for nearly a full year

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14 Dec 2024
Exclusive - Toronto school boards are firing teachers who lie about sick days — and using private investigators to catch them thestar.com/news/gta/toronto… via @torontostar #onted #tdsb #tcdsb

Toronto school boards are firing teachers who lie about sick days — and using private investigators...

Toronto school boards, struggling with skyrocketing costs of absenteeism, are turning to private investigators to help uncover sick leave abuse — and, in some cases, firing educators.

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. @picardonhealth on The Decibel: What the spread of bird flu signals about another pandemic. theglobeandmail.com/podcasts…

What the spread of bird flu signals about another pandemic

A B.C. teen is Canada’s first confirmed case of avian flu in a human

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Opinion: About that word, and about those books. Lawrence Hill writes about how teachers at the London District Catholic School Board have been told to stop teaching his novel, The Book of Negroes theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…

Opinion: About that word, and about those books

Any serious high school student knows that even literature that entertains can land with a wallop. It exists to challenge. To ask hard questions. To provoke conversations. And to stir the reader’s...

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Excited to share that I'm joining this expanded health team as health editor. I'll miss covering education, but it's time for a new challenge.
André Picard@picardonhealth
9 Oct 2024
As the debate about the future of Canada's health system heats up, the @globeandmail is expanding its health team. Joining the great @kellygrant1, will be @kkirkup, @alanna_smithh, and @channay. And more to come! via @AngelaPacienza @rachelagiese
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Students getting up to pack their bags before the bell rings. Others talking to friends during a math lesson. And more of them showing up late to class. A new study has found that these types of disruptive behaviours have increased in recent years. theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…

Students are ruder in class than before the pandemic, educators say

Students’ social skills have deteriorated after prolonged online learning during COVID, surveys show and teachers worry disruptive behaviours are spilling into society

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Union calls on four trustees at an Ontario Catholic school board to step down after lavish Italy trip that included $28,000 in public funds on airfare, $1,600 for a dinner and $15,900 for hotels in Munich and Italy. theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…

Union calls on four trustees at an Ontario Catholic school board to step down after lavish Italy...

The board has faced widespread criticism since revelations last month that four trustees spent $50,000 for a week-long trip to Italy, where they also purchased $72,000 in artwork

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Ontario school board spent $32K to send staffers to education conference in Hawaii cbc.ca/news/canada/london/la…

Ontario school board spent $32K to send staffers to education conference in Hawaii | CBC News

The Lambton Kent District School Board in southwestern Ontario spent over $32,000 to send three staff members to an education conference in Hawaii this year, according to documents obtained by CBC....

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From @acoyne: 'All my life I have been an admirer of the United States and its people. But I am frightened of it now, and I am even more frightened of them.' theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…

Opinion: Trump’s election is a crisis like no other, not only for the U.S. but the world

There is no sense in understating the depth of the disaster of Donald Trump’s re-election

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Ontario Catholic school trustees under fire for lavish Italy trip (28,000 in public funds on airfare and $1,600 for a dinner) and artwork spending theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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Sage advice from @coreymintz. Taking (Halloween) candy from a baby: A parent’s guide theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…

Opinion: Taking (Halloween) candy from a baby: A parent’s guide

We grown-ups can buy our own treats, but there is nothing so sweet as candy stolen from a child

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Ontario Catholic school board changes expenses policy following $145,000 trip to Italy for artwork theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…

Ontario Catholic school board changes expenses policy following $145,000 trip to Italy for artwork

Minister of Education’s approval now required for Trustees at the Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board to expense alcohol, upgrade hotel rooms or travel outside of North America

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29 Oct 2024
This is an important story. Even with so much going on... read it!!! This is about an expensive program to re-enroll dropouts, but it got very few students to graduation. A lot of missteps are detailed. @MilaKoumpilova @chalkbeatCHI chalkbeat.org/chicago/2024/1…

A trailblazing Chicago Public Schools program struggled to reel in dropouts

The district launched the Back to Our Future program in partnership with three nonprofits in 2022. Now, the city is looking to overhaul it.

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Missouri elementary school names building after beloved custodian cbsnews.com/news/missouri-sw…

Missouri elementary school names building after beloved custodian

Custodian Claudene Wilson is so dedicated to Swedeborg District lll Elementary School that, over the past 30 years, she has taken on many additional responsibilities.

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There has been widespread criticism in recent years over how children are taught to read. This survey from a University of Alberta professor looks at how much future teachers understand about how to teach children to read. theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…

Student teachers only answered 60% of phonics questions correctly, survey says

The survey of literacy concepts was administered by a University of Alberta professor and designed to highlight how equipped future educators are to teach children how to read

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Families of students receiving Chromebooks in equitable access program will be charged for repairs, TDSB says theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…

Families of students receiving Chromebooks in equitable access program will be charged for repairs,...

The program provides board-owned computers to students to use over a four-year period at home and at school, but the school board says there were more devices being used in schools and more costs...

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Ontario government to conduct a governance review of Catholic school board’s $145,000 trip to Italy to buy religious artwork theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…

Ontario government to investigate Catholic school board’s $145,000 trip to Italy

Education Minister Jill Dunlop says the province will send an investigator to review the procedures at the Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board in Brantford

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The trip was “undertaken in good faith to promote our Catholic identity” but the board recognized that “the optics and actions of this trip were not favorable." Ontario Catholic trustees will pay back expenses from $145,000 Italy trip theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…

Ontario government to investigate Catholic school board’s $145,000 trip to Italy

Education Minister Jill Dunlop says the province will send an investigator to review the procedures at the Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board in Brantford

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Caroline Alphonso@calphonso
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$145,000 school board art trip to Italy questioned by Education Minister Jill Dunlop theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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