CBC News: Ontario Needs to Tackle $16.8B School Repair Backlog: Advocates

An NDP MPP is sounding the alarm about Ontario’s school repair backlog, posting a series of videos to social media showing flooding in a Toronto high school after heavy rainfall. As CBC’s Lorenda Reddekopp explains, the education minister said it’s up to the school board to fix the problem.

(Via CBC News) – Every time heavy rain hits Toronto's Humberside Collegiate Institute, parts of the high school shut down.

Three floors of stairs get cordoned off due to flooding. Water leaking from the roof makes its way to at least 20 spots throughout the school and collects in garbage bins. In the basement, a corridor lined with lockers is littered with deep puddles.

It's a scene Bhutila Karpoche, the NDP MPP of Parkdale—High Park described in a widely viewed series of social media posts to get the Progressive Conservative government's attention on the state of disrepair of schools in Toronto and across the province.