I know I shouldn’t feel spasms of Alberta smugness about the chaotic state of Ontario higher-education admissions, explained superbly for CBC News by Mike Crawley. This was a tragedy, although one exacerbated by the pandemic, that you could see coming a quarter-century ago. “Before the COVID-19 pandemic,” Crawley writes, “the grades of Ontario high school students had increased gradually but steadily for years.” An education prof is on hand in the story to say that this could simply have been due to the ever-intensifying brilliance of Ontario students. And who would doubt it?
