 | | |  | | Alexandra Sorin, a Grade 3 public school teacher based in Toronto, said she sometimes has to spend as much as $1,500 of her own money per year for classroom supplies like glue sticks and rulers. (Submitted by Alexandra Sorin) | Some public school teachers resort to Amazon wish lists and crowdsourcing for basic supplies, often spending their own money. Alexandra Sorin is a Grade 3 public school teacher in Toronto. She told the Current that a decent portion of school supplies is coming out of her own pocket.
"I definitely spend $1,000 to $1,500 dollars every year," Sorin said.
Part of that spending goes towards basic classroom supplies like glue sticks and rulers — things outside of her classroom budget of $200 to $400, which is given to her by the school board.
"Whether you have 20 students in your class or 34 students in your class, your budget is exactly the same," she said. "So if you average that out, it's [usually] less than $9 for students for the whole year."
Sorin says she's also heard similar experiences from her teacher friends in Ottawa, Peel and the Toronto District School Board (TDSB).
Hear more on The Current. | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | Premier-designate Wab Kinew greets supporters at Winnipeg's Fort Garry Hotel after the NDP won the Manitoba election on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. (James Turner/CBC) | Wab Kinew, leader of the Manitoba NDP, win his province's election to become the first First Nations premier of a Canadian province.
Kinew spoke with The Current about becoming the first First Nations provincial leader in Canada; and delivering on campaign promises around health care, affordability and searching a landfill for two missing women.
Check out more from Front Burner and The Current. | | | | | | | | | | | |  | Nobel-winning American Hungarian scientist Katalin Karikó poses with her daughter, Susan Francia, after she won World Rowing Championships in Poznan, Poland, in 2009. (Submitted by Susan Francia) | Olympic gold medallist Susan Francia is incredibly proud of her mother, Katalin Karikó, who just won a Nobel Prize in Medicine. The biochemist was awarded alongside her colleague, vaccine researcher Drew Weissman, for their groundbreaking work that led to the development of COVID-19 vaccines.
In fact, it was Karikó's fierce dedication to science that inspired Francia to win Olympic gold medals in 2008 and 2012.
"Sport is a lot like science in that, you know, you have a passion for something and you just go and you train, attain your goal, whether it be making this discovery that you truly believe in, or for me, it was trying to be the best in the world," the retried U.S. rower said. "It's a grind and, honestly, I love that grind. And my mother did too."
Karikó, who immigrated to the U.S. from Hungary in 1985, says she's as proud of her daughter as her daughter is of her.
One of her favourite headlines so far comes from a little blurb on the rowing website Row 2K: "Rowing Mom Wins Nobel."
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