Mario De Ciccio
CBC/Radio-Canada journalist
Mario De Ciccio is the first and only journalist for CBC/Radio-Canada’s french services in the Northwest Territories. He works on everything NWT, with a focus on the francophone community. You can reach him at [email protected] and on Twitter @MDeCiccio.
Latest from Mario De Ciccio
N.W.T. education minister to appeal order to reassess denial of 6 students to French schools
The government of the Northwest Territories doesn't want to reassess what a judge called "unreasonable" denial of six children into its francophone schools in Yellowknife and Hay River last summer.
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Reassess 'unreasonable' denial of 6 students to French school, orders N.W.T. judge
The Northwest Territories Supreme Court has ruled against a decision by former education minister, now Premier Caroline Cochrane, to refuse admitting six children to the territory's francophone schools in Yellowknife and Hay River last summer.
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N.W.T. education minister refuses 5 families access to French schools
Late Friday afternoon, Northwest Territories Education Minister Caroline Cochrane rejected applications for five non-rights holder families, four in Yellowknife and one in Hay River.
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Judge orders N.W.T. minister to reconsider case of child denied French school admission
A Yellowknife mother and the N.W.T.'s French school board are welcoming a court decision ordering that the territorial education minister reconsider her refusal to admit a child in the city's francophone school.
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Yellowknife mother fights in court to get her child admitted to French school
In their application for judicial review, the applicants argue Education Minister Caroline Cochrane misused her discretion by refusing that the child, born in Canada from new immigrants and non-rights holder parents, be enroled in École Allain St-Cyr last fall.
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