The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board circulated, then pulled, an essay contest that asked students to write about whether or not hiking minimum wage is a ‘bad policy.’ Ontario just raised its minimum wage to $14 an hour and plans to go to $15 next year. Alberta’s goes to $15 this fall. (Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg)
Sophia Harris has worked as a CBC video journalist across the country, covering everything from the start of the annual lobster fishery in Yarmouth, N.S., to farming in Saskatchewan. She now has found a good home at the business unit in Toronto where she produces for national TV news and writes and shoots and edits video for CBC.ca. Twitter: @sophiaharrisCBC
The Fraser Institute says its student essay contest — which asks if hiking minimum wage is a “bad policy” — isn’t biased, and shouldn’t have been pulled from Ottawa-area high schools.
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