Liz Sandals 'Perplexed' About Cause Of Durham Region High School Teacher Strike

TORONTO - High school teachers in one Toronto-area board hit the picket lines Monday leaving 24,000 students out of class and the education minister "perplexed."

The strike — the first by Ontario teachers since the Liberals came to power more than a decade ago — followed the breakdown of talks at the local level with the Durham District School Board over the weekend.

It came the same day as the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation resumed talks with the province after walking away from the negotiations last week.

Ontario watchdog says Durham detective called him a terrorist on Twitter

Provincial watchdog Andre Marin said a Durham police officer called him a terrorist on Twitter Thursday, shortly before Marin announced an inquest into law enforcement guidelines in the wake of the Sammy Yatim shooting.

A user going by the name of Joe Mayo tweeted Thursday morning that the Ontario ombudsman was a “carded member” of Al Qaeda.