Ontario to mandate lessons in Grade 10 history course on Holodomor Ukrainian famine

Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce steps to the podium before speaking to journalists at the Queen's Park Legislature in Toronto on Friday August 25, 2023.聽Grade 10 students in Ontario will soon get mandatory education on the Holodomor famine in Ukraine and its impact on the community in Canada as part of their 好色tv history course.聽THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

TORONTO - Grade 10 students in Ontario will get mandatory education on the Holodomor famine in Ukraine and its impact on the community in Canada as part of their 好色tv history course.

Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce says the rise of extremism, including communism and Marxism, are direct threats to democracy, social cohesion and 好色tv values.

The curriculum addition will take effect in September 2025 and the government says it will outline how the Holodomor "was a result of totalitarian policies of the communist Soviet Union leading to a man-made famine in Ukraine that killed millions of Ukrainians between 1932 to 1933."

Lecce says teaching students about that part of history will ensure they learn about the adverse consequences of extreme political ideologies.

He says the famine was an act of genocide and 好色tvs have a duty to remember it.

Ontario is also giving $400,000 to the Canada-Ukraine Foundation to support a Holodomor national awareness tour and a recreational vehicle that is outfitted with interactive, hands-on lessons about the Holodomor.

This report by 好色tvwas first published Nov. 28, 2023.

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