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Paolo De Buono is the Principal Consultant at PDB Education. Based on Paolo’s experience in education law, management, workplace investigations, & DEI, Paolo (office based in Ontario) provides special services in public & private education across Canada.

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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Public health experts recommend public education teaching students about the use of condoms in age-appropriate grades. A third of Ontario’s public schools (those run by public Catholic school boards) teach students that using condoms is a hell-bound mortal sin. How are we in Ontario OK with this?
Michelangelo’s famous painting in the Sistine Chapel depicting hell.
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Good luck, Matias.
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That is so beautiful
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Félicitations au Parti québécois. Veuillez améliorer les droits des animaux dans la province de Québec. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/229...?
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Le PQ de PSPP remporte les élections
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon se retrouvera toutefois à la tête d'un gouvernement minoritaire, un obstacle à la tenue du référendum qu'il promet de tenir.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ontario teens' Trump-inspired board game hits 20,000 sales - American Dictator #Canada www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Ontario teens' Trump-inspired board game hits 20,000 sales
The London, Ont., teenagers behind "American Dictator," a board game inspired by Donald Trump's second term as U.S. president, are celebrating a major milestone. The team of 19 neighbourhood kids has ...
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m getting started in what is going to be a great day and great weekend at the Animal Rights & Advocacy Conference in Toronto where there will be so much learning and inspiration available. I am on a panel on Sunday morning discussing family law and companion animals in Canada.
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Jesus: “Do to others as you would have them do to you.” Public Catholic Education Leaders in Ontario like Cardinal Leo & OECTA: “It’s our right as Catholics in Ontario to have public & fully publicly-funded separate school boards. Too bad for all other religions in Ontario.” Jesus: 😢
This is a real photo in September 2026 of Cardinal Frank Leo (Archbishop of Toronto), the most influential individual in public Catholic education in Ontario (and therefore a public figure in Ontario public education policy), and Paolo De Buono.
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Maybe it is antisemitism to focus inordinately on accusing Israel of being an apartheid state when in Ontario we have “separate” public schools (run by Catholic boards) where 1) students have to be Catholic to attend & teachers have to be Catholic to work there. 🤔 www.adl.org/resources/ba...
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Allegation: Israel is an Apartheid State
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If Margaret Scott was a bit like you, the men at the time may have not been able to accept a person who was, as a woman, so bright, independent and witty.
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s #GenderEqualityWeek but public Catholic school boards across Ontario teach that women are inferior to men & that trans men are not men. These “genders are not equal” Catholic beliefs won’t change. I know. I’m Catholic. It’s time to end having separate public Catholic school boards in Ontario.
This image is based on an original photo with text added to it.
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This EU speech was one of the greatest international moments for Canada, like his speech early this year at Davos.
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thankfully, your board has been a leader among boards in religious accommodation. But involve your union if you are not accepted at the meeting or at your school or treated in other unfair ways because of you embracing your witchy ways.
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Wow!
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Merci d'avoir invité le Canada à entretenir cette relation spéciale avec l'UE.
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Animal Justice @animal-justice.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Companion animals are family, but Canadian law still treats them as property. At #ALAC2026, Marie-Claude St-Amant, Paolo De Buono, & Sophie Gaillard will unpack housing reform, "no-pet" clauses, family law shifts, & how to legally integrate the interests of companion animals 👉 bit.ly/4h7HFxu
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I interviewed Angela Saggese this morning at her campaign event. She is a York Catholic District School Board (who actively in 2023 argued & voted against that Catholic board flying the Pride flag) & is running now for Ward 1 Councillor for the City of Vaughan. Notice her non-committed 🏳️‍🌈-🏳️‍⚧️ response.
This image shows the text of the interview.
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Animal Justice @animal-justice.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
3 WEEKS AWAY! Join us at the Animal Law & Advocacy Conference, a must-attend event for animal advocates, lawyers, scholars, & students! 🐾 🗓️ October 2-4, 2026 📍 Toronto Metropolitan University ✅ Secure your spot 👇 #ALAC2026
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Animal Law & Advocacy Conference | ALAC 2026
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JanFromTheBruce 🍁 @janfromthebruce.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“There is no question in my mind that provincial supervision imposed on the TDSB was purely political,” Laskin writes. “Healthy democracies do not respond to challenges by weakening representation. #OnEdu 1/2 thecjn.ca/news/two-jew...
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Two Jewish trustees reflect on their time on the Toronto District School Board
Stacey Cline is the only Jewish incumbent seeking re-election to the TDSB in this year’s municipal election.
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A Léger poll released this weekend shows that 41% of Canadians now consider the United States an enemy country. 22% consider the US an ally. 22% consider the US a neutral country. Sadly, I am currently among the 41%. leger360.com/in-the-news-...
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Canada-U.S. Trade War: 41% of Canadians Now See the United States as an Enemy
Explore the impact of the Canada-U.S. trade war on Canadian perceptions of the United States and economic concerns.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Workers in Thunder Bay built Hawker Hurricanes. Now, they're building the next generation of VIA Rail cars. Talking Canada’s next chapter over coffee at The Persian Man with Bryan Adams.
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The “but it’s legal” argument was used by segregated white school districts in the Deep South into the 1950s to not allow Black students into white schools. In Ontario, in 2026, public Catholic school boards across Ontario are not allowing non-Catholic students into public Catholic schools. 😢
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Read his lips !
Why we should take Donald Trump seriously - my piece in the Toronto Star of September 4/5 2026
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Please show a little love too to your friends in Canada. (I’m in Toronto.) New York is my favourite city in the US, but we’re getting hit hard by your president unfair and harsh tariffs and threats to our sovereignty, and therefore so many like me are choosing for now not to travel to the US.
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Happy Caturday, Timber!
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Animal Justice has filed to take the Ontario government to the Supreme Court of Canada over its ag gag law. Despite freedom of expression guaranteed in our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Ford government has decided to protect the meat industry by preventing farm treatment info going public.
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is great news! Thank you Animal Justice.
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” - Gloria Steinem www.thestar.com/news/world/u...
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Gloria Steinem lived to see a powerful backlash against her vision of feminism
It was the fight for abortion rights that launched Gloria Steinem into feminism.
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” - Gloria Steinem Gloria Steinem worked so hard and did so much good with her brilliance for women’s rights and civil rights. www.thestar.com/news/world/u...
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Gloria Steinem lived to see a powerful backlash against her vision of feminism
It was the fight for abortion rights that launched Gloria Steinem into feminism.
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
He’s more of a Trump than an anti-Trump, and this no-media event was another example of that.
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This was my message today to a teacher-friend in an Ontario Catholic school board. It’s really sad that Catholic school boards do not promote as principal or superintendent gay persons who are openly gay in a gay marriage. Yes, it is legal in Ontario for Catholic boards to discriminate this way. 😢
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Canada pour toujours.
Le premier ministre Carney et Bryan Adams s’arrêtent devant une statue de Terry Fox à Thunder Bay, en Ontario.
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Thanks to #GoodTrouble -making teachers like @eslfairy.bsky.social & @jennyleeshee.bsky.social, the media caught on to how Staples was earning more from teachers across Ontario online than the public would pay in-store. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
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Ontario teachers have to order school supplies from a Staples portal. They found cheaper prices on Staples’ regular website
Staples Canada said Tuesday night a dedicated phone line has been set up “to respond to any price differences” and they will price match.
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Nigel is so amazing. Toronto DSB teachers are so lucky to have him as their rep.
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In 1952, in the Deep South, white Americans argued that it’s legal to have segregated schools based on skin colour. It was. In 2026, in Ontario, public Catholic ed leaders argue that it’s legal to have public Catholic schools teach anti-queer beliefs. It is. “It’s legal” is not a moral argument.
The image reads “But it’s legal!”
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
He tries to be the anti-Trump but look at his record. He: - invoked the Notwithstanding Clause several times - changed FOI laws to prevent being accountable to the public - made other undemocratic decisions such as going deliberately against city councils (eg. bike lanes). He’s so much like Trump.
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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Staples (🇺🇸) is now open for some ON teachers. How do prices stack up against the TDSB supply centre for classroom basics? TDSB: $290.38 Staples: $668.98 Staples Teachers: $584.56 But Paul Calandra took over the TDSB claiming financial mismanagement and Doug Ford wants you to #BuyCanadian. #OntEd
A chart comparing the prices for basic classroom items such as dry erase makers, tissues, and pencils for the TDSB distribution catalogue, the regular Staples website, and the Staples for Teachers website where elementary classroom teachers can spend $750 each from the $60M Doug Ford and Paul Calandra moved out of public education classrooms and programs that support students. A chart comparing the prices for basic classroom items such as dry erase makers, tissues, and pencils for the TDSB distribution catalogue, the regular Staples website, and the Staples for Teachers website where elementary classroom teachers can spend $750 each from the $60M Doug Ford and Paul Calandra moved out of public education classrooms and programs that support students. 

The totals are:
TDSB: $290.38
Staples: $668.98
Staples Teachers: $584.56
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A lot are falling for it, unfortunately.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Boycott Google, as it shamelessly panders to that idiotic vulgar slob.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
What’s worse: 1) All TX public elem schools displaying the 10 commandments & requiring the reading of some Bible stories, or 2) 1/3 of ON public elementary schools (those run by Catholic boards) teaching that hell is real & that persons in gay marriages are going there? www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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Required Bible stories for Texas students challenge separation of church and state
Passages from the Bible will now become required reading for public school students in Texas. The Republican-controlled state board of education approved the mandatory reading list on Friday, the firs...
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Donald Trump is a bully. Yet Doug Ford telling Trump that Trump can kiss his ass (etc.) was so unnecessary. He should have take the more dignified response approach of Carney. And now Ontario is facing a specific negative focus by Trump which will hurt our workers and economy, because of Ford.
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JanFromTheBruce 🍁 @janfromthebruce.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“On election day, was I happy this guy won? One hundred per cent I was,” said Ford, caught on a hot mic at his Etobicoke campaign office. 2025 election campaign! www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
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Gift-redeem
Redirecting to the article page…
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is view today from my office space looking south on downtown Toronto at the north end of the Eaton’s Centre. Through a small space between the tall buildings, I see beautiful #LakeOntario.
An image of downtown Toronto looking south from the office tower at the north end of the Eaton’s Centre.
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I was at the 10th Anniversary Celebration of The Honest Whisper earlier today during my lunch hour. I purchased some really cool and environmentally- and vegan-friendly clothing myself through the @honestwhisper.bsky.social website. thehonestwhisper.ca
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“Toddler in Chief” is one of the best descriptions of Trump that I’ve seen. 💯
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Into the 1950s, public (white) segregated schools in Texas taught that it was morally wrong to be in an interracial marriage. They effectively taught anti-Black hate but it was legal to teach that. In 2026, public Catholic schools in Ontario teach that it’s morally wrong to be in a gay marriage.
The image reads, “What is the difference, ethically?”
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Into the 1950s, public (white) segregated schools in Texas taught that it was morally wrong to be in an interracial marriage. They effectively taught anti-Black hate but it was legal to teach that. In 2026, public Catholic schools in Ontario teach that it’s morally wrong to be in a gay marriage.
The image reads, “What is the difference, ethically?”
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“Donald Trump should be kind like Dolly Parton, not a bully.” - Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow ❤️ I hope that Olivia Chow gets reelected this Fall. www.oliviachow.ca
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Olivia Chow for Mayor of Toronto
Olivia Chow is running for re-election. Let’s build a more affordable, safe and caring city.
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This public Catholic school teaches homophobia and transphobia. It teaches the official Catholic beliefs that it’s sin/evil to live authentically as a queer person. Public Catholic schools across ON teach homophobia and transphobia. It’s “constitutional/legal” in ON. How are you OK with this?
An image of a public Catholic elementary school in York Region.
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PDB Education 🇨🇦 @pdbeducation.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“America is trying to break us so that they can own us.” - Prime Minister Mark Carney Carney chose his words carefully. He knows that this is not a war on Canada by Trump. It is an attack on Canada’s sovereignty by the US led by Trump. youtube.com/shorts/Yc9o6...
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‘America is trying to break us so they can own us. That will never...’: Carney on Trump's tariff war
YouTube video by Hook Global
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