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The start of the school year has been delayed for hundreds of students in Winnipeg thanks to mould and moisture-related damage

Two school divisions announced disruptions to their scheduled programming this week owing to building safety.

“It’s not the start of the school year that anybody hopes for,” said Jackie Connell, superintendent of the Louis Riel School Division.

Nordale School is anticipated to be closed for four months as crews clean up “substantial” destruction from a storm on the long weekend, Connell said.

On Oct. 28, Manitobans will once again elect the people who serve on our local school boards. School trustee races rarely attract the attention given to other elections. Yet school boards are among our most immediate forms of representative democracy.

Before asking who should be a school trustee, perhaps we should ask a more basic question:

What, exactly, are we electing a school trustee to do?

Trustees are elected to govern a school division. They are not elected to run it.

It’s the beginning of the school year and the now-annual conversation every teacher and professor has to have with students about the ethics of using artificial intelligence.

It used to be that computers were a tool primarily used to express an individual’s creativity, critical thought and support their research.

Nowadays, and especially since the invention of the internet, computers come with AI programs that instantly summarize vast amounts of data, create content and images, and even write 10-page essays based on information found on sites from across the world.

This is why AI, whether people like it or not, is basically theft – or the action of using someone else’s ideas and creations without the consent of the original creator.