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2022 was a major year for Canadians. It was a year full of protests, global conflict and political leadership changeups. These are the top 10 most influential stories of 2022 and what they might mean for the upcoming year. 

Scholars at Montreal’s Concordia University are planning to trace and counter what they say is colonialism in physics, which they describe as a “social field” rather than one of “pure knowledge.”

We hear very little from our education minister, Stephen Lecce, who claims to care that students learn the kind of skills and curriculum that allow them to graduate to good-paying jobs.

The national governing body of figure skating has gutted “man” and “woman” from its official vocabulary and will instead opt for terms more in line with gender ideology. 

Critics have accused her of pushing “pro-Putin, pro-Russian separatist propaganda,” but that didn’t stop Russian President Vladimir Putin from placing Alberta Premier Danielle Smith on his latest sanctions list.

"It seems the board is far more concerned about legal action from the teacher or her union than allowing students to learn in an environment where a teacher doesn’t look like a caricature of a drag performer – and a rather freaky one at that."

An Ontario school board is demanding the Ontario government removes a clause from the Education Act that says teachers’ duties should include encouraging “love of country” and “Judeo-Christian morality”, among other values.

The transgender high school teacher who caused an international sensation by sporting outlandish mammoth breasts and tight tops to her shop class is not an employee with the Halton school board, True North has learned.

"What makes the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation...ill-conceived, even retrogressive, is its failure to acknowledge and address the real adversities facing many indigenous people."

"It is likely that in the coming days we will see a battle play out between activist-scholars and traditional scholars in which the former will castigate the latter as 'residential school denialists.' But more to the point, we will see a battle over truth."