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More than 200 classrooms in Winnipeg public schools don’t meet the provincial target for teacher-to-student ratios in kindergarten through Grade 3, and that number is likely far higher due to incomplete data. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * More than 200 classrooms in Winnipeg public schools don’t meet the provincial target for teacher-to-student ratios in kindergarten through Grade 3, and that number is likely far higher due to incomplete data. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? More than 200 classrooms in Winnipeg public schools don’t meet the provincial target for teacher-to-student ratios in kindergarten through Grade 3, and that number is likely far higher due to incomplete data. the end of November, all city school divisions had published online dashboards in line with the provincial directive to make class size averages available to the public. The Kinew government asked divisions to meet a 1:20 ratio for all K-3 classes in 2024-25. Grade 4 to 8 class sizes have more leeway, with the goal of 1:25. Where those ratios were not met, school leaders were asked to devise a plan to bolster support for children — be it via reassigning educational assistants, introducing rotational teachers or otherwise — and submit it to the province before Nov. 30. From a divisionwide standpoint, River East Transcona, Seven Oaks and Winnipeg are meeting or come under the targets for both groups. Louis Riel and St. James-Assiniboia K-3 averages are slightly higher, at 20.3 and 20.2. Pembina Trails is an outlier with an average of 21.3 students in K-3 classes and 25.4 in the older elementary grades. Cameron Hauseman, an associate professor at the University of Manitoba with expertise in educational governance, called the rollout of new dashboards and their utility “very disappointing.” Hauseman noted the NDP initiative sought to make divisions more accountable to the public, but some are releasing high-level information and there is little consistency among the datasets. The Winnipeg School Division has launched an interactive hub that breaks down Sept. 30 enrolment at each school by grade with an option to review immersion-specific statistics. River East Transcona, the second largest in the province after WSD, has posted a PDF with Oct. 3 data. Others refresh their websites with real-time data. “The fact that they’ve just let their divisions run rampant and left them to their own devices in this regard (has) created a bit of a transparency sinkhole.” Given class sizes affect student outcomes, public reporting is valuable because parents can take ratios into account when enrolling children, and teachers can use it when job hunting, Hauseman said. The researcher said it can also help inform and explain decisions about changes to catchments and division boundaries. “In the event that class sizes are being seen to grow beyond (ratios), it could result in important conversations related to space in schools and/or the availability of teachers and (education assistants),” Sandy Nemeth, president of the Manitoba School Boards Association, said in an email. Along with sharing the annual school funding announcement in February, Education Minister Nello Altomare said divisions were to begin reporting publicly on average class sizes this fall. At the time, Altomare – who has been on medical leave for the last two months – said his vision was for all divisions to run similar dashboards to the one operated by the Louis Riel School Division. The St. Vital board is known for its extensive data collection and reporting. Its online class size tracker, which is updated at the end of every school day, allows users to sort through building-level data and grade-specific averages at each site. As of Monday, the tracker shows 14 of LRSD’s 33 buildings with early and middle years programming have average ratios that surpass provincial targets. “The number only tells one part of the story.” Lavallee School has the lowest K-3 average with 17 students. École Sage Creek School is home to the division’s highest average – 22.9 pupils in those grades. Nemeth, a longtime trustee in LRSD, said some divisions would need additional technological or staff capacity to implement detailed dashboards. Superintendents and trustees were sent a reporting template on Sept. 23, and asked to make data public on their respective websites by the end of November. Hauseman said leaders appear to need more direction so there can be apple-to-apple comparisons. “The province has an obligation to step up and show some leadership in regards to transparency,” he said, noting that both Ontario and B.C. have impressively detailed reporting requirements in contrast to Manitoba. “It’s what they ran on as part of their policy platform, as part of their election campaign – and the fact that they’ve just let their divisions run rampant and left them to their own devices in this regard (has) created a bit of a transparency sinkhole.” Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. The leader of the Manitoba Teachers’ Society welcomed the public datasets and their potential to be used by members to advocate for fair working conditions. DARRYL DYCK / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILES However, union president Nathan Martindale suggested classroom composition is just as important as class size. “The number only tells one part of the story... More often than not, students in any given classroom are presenting with a lot more challenges and needs than in previous years,” Martindale said. In a statement, Tracy Schmidt, acting minister of education, said the data reporting is “a first step” to help her office better understand where there are larger class sizes so officials can work with divisions to reduce them. maggie.macintosh@freepress.mb.ca Maggie Macintosh reports on education for the . Originally from Hamilton, Ont., she joined the newsroom as a reporter in 2019. . Funding for the education reporter comes from the Government of Canada through the . Every piece of reporting Maggie produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the ‘s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about , and . Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider . Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support. Maggie Macintosh reports on education for the . Originally from Hamilton, Ont., she joined the newsroom as a reporter in 2019. . Funding for the education reporter comes from the Government of Canada through the . Every piece of reporting Maggie produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the ‘s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about , and . Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. 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Stock market today: Wall Street hits more records following a just-right jobs reportWhen I think back on what I read his year, on what stuck, and stuck , refusing to unstick, the common denominator was my surprise at my own surprise. A fresh take! A subject I’d assumed I knew! An antidote to heard-it-all-before-ism, that cynicism we develop from having access to every story ever told, every opinion ever voiced and every song ever sung, behind a black mirror in your pocket. Cults? Bret Anthony Johnston’s “We Burn Daylight” found a love story in the old ugliness of Waco. Dystopia? The heroine of Anne de Marcken’s “It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over” is dead, yet still longing for a failed world. Chicago’s Jesse Ball, never at a loss for experimenting, returned with “The Repeat Room,” mashing Kafka, fascism and our courts into a revealing sorta-thriller. And those aren’t even three of my 10 favorite books of 2024. Surely you have your own? Social media is awash in lists of reads from last month, last week, last year, driven by the same shock of recognition that there’s plenty new under the sun. “Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil,” by Chicago’s Ananda Lima, impressively remade the Faustian bargain. James Marcus’ “Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson”; Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ “Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde”; Keith O’Brien’s “Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose and the Last Glory Days of Baseball” — each a cool breeze in the typically formal category of biography. Ian Frazier’s “Paradise Bronx” found a wandering epic in the history of a neglected borough; Tana French continued to retool detective writing in “The Hunter”; and Katherine Rundell’s “Vanishing Treasures” not only brought a strange, hilarious appreciation to endangered animals, her underrated fantasy “Impossible Creatures” invented a world of new ones. Rebecca Boyle’s glowing history “Our Moon” looked into the sky and reminded us that seeing something every day is not the same as knowing it. None of those books are in my top 10, either. That’s how much good stuff there was. What follows then are 10 favorites, the stickiest of stickers, in no order. If you need a stack of fresh takes for 2025, start here: “Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy and the Trial That Riveted a Nation” by Brenda Wineapple: If you’re eager for answers to the presidential election, start here. If you’re merely looking for gripping history you assumed you knew — ditto. Wineapple, one of our great contemporary American historians, recounts the players, causes and events leading to the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925. A Tennessee school teacher, accused of teaching evolution, was defended by Chicago’s Clarence Darrow. But as Wineapple shows with impeccable research and accessible storytelling this was never about proving science, but about harnessing intolerance and exploiting the national tension between ignorance and truth. Wineapple doesn’t explicitly lay out the trial’s resonance 100 years later. She doesn’t need to. “Headshot” by Rita Bullwinkel: Debut novel of the year, a sports drama that doesn’t find headlong momentum in triumph but how a group of teenage girls define themselves through competition and each other. Structured around seven bouts at an amateur tournament in Nevada, Bullwinkle’s novel pulls readers in and out of real-time thoughts, pausing over futures. One boxer will be a wedding planner; another won’t be able to hold a cup of tea, her teen boxing reaching out into old age. In their minds is where the action is most brutal: Some can’t shake tragedies; some find themselves fond of violence. Bullwinkle keeps us in the moment, never parsing their psychology, and certainly not leading us toward cinematic bombast. One fighter, as she wins, notices “warmth radiating through her chest.” But it’s a warmth, Bullwinkle writes, “she’ll feel again very few times in her life.” “James” by Percival Everett: I didn’t want to include this. If only because, if you’re up on literary fiction, you expect it. This is the book of the year , an instant classic. What’s left to say? Well, it’s one of the few instances when the hype matches the quality. Everett, whose decades of obscurity are now gone, is on all burners here — humor, pacing, language, making room for a reader to rest. His companion to “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is too alive to be a 21st-century corrective. Reading Twain is not necessary, only knowing that Everett’s James was Twain’s simple and loyal Jim. And James is boundless, turning on and off his intellect to appease white people, noting the irony of having to pretend that he doesn’t understand the word “irony,” always playing the long game to escape from slavery: “I never felt more exposed or vulnerable as I did in the light of day with a book open.” “Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV” by Emily Nussbaum: You’re wondering: Do we need this book? Nussbaum, who won a Pulitzer Prize as TV critic for the New Yorker, asks it herself. Then directs us to a better question: Who knew the development of the most hated TV genre offered so much insight into social experiments, human cruelty, technology and the blur between high and low art? It’s a poke through roots (“The Gong Show,” cinema verite) and a cache of interviews (including Rodney Alcala, the killer subject of Netflix’s “Woman of the Hour”). Nussbaum is such a fun guide you reveal in your own rubbernecking even as you sweat the apocalyptic ramifications of, she writes, “filmmaking that has been cut with commercial contaminants, like a street drug, in order to slash the price and intensify the effect.” “The History of Sound: Stories” by Ben Shattuck: Ever close a book and just ... sigh? There’s nothing overtly gimmicky to the dozen stories in this graceful collection, rooted in New England pubs and logging camps and prep schools, spanning the 1600s to now. Shattuck — whose excellent “Six Walks” retraced the footsteps of Thoreau — is more interested in natural echos of ambivalence, uniting characters across stories without fuss, in sometimes funny ways. One tale, a harrowing account of a lost utopian community in backwoods Maine, is revisited in another tale, but as an academic paper written centuries later that gets the history of that community completely wrong. A (faux) Radiolab transcript about the mysterious photo of an extinct seabird is matched later to a bittersweet response, the story of the struggling husband who snapped the picture. If it sounds like last year’s “North Woods” (also set in New England, spanning centuries), that’s not a bad thing. “The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America” by Sarah Lewis: Lewis, a Harvard University cultural historian with a specialty in how visual arts shape the world, is one of a few innovators worthy of that overused title “disruptor.” She works here in the period from the Civil War to Jim Crow, showing how civic leaders (Woodrow Wilson, P.T. Barnum) willfully disregarded evidence that race was a myth, establishing racial hierarchy. It’s a fascinating history of cultural blindness, centered on the Caucasus region in Europe, from which we derive “caucasian,” and where scholars rooted whiteness. Americans sympathized with the Caucasus people as they went to war against Russia — and then photos circulated showing a population far from just white. It’s a handsome, art-filled book about how choosing to ignore facts creates the illusion of truth. “Everyone Who is Gone is Here: The United States, Central America and the Making of a Crisis” by Jonathan Blitzer: Clarity. If there’s something Blitzer, a New Yorker staff writer, brings to the intractable debate on immigration, it’s an accessible, unimpeachable clear-eyed account of how the US came to the assumption that fixing the border crisis was either simple (“Deport!”) or, as he quotes Rahm Emanuel, so broken it’s “the third rail of American politics.” This urgent, sad freight train of reporting doesn’t offer solutions, but rather, a compelling origin tale for why the influx of Central America migrants and the fear of immigration in the United States are pure cause-and-effect, and how the U.S. bears responsibility. We meet families, policymakers, border officials, activists, and get a history lesson full of military actions perpetrated by U.S. corporations, cash and politics. “The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster” by John O’Connor: Ignore the title. This isn’t that book. It’s a tale of how folklore gathers steam, why we believe what we want to believe, and what happens when “the unbelievable is the only thing people believe,” facts be damned. O’Connor, a journalist from Kalamazoo, Michigan, cleverly uses the legend of Sasquatch and those who think too much about him to explore the persistence of hope beyond hope. Along the way, it’s also an entertaining travelogue of local legends, true believers and the sort of dense acreage seen from planes that could hold anything — right? O’Connor himself is skeptical of a massive wildman on the loose, but gracefully honors the metaphor and sacred beliefs required for myths, zeroing with wit and curiosity why it’s an essential fact of humanity that we need mystery to go on. “Lazarus Man” by Richard Price: I think of Price, that great chronicler of city life, author of “Clockers,” screenwriter for “The Wire,” as a community novelist, in the tradition of “Winesburg, Ohio” and “The Bridge of San Luis Rey.” No more so than with this discursive, pointedly meandering novel, his first in a decade. His writing mimics hardboiled noir then settles on the multitudes, the granular detail, staccato dialogue. Loiters are “a languid pride of lions.” A sudden apartment collapse generates a “night-for-day rolling black cloud.” That mysterious implosion of a five-story apartment complex in East Harlem is just a catalyst for a cataloging of the lives transformed in its aftermath: the unlikely media star created by merely surviving, a cop sleeping with her partner, a mortician who wants his card thrust into the hands of whoever watches the rescue. And on. Why the building fell is an afterthought to the ways we doubt ourselves, transcend and move on, imperfectly. “Orbital” by Samantha Harvey: Speaking of rhapsodic community novels. Here is the story of six astronauts on the international space station, circling Earth at 17,000 miles per hour, on an average day, peering down at a seemingly uninhabited planet. Or as Harvey describes, only alive when day goes to night and lights flick on. This is a novel of distance and perspective, with no real plot. Aliens wander past, but don’t invade. The station turns without incident. No one goes nuts. And yet, in lyrical bursts, our travelers soak in cosmic hugeness: “Sometimes they want to see the theatrics, the opera, the earth’s atmosphere, airglow, and sometimes it’s the smallest things, the lights of fishing boats off the coast of Malaysia.” Harvey is out to reclaim wonder itself from everyday lack of interest — and in a way, reclaim the novel as a place for feeling . Mission accomplished.

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Civil liberties campaigners have criticised the use of such technology, and advocacy group Big Brother Watch has launched legal action to stop its expansion. “The technology works by creating a ‘faceprint’ of everyone who passes in front of camera – processing biometric data as sensitive as a fingerprint, often without our knowledge or consent,” the group says on is website. “This dangerously authoritarian surveillance is a threat to our privacy and freedoms - it has no place on the streets of Britain,” it adds. The Met says it is a “forerunner” in using the technology, adding that it helps “make London safer” by helping detect “offenders who pose significant risks to our communities”. Of the 540 arrests, more then 50 were for serious offences involving violence against women and girls, including offences such as strangulation, stalking, domestic abuse and rape. More than 400 of those arrested have already been charged or cautioned. “This technology is helping us protect our communities from harm,” said Ms Lindsey Chiswick, the Met’s director of performance. “It is a powerful tool that supports officers to identify and focus on people who present the highest risk that may otherwise have gone undetected,” she added. Responding to privacy fears, police said that the biometric data of any passer-by not on a watchlist is “immediately and permanently deleted”. AFP Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you. Read 3 articles and stand to win rewards Spin the wheel nowA FINE STRIKE from Connor Roberts was not enough to take Burnley to the top of the Championship as they were held to a 1-1 draw by Middlesbrough. The Welshman bent in a shot from 25 yards in the 37th minute, but Burnley needed that to cancel out Anfernee Dijksteel’s 13th-minute opener on a night when Turf Moor was battered by wind and rain. 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Jimmy Carter’s ascent to the White House was something few people could have predicted when he was governor of the US state of Georgia. It was no different for Jimmy Carter in the early 1970s. It took meeting several presidential candidates and then encouragement from an esteemed elder statesman before the young governor, who had never met a president himself, saw himself as something bigger. He announced his White House bid on December 12 1974, amid fallout from the Vietnam War and the resignation of Richard Nixon. Then he leveraged his unknown, and politically untainted, status to become the 39th president. That whirlwind path has been a model, explicit and otherwise, for would-be contenders ever since. “Jimmy Carter’s example absolutely created a 50-year window of people saying, ‘Why not me?’” said Steve Schale, who worked on President Barack Obama’s campaigns and is a long-time supporter of President Joe Biden. Mr Carter’s journey to high office began in Plains, Georgia where he received end-of-life care decades after serving as president. David Axelrod, who helped to engineer Mr Obama’s four-year ascent from state senator to the Oval Office, said Mr Carter’s model is about more than how his grassroots strategy turned the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary into his springboard. “There was a moral stain on the country, and this was a guy of deep faith,” Mr Axelrod said. “He seemed like a fresh start, and I think he understood that he could offer something different that might be able to meet the moment.” Donna Brazile, who managed Democrat Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign, got her start on Mr Carter’s two national campaigns. “In 1976, it was just Jimmy Carter’s time,” she said. Of course, the seeds of his presidential run sprouted even before Mr Nixon won a second term and certainly before his resignation in August 1974. In Mr Carter’s telling, he did not run for governor in 1966, he lost, or in 1970 thinking about Washington. Even when he announced his presidential bid, neither he nor those closest to him were completely confident. “President of what?” his mother, Lillian, replied when he told her his plans. But soon after he became governor in 1971, Mr Carter’s team envisioned him as a national player. They were encouraged in part by the May 31 Time magazine cover depicting Mr Carter alongside the headline “Dixie Whistles a Different Tune”. Inside, a flattering profile framed Mr Carter as a model “New South” governor. In October 1971, Carter ally Dr Peter Bourne, an Atlanta physician who would become US drug tsar, sent his politician friend an unsolicited memo outlining how he could be elected president. On October 17, a wider circle of advisers sat with Mr Carter at the Governor’s Mansion to discuss it. Mr Carter, then 47, wore blue jeans and a T-shirt, according to biographer Jonathan Alter. The team, including Mr Carter’s wife Rosalynn, who died aged 96 in November 2023, began considering the idea seriously. “We never used the word ‘president’,” Mr Carter recalled upon his 90th birthday, “but just referred to national office”. Mr Carter invited high-profile Democrats and Washington players who were running or considering running in 1972, to one-on-one meetings at the mansion. He jumped at the chance to lead the Democratic National Committee’s national campaign that year. The position allowed him to travel the country helping candidates up and down the ballot. Along the way, he was among the Southern governors who angled to be George McGovern’s running mate. Mr Alter said Mr Carter was never seriously considered. Still, Mr Carter got to know, among others, former vice president Hubert Humphrey and senators Henry Jackson of Washington, Eugene McCarthy of Maine and Mr McGovern of South Dakota, the eventual nominee who lost a landslide to Mr Nixon. Mr Carter later explained he had previously defined the nation’s highest office by its occupants immortalised by monuments. “For the first time,” Mr Carter told The New York Times, “I started comparing my own experiences and knowledge of government with the candidates, not against ‘the presidency’ and not against Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. It made it a whole lot easier”. Adviser Hamilton Jordan crafted a detailed campaign plan calling for matching Mr Carter’s outsider, good-government credentials to voters’ general disillusionment, even before Watergate. But the team still spoke and wrote in code, as if the “higher office” were not obvious. It was reported during his campaign that Mr Carter told family members around Christmas 1972 that he would run in 1976. Mr Carter later wrote in a memoir that a visit from former secretary of state Dean Rusk in early 1973 affirmed his leanings. During another private confab in Atlanta, Mr Rusk told Mr Carter plainly: “Governor, I think you should run for president in 1976.” That, Mr Carter wrote, “removed our remaining doubts.” Mr Schale said the process is not always so involved. “These are intensely competitive people already,” he said of governors, senators and others in high office. “If you’re wired in that capacity, it’s hard to step away from it.” “Jimmy Carter showed us that you can go from a no-name to president in the span of 18 or 24 months,” said Jared Leopold, a top aide in Washington governor Jay Inslee’s unsuccessful bid for Democrats’ 2020 nomination. “For people deciding whether to get in, it’s a real inspiration,” Mr Leopold continued, “and that’s a real success of American democracy”. We do not moderate comments, but we expect readers to adhere to certain rules in the interests of open and accountable debate.

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Rampart Casino’s Rampart Rewards club program offers exclusive resort benefits and rewards based on play, including dining, spa and golf discounts as well as complimentary room nights at the JW Marriott Las Vegas Resort & Spa. For the latest Rampart Casino news, follow on Facebook , Instagram and X . Contact the casino at (702) 507-5900. About JW Marriott Las Vegas Resort & Spa The JW Marriott Las Vegas Resort & Spa is a world-class luxury destination just 20 minutes northwest of the famous Las Vegas Strip. The resort is a gateway to the stunning Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, TPC Las Vegas and numerous other premier golf courses and attractions. The property includes 548 well-appointed guest rooms and suites, nestled among 54 acres of lush landscaping and gardens. 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About JW Marriott Hotels & Resorts JW Marriott is part of Marriott International’s luxury portfolio and consists of beautiful properties and distinctive resort locations around the world. These elegant hotels cater to sophisticated, self-assured travelers seeking The JW TreatmentTM – the brand’s philosophy that true luxury is created by people who are passionate about what they do. JW hotels offer crafted experiences that bring to life the brand’s commitment to highly choreographed, anticipatory service and modern residential design, allowing guests to pursue their passions and leave even more fulfilled than when they arrived. Today there are 80 JW Marriott hotels in nearly 30 countries and territories. JW Marriott is proud to participate in the industry’s award-winning loyalty program, Marriott Rewards® which includes The Ritz-Carlton Rewards®. 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View source version on businesswire.com : https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241206179365/en/ CONTACT: Media contact: Denyce Tuller, B&P Public Relations,dtuller@bpadlv.com, (702) 375-5539 KEYWORD: NEVADA UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: SOFTWARE ENTERTAINMENT MOBILE ENTERTAINMENT INTERNET VACATION APPS/APPLICATIONS TECHNOLOGY LODGING DESTINATIONS TRAVEL GENERAL ENTERTAINMENT ELECTRONIC GAMES CASINO/GAMING SOURCE: Rampart Casino Copyright Business Wire 2024. PUB: 12/06/2024 02:30 PM/DISC: 12/06/2024 02:30 PM http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241206179365/enSome Canadian seniors say they're feeling abandoned by the Liberal government's latest inflation relief measure after learning they don't qualify for it. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that his government would send $250 cheques to the 18.7 million people in Canada who worked in 2023 and earned $150,000 or less. Those cheques, which the government is calling the "Working Canadians Rebate," are expected to be delivered in "early spring 2025," Trudeau said. Anyone who was not working in 2023, such as people who were retired or receiving social assistance, are ineligible. The $250 cheques will cost about $4.68 billion, a Finance official told CBC News. Trudeau government to send $250 cheques to most people, slash GST on some goods What the GST holiday means for consumers — and why some economists are worried Neil Pierce, a 69-year-old Edmonton resident, called the cheques a "political handout." He said he is "astonished" that the federal government plans on giving "money to people who were working and, in some cases, making an awful lot of money." Neil Pierce, 69, said he was 'astonished' to learn who is eligible for the payments. (Submitted by Neil Pierce) As a retiree and recipient of Old Age Security (OAS) and Canada Pension Plan (CPP) payments, Pierce is ineligible for the cheque. "I feel that a lot of us are left behind through this announcement," he said. "The rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer as a result." Pierce said his 99-year-old mother, who also receives CPP and OAS payments, was "excited" when she first heard the news but was disappointed when he explained to her that she wouldn't get a cheque. Elizabeth Mary Donlevy — a 93-year-old from Woodstock, Ont. — said she was "incensed" after hearing the prime minister say the measure would apply only to Canadians working last year. "Every time I think about this, I think of the discrimination that goes on constantly against seniors," she said. "He's penalizing people for being over 65." Donlevy said the announcement suggests seniors should be "out there working on getting a living so that we are eligible for his largesse." She said that for some seniors on fixed incomes, $250 "would mean a whole lot," while people with six-figure incomes might it for granted. "If they make that amount of money ... I admire them and I hope they get everything they can, but it shouldn't be at the expense of seniors," she said. Steven Laperrière, general manager of Regroupement des activistes pour l'inclusion au Québec (RAPLIQ) — a Montreal-based advocacy group for people with disabilities — said he has "mixed emotions" about the program because a lot of vulnerable people won't be eligible. "You're stigmatizing them a little bit further," he said. "And it's very frustrating to interpret it like that, but that's how they're receiving this." "You're telling them, 'Well, sorry guys ... it's not your fault you can't work or you're not finding any work because of your disability, but you cannot have that cheque.'" Cheques meant to 'recognize hardworking' Canadians: PM NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Thursday that his party will support the affordability measures and work with the Liberals to temporarily lift the logjam in Parliament to get the bill through. That didn't stop New Democrat Peter Julian, MP for Westminster—Burnaby, from criticizing the measure during question period on Friday after asking why some vulnerable people would be excluded. "The Liberals' new plan misses the mark," he said. "Liberals are letting people on fixed incomes down yet again." WATCH | Trudeau says government isn't reducing programs for most vulnerable : Trudeau asked why $250 cheques only going to working Canadians 5 hours ago Duration 2:02 Defending his latest affordability plan, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asked why groups of people, like some retirees, will not be receiving $250 stimulus cheques. Trudeau said the newest measure is about saying thank you to working, middle-class Canadians. At a news conference Friday afternoon in Brampton, Ont., Trudeau said his government has been "extraordinarily present in helping the most vulnerable Canadians," citing a 10 per cent increase to OAS and an increase to the Canada child benefit. He said he regularly hears from working Canadians who are struggling to make ends meet. "We're not reducing any of the other programs we're delivering to the most vulnerable but recognizing hardworking Canadians," he said. "It's about seeing Canadians as the hardworking nation-builders they are and giving them that support that they need at this time of challenge."