Paige MacPherson

Where this writer stands

No opinion piece by this writer has been scored on a policy topic yet.

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Recent work

• OPINION: Enrolment rising in Ontario's independent schoolsOpinion · Toronto Sun · Oct 28, 2026
• MacPHERSON: Most Canadian teachers navigating AI without trainingOpinion · Toronto Sun · Jun 23, 2026
• MacPHERSON: Two ways to free kids from digital distraction in classroomsOpinion · Toronto Sun · Apr 15, 2026
• MACPHERSON: Students across Canada need a digital detoxOpinion · Toronto Sun · Feb 22, 2026
• Paige MacPherson: B.C.’s changes to student testing deprive parents of high school rankingsOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Sep 4, 2024
• MACPHERSON: Pressure for smartphone restrictions spurring provincial changesOpinion · Toronto Sun · Aug 21, 2024
• Opinion: Alberta’s new smartphone restrictions won’t eliminate digital distractions from the classroomOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Jun 23, 2024
• MACPHERSON: Majority of Ontario parents want balance and parental consent in schoolsOpinion · Toronto Sun · Jun 11, 2024
• MacPherson and Zwaagstra: Doug Ford's smartphone restrictions in schools don’t go far enoughOpinion · Ottawa Citizen · May 8, 2024
• MACPHERSON: Doing homework on public school funding and teacher union rhetoricOpinion · Toronto Sun · Jan 5, 2024
• MACPHERSON: Smartphones hurting student learning in the classroomOpinion · Toronto Sun · Dec 28, 2023
• OPINION: Expand school choice to help end gender controversiesOpinion · Toronto Sun · Nov 14, 2023
• Opinion: B.C. teachers’ union may oppose standardized testing, but most parents support itOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Jan 28, 2022
• MacPherson: Ontario needs a plan to help kids who are falling behind in schoolOpinion · Ottawa Citizen · Jan 17, 2022
• Opinion | Most Ontario parents feel pandemic policies have hurt their child’s educationOpinion · Toronto Star · Dec 19, 2021
• MACPHERSON: Spending on public schools increases across Canada while student results declineOpinion · Toronto Sun · Sep 14, 2021
• MACPHERSON: ‘Learning pods’ and why we should fund students — not systemsOpinion · Toronto Sun · Dec 28, 2020
• MACPHERSON: Learning pods could help families and school systemOpinion · Toronto Sun · Dec 2, 2020
• MACPHERSON: Cut the red tape around pandemic learning podsOpinion · Toronto Sun · Sep 17, 2020
• Opinion: More charter schools mean better results for less moneyOpinion · Calgary Herald · Mar 15, 2019
• The salaries of Alberta's university top dogs are wildly out of touch - and a disgrace to tax payers Add to ...Opinion · The Globe and Mail · Jul 21, 2017
• Universities need to wake up and smell the sunshineOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Jul 20, 2017
• Universities need to wake up and smell the sunshineOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Jul 20, 2017
• MacPherson: Yes, a long-term property tax cut is possibleOpinion · Calgary Herald · Jun 30, 2016
• Paige MacPherson: Let's avoid a rerun of Alberta's nasty history with debtOpinion · Edmonton Journal · Mar 25, 2016