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Thornlea Secondary School, the Glossary

Thornlea Secondary School is a public high school, in the Regional Municipality of York, that opened in 1968 and is located in Markham, Ontario, Canada, in the Thornhill neighbourhood, on the northeast corner of Bayview Avenue and Willowbrook Road, just south of Highway 407.^[1]

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Accounting

Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the process of recording and processing information about economic entities, such as businesses and corporations.

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Acquired brain injury

Acquired brain injury (ABI) is brain damage caused by events after birth, rather than as part of a genetic or congenital disorder such as fetal alcohol syndrome, perinatal illness or perinatal hypoxia.

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Activism

Activism (or advocacy) consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good.

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Adam Korson

Adam Korson is a Canadian actor, best known for his lead role as Harry in the Canadian television sitcom Seed.

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Alicia Ross

Alicia Ross (February 8, 1980 – August 17, 2005) was a young woman from Markham, Ontario, Canada whose disappearance in August 2005 and the resulting investigation became the subject of international media coverage.

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All My Children

All My Children (often shortened to AMC) is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970, to September 23, 2011, and on The Online Network (TOLN) from April 29 to September 2, 2013, via Hulu, Hulu Plus, and iTunes.

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Alternative education

Alternative education encompasses educational philosophy differing from mainstream pedagogy and evidence-based education.

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Autism

Autism, also called autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or autism spectrum condition (ASC), is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by symptoms of deficient reciprocal social communication and the presence of restricted, repetitive and inflexible patterns of behavior that are impairing in multiple contexts and excessive or atypical to be developmentally and socioculturally inappropriate.

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B4-4

B4-4, later known as Before Four (both stylized in lowercase), was a Canadian boy band from Toronto, Ontario.

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Bill Welychka

Bill Welychka is a Canadian television personality, best known as a VJ for MuchMusic and its sister station MuchMoreMusic from 1992 to 2005.

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Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a decentralized political and social movement that seeks to highlight racism, discrimination, and racial inequality experienced by black people and to promote anti-racism.

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Blowin' Up

Blowin' Up is a comedic reality show on MTV.

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Business studies

Business studies, often simply called business, is a field of study that deals with the principles of business, management, and economics.

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By Divine Right

By Divine Right is a Canadian indie rock band led by guitarist and vocalist José Miguel Contreras.

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Cameron Mathison

Cameron Arthur Mathison (born 25 August 1969) is a Canadian-American actor and television host.

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Choir

A choir (also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers.

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Cosmetology

Cosmetology (from Greek κοσμητικός, kosmētikos, "beautifying"; and -λογία, -logia) is the study and application of beauty treatment.

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Creative writing

Creative writing is any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character development, and the use of literary tropes or with various traditions of poetry and poetics.

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Daniel Magder

Daniel Ryan Magder (born December 12, 1991) is a Canadian actor.

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DECA (organization)

DECA Inc., formerly Distributive Education Clubs of America, is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit career and technical student organization (CTSO) with more than 260,000 members in all 50 U.S. states, Washington, DC; Canada, China, Germany, India, Mexico, Poland, Puerto Rico, Spain, and Vietnam.

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Degrassi: The Next Generation

Degrassi: The Next Generation (renamed to Degrassi for seasons 10 to 14) is a Canadian teen drama television series created by Yan Moore and Linda Schuyler.

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Donnie Darko

Donnie Darko is a 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly and produced by Flower Films.

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Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.

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Dylan Sinclair

Dylan Sinclair is a Canadian R&B singer-songwriter from Toronto, Ontario, whose full-length debut album Proverb was a Juno Award nominee for Traditional R&B/Soul Recording of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2021.

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Education in Ontario

Education in Ontario comprises public and private primary schools, secondary schools and post-secondary institutions.

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Engineering

Engineering is the practice of using natural science, mathematics, and the engineering design process to solve technical problems, increase efficiency and productivity, and improve systems.

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Ernie Grunwald

Ernie Grunwald (born 1970) is a Canadian actor who has made guest appearances in a number of notable television series.

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Experiment

An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried.

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Fine art

In European academic traditions, fine art is made primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork.

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FIRST Robotics Competition

FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is an international high school robotics competition.

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Gordon Korman

Gordon Korman (born October 23, 1963) is a Canadian author of children's and young adult fiction books.

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Great Big Sea

Great Big Sea was a Canadian folk rock band from Newfoundland and Labrador, best known for performing energetic rock interpretations of traditional Newfoundland folk songs including sea shanties, which draw from the island's 500-year Irish, Scottish, and Cornish heritage.

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Hayden (musician)

Paul Hayden Desser (born February 12, 1971), who records as Hayden, is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Thornhill, Ontario.

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Heat (1995 film)

Heat is a 1995 American crime film written and directed by Michael Mann.

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HHead

hHead were a Canadian alternative rock band, formed in 1991 in Ajax.

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Indigenous rights

Indigenous rights are those rights that exist in recognition of the specific condition of indigenous peoples.

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Industrial arts

Industrial arts is an educational program that features the fabrication of objects in wood or metal using a variety of hand, power, or machine tools.

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Jason Levine

Jason Brett Levine, also known as Jay Levine, is a Canadian musician, songwriter and music producer.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Jian Ghomeshi

Jian Ghomeshi (born June 9, 1967) is a Canadian broadcaster, writer, musician, producer and former CBC personality.

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Jim Watson (Canadian politician)

James Alexander Watson (born July 30, 1961) is a Canadian politician who served as the 56th mayor of Ottawa from 2010 to 2022.

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Kai Soremekun

Kai Soremekun is a Canadian filmmaker and actor.

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Lauren Collins

Lauren Felice Collins (born August 29, 1986) is a Canadian actress, best known for portraying Paige Michalchuk on Degrassi: The Next Generation.

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Leonard Miller (basketball)

Leonard Miller (born November 26, 2003) is a Canadian professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Life with Derek

Life with Derek is a Canadian television teen sitcom that aired on Family Channel (English) and VRAK.TV (French) in Canada and on Disney Channel in the United States.

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List of secondary schools in Ontario

The following is a list of secondary schools in Ontario.

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Mark Scheinberg

(Igal) Mark Scheinberg (born 1973) is an Israeli-Canadian businessman and investor within various sectors including real estate and luxury hospitality.

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Marketing

Marketing is the act of satisfying and retaining customers.

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Markham, Ontario

Markham is a city in York Region, Ontario, Canada.

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Mike Ford (musician)

Michael John Ford is a Canadian singer-songwriter, and a former member of Toronto band Moxy Früvous.

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Moez Surani

Moez Surani (born April 10, 1979) is a Canadian poet and artist.

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Moxy Früvous

Moxy Früvous was a Canadian politically satirical folk-pop band from Thornhill, Ontario, Canada.

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Much (TV channel)

Much is a Canadian English language discretionary specialty channel owned by BCE Inc. through its Bell Media subsidiary that airs programming aimed at teenagers and young adults.

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Murray Foster

Murray Douglas Foster (born June 29, 1967) is a Canadian musician, vocalist, songwriter, director, playwright, screenwriter, and environmentalist.

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My Pet Monster

My Pet Monster is a character that began as a plush doll first produced by American Greetings in 1986.

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Noah Mintz

Noah Mintz (born September 1970) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and mastering engineer.

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Ontario Highway 407

King's Highway 407, commonly referred to as Highway 407 and colloquially as the "four-oh-seven", is a tolled 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Orchestra

An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.

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Ottawa

Ottawa (Canadian French) is the capital city of Canada.

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Pan American Games

The Pan American Games (known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas featuring summer sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions.

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Parham Aarabi

Parham Aarabi (پرهاماعرابی, born August 25, 1976) is a professor and entrepreneur from Toronto, Canada.

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Philosophy

Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.

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PokerStars

PokerStars is an online poker cardroom.

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Prototype

A prototype is an early sample, model, or release of a product built to test a concept or process.

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Prozzäk

Prozzäk (also known as Simon and Milo) are a Canadian virtual pop music duo formed by Jay Levine and James Bryan McCollum in 1998.

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Q (radio show)

q with Tom Power (previously known as Q with Jian Ghomeshi) is a Canadian arts magazine show produced by and airing on CBC Radio One, with syndication to public radio stations in the United States through Public Radio Exchange.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.

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Rob Rusnov

Robert "Rob" Rusnov (born December 9, 1973) is a Serbian Canadian archer.

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RyanDan

RyanDan (born December 5, 1979) is a Canadian musical, songwriting and producing duo, consisting of identical twins Ryan and Dan Kowarsky, whose music is a mix of pop, opera, and classical.

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Service (motor vehicle)

A motor vehicle service or tune-up is a series of maintenance procedures carried out at a set time interval or after the vehicle has traveled a certain distance.

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Sheila McCarthy

Sheila McCarthy (born January 1, 1956) is a Canadian actress and singer.

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State school

A state school, public school, or government school is a primary or secondary school that educates all students without charge.

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Stimulation

Stimulation is the encouragement of development or the cause of activity in general.

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Stuart Stone

Stuart Stone (born Stuart Eisenstein; November 17, 1980) is a Canadian actor as well as a producer of television, film and music.

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Terry Fox Run

The Terry Fox Run is an annual non-competitive charity event held around the world to raise money for cancer research in commemoration of Canadian cancer activist Terry Fox and his Marathon of Hope.

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The Cocksure Lads

The Cocksure Lads is a Canadian British Invasion-style band led by Murray Foster and Mike Ford.

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The Dishes (band)

The Dishes were a new wave band from the first era of punk rock in the late 1970s in Toronto, Canada.

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The Philosopher Kings

The Philosopher Kings are a Canadian band.

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Therapy dog

A therapy dog is a dog that is trained to provide affection, comfort and support to people, often in settings such as hospitals, retirement homes, nursing homes, schools, libraries, hospices, or disaster areas.

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Thornhill, Ontario

Thornhill is a suburban district in the Regional Municipality of York in Ontario, Canada.

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University of Toronto

The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.

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University of Waterloo

The University of Waterloo (UWaterloo, UW, or Waterloo) is a public research university with a main campus in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

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University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics

The Faculty of Mathematics is one of six faculties of the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, offering more than 500 courses in mathematics, statistics and computer science.

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Window

A window is an opening in a wall, door, roof, or vehicle that allows the exchange of light and may also allow the passage of sound and sometimes air.

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Women's rights in Iran

During the late 20th and early 21st centuries in Iran, women's rights have been severely restricted, compared with those in most developed nations.

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Woodworking

Woodworking is the skill of making items from wood, and includes cabinetry, furniture making, wood carving, joinery, carpentry, and woodturning.

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York Region District School Board

The York Region District School Board (YRDSB), until 1999, English-language Public District School Board No. 16 is the English-language public school board for the Regional Municipality of York in Ontario, Canada. The York Region District School Board is the province's third-largest school board after Toronto's TDSB and Peel's PDSB, with an enrolment of over 122,000 students.

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2018 Toronto van attack

The 2018 Toronto van attack was a vehicle-ramming attack that occurred on April 23, 2018, when a rented van was driven along Yonge Street through the North York City Centre business district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornlea_Secondary_School

Also known as Thornlea, Thornlea High School.

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