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DOES ALL-DAY KINDERGARTEN PAY OFF?
Photo: Children listen to their teacher in a kindergarten class in Toronto, Monday, Jan.20, 2003. In school cafeterias, roti and rice dishes are on offer alongside hamburgers and fries. On the playground, children chat in Urdu and Tagalog. Holiday lessons focus on Kwanza as well as Christmas. Such is the changing face of urban Canadian schools striving to accommodate the children of immigrants who are arriving at a rate not seen since 1931. (CP PHOTO/Frank Gunn)
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