Take off blinders about owning a ranch

A disciplinary panel has ordered the cancellation of a Chinese-Canadian teacher’s certificate because of her “repeated boundary-crossing with a student” during her tenure at an international school with local ties.

Janice Wen Ying Ma is permanently barred from teaching on Manitoba soil or at a Manitoba-accredited institution as of Sept. 14.

The new ruling concludes that Ma engaged in inappropriate physical interaction and “emotionally intimate online messages” with a girl who attended Clifford International School in Guangzhou, China in 2024-25.

“This conduct represents a fundamental departure from the standards expected of a teacher,” the panel, chaired by public representative Gordon Schumacher, wrote in its 22-page decision.

Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: My husband has made and invested a lot of money and he is now a wealthy man. He wants to move out of the city and have a horse farm. He has talked of nothing else since we went to the Cavalia Odysseo show. I went once — it was a beautiful show, but once was enough — and he went many times. I don’t want to breed horses or whatever crazy thing he wants to do. He retired recently, but I’m not, and I love my job, which is very social and keeps me in the city. What should I do to stop this foolishness?

— Not Going To Happen, Southdale

Dear Not Going to Happen: Standing in the way of a partner’s dream is a big mistake, especially when they have the means to make it a reality. You don’t say your husband is asking you to retire, he’s asking you to commute. Can you persuade him to look at having his ranch very near the city limits? Sometimes a commute is less time-consuming than a drive through the centre of the city at rush hour.

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