Damn, Ólafur Grímsson, President of Iceland, is getting cocky. For good reason of course. Keeping the people that run your country and businesses educated and healthy = productivity and innovation. Shocked I am. Positively aghast. 🙂 Filed under: Education, International Affairs, Politics Tagged: Neo-Liberal Troll Bait., Nordic Countries,
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Dead Wild Roses: Oooo..Context.
Us humans seem to have trouble keeping the big picture in focus while we faff about feeling important about ourselves. Mother Nature just doesn’t have time for us or our problems. It is nice to be reminded of that periodically. Filed under: Education Tagged: Context, Humanity, Mother Nature
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: An Open Letter to Janet Fraser
Dear Janet Fraser, First of all, let me start by congratulating you on your school board election victory this past Saturday. I voted for you enthusiastically, as I did your running mate Mischa Oak and the rest of the Green Party team on the city council and park board slates.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: You Can’t Say That in English! – Untranslatable Words.
I’m a big fan of the German word – whenever I pick up tools, verschlimmbessern is often the result. :> [Source] Filed under: Education Tagged: Ethnosphere, Helpful Infographics, Language, Things You Can’t Say In English
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Noam Chomsky Spoke at the UN in October – I Didn’t Hear About it Either.
Ah, the joy of the free press down in the US. Let’s catch up with Noam as takes us through some possible solutions to the Palestine/Israel conflict. Filed under: Education, International Affairs, Media Tagged: Israel, Noam Chomsky, Palestine, UN
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Do Something Useful Remembrance Day – Dirty Wars Documentary- Jeremy Scahill
You know what Remembrance Day should be for? 1. Remembering all those who have died in war. Precedence on the civilian deaths, because they die at far higher rate than any established military force. 2. Educate yourself as to what war is and how it is waged. 3. Take
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Conservatives Learning Lessons of History
11. Government handing over the most vulnerable to religious groups has worked out well in Canadian history: look at the residential schools — Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) November 10, 2014 1. Canada is now a country that will offer sex workers the "option" of being sent to religious reeducation camps: https://t.co/sxaDIW1bC5
Continue readingThe Misanthropic Bird: Apprentice. Intern. Slave.
The employment climate for many students and graduates has been a difficult terrain to not only navigate but also survive. And slavery masked under labels of ‘apprentice’ or ‘intern’ only make it worse. Infographic: The 99% vs. The 1%, http://www.policyalternatives.ca Bogged down with insurmountable student debts, and often forced to
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: New student coalition vows to block tar sands pipelines at Quebec border
A new student coalition promises to block Transcanada’s Energy East and Enbridge’s line 9B tar sands pipeline projects “at Quebec border.” The post New student coalition vows to block tar sands pipelines at Quebec border appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Duncan Cameron discusses how Canada can respond to being stalled economically: In 2011 median earnings in Canada were $30,000. That means one-half of Canadian workers earned less than $30,000. What is more to the point is that earnings in 2011 were $1,800 below
Continue readingPolitical Eh-conomy: Means-test the rich, or another argument for eliminating tuition
Here’s an oversimplified choice for how to fund post-secondary education. Imagine you have two options for dealing with how people pay for post-secondary education: Universal free tuition, means-testing to see if you are rich enough to pay Universal tuition fees, means-testing to see if you are poor enough to not
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Insensitivity To Sample Size – Stats on a Saturday?
Statistics is an area that I’m interested in. I’m not keenly interested enough to take a stats course, but I do like learning about some of the basic concepts. Thanks Youtube.. :> Filed under: Education Tagged: Sample Size, Statistics
Continue readingThings Are Good: Germany Now Has Free Tuition
Germany has done something that the rest the developed world should copy: reducing post-secondary tuition fees to zero. Open and accessible education is key to making a richer and more prosperous country – Germany clearly gets this. In these modern times education is more important than ever so it’s really
Continue readingThings Are Good: Feel Better By Visiting Your Local Library
It turns out that by simply using your local library you can improve your life – no matter what you read. As long as you make use of what the library provides you can find your well-being increased. What are you waiting for? How do you quantify a public good?
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Jim Prentice’s First Week in Office–Straight out of the Corporate Playbook
“As of this moment, Alberta is under new management.” — Jim Prentice, 16th Premier of Alberta* Transition. There’s nothing more unsettling; no, strike that, nerve-wracking, for an organization than a change-out of senior leadership, particularly when the old leader is universally regarded as an abject failure (will I be condemned
Continue readingNorthern Insight / Perceptivity: #bced in my twitterverse
On @globalnews Sandy @Garossino suggested readings of J.Griffin's judgement with findings of bad faith. Start here: http://t.co/Xmw8LmiNYZ — Norm Farrell (@Norm_Farrell) September 10, 2014 "Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife." http://t.co/llXHp41ZOn #bced #bcpoli — Norm Farrell (@Norm_Farrell) September 10, 2014 Can`t afford public
Continue readingNorthern Insight / Perceptivity: The real news gets ignored – REPLAY
I wrote the following article 3½ years ago. It demonstrates how little has changed. On the day George Abbott became the first Education Minister to speak at a convention of the teachers’ union since Gordon Campbell’s election in 2001, BC Liberal media focused less on the warm response from educators
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Planting the Toxic Seed
Religion doesn’t just happen in the 21st century in the West. Religion must be instilled into children, magic and fable must be taught to be revered and most darkly, the fear of eternal punishment must be enshrined in young minds. Hell for children is a very real fear –
Continue readingNorthern Insight / Perceptivity: Government serves insiders and elites
It is clear that BC Liberal strategy is to reward insiders and elites. That’s been shown in countless ways, particularly since Christy Clark took office as Premier in 2011. Shortly after her return to Victoria, a handful of senior civil servants departed with millions in severance rewards, paid even if
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – The Broadbent Institute studies wealth inequality in Canada, and finds not only that the vast majority of Canada’s capital resources remain concentrated in very few hands but that the disparity continues to grow: The new Statistics Canada data show a deeply unequal
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