Canada Originally Intended All Education To Be Free
Out of Canada’s 33 Fathers of Confederation, only one went to university.1 It’s not that Nova Scotia’s Charles Tupper was the only intelligent one among them, other founders were businessmen,…
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Canada Originally Intended All Education To Be Free
Out of Canada’s 33 Fathers of Confederation, only one went to university.1 It’s not that Nova Scotia’s Charles Tupper was the only intelligent one among them, other founders were businessmen,…
Canada Originally Intended All Education To Be Free
Out of Canada's 33 Fathers of Confederation, only one went to university.1It's not that Nova Scotia's Charles Tupper was the only intelligent one among them, other founders were businessmen, doctors,…
Canada Originally Intended All Education To Be Free
Out of Canada's 33 Fathers of Confederation, only one went to university.1It's not that Nova Scotia's Charles Tupper was the only intelligent one among them, other founders were businessmen, doctors,…
Federalism and the Newfoundlanders: 64th birthday edition #nlpoli
April 1, 2013 marks the 64th anniversary of Newfoundland’s confederation with Canada. Here are a few older posts on the subject that stand the test of time: Federalism and the…
Copper-fastened #nlpoli
According to the Telegram editorialist argued last week, this fuss over renovations was nothing at all. At any rate, renovations planned long in advance — to keep the legislature from…
Canada’s Missing Founding Fathers
Children who have an absent father are more likely to have low self esteem, to abuse substances, exhibit anti-social behaviour, and engage in criminal activity. That is the personal impact…
Save yourself a bundle #nlpoli
A couple of decades ago, Greg Malone made a living lampooning an actor who decided to get into politics. Now the actor and comedian has decided to try his hand…
Ask General Kang: How was your technological singularity?
That is a revealing assumption, my good human buddy. What makes you think there was a technological singularity on my home planet of Neecknaw? Well, doesn’t every advanced technological society…
End of an Era: ex-Premier Peter Lougheed Dies
Peter Lougheed (1928-2012) died on September 13th. After decades of service to the public, heart problems and, coupled with pneumonia, he died at the Peter Lougheed hospital. His family has…
Enbridge Shut Out Again
Ottawa, Alberta and the rest of Canada want to ram Enbridge down British Columbia’s throat as operator of the environmental calamity they call the Northern Gateway pipeline but the Americans…
Is Harper Giving British Columbia Real Cause to Secede?
Some weeks ago Conservative senator Mike Duffy dismissed opponents of the Northern Gateway bitumen pipeline as “anti-Canadian.” The more I think about it, he may just have a point. Does…
Our Secret Nation #nlpoli
Comedian Greg Malone is writing a book. The title is Don’t tell the Newfoundlanders: the true story of Newfoundland’s Confederation with Canada. It is non-fiction. Well, supposedly it is non-fiction.…