Foundation Skills Assessment: Another Dirty Trick
By Rachel Goodine The FSAs, or Foundation Skills Assessment tests, administered annually in British Columbia since 2000 to students in grades 4 and 7, are once again under way. They…
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Throw National Post a Lifeline
I haven’t encountered a Kelly McParland article that I can say I agree with. His latest, about Elizabeth May’s attempt to subvert the stalemate in Parliament amongst the opposition parties,…
How Millennials Can Improve Everyone’s Job Satisfaction
Quack. It’s 9am, do you know where your millennial employees are? No? No worries. It’s all good. They’re not factory chickens. People who study characteristics of different generations have some…
Adbusters’ project to “take down Harper”: #SwaggerNoMore
by Adbusters | Jan 17, 2013 “The time has come for all of us to get involved.” He ditched the Kyoto Protocol, voted against Palestine, violated human rights, passed unconstitutional…
Who’s Running BC?
It has been a month of amateurish politics starting with the government posting the auditor-general’s job. Then this week the government backed down several steps to keep from ejecting the…
What If We Treated Harper Like We Treated Haiti’s Aristide?
Supporters of former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide chant and display signs outside the courthouse in Port au Prince on Wednesday, Jan. 9. When they learned that the prosecutor, Lucmane Delille,…
ConCalls: Another Poutine Style Recording in #RoboCon
Elections Canada may be allowing the Conservative Party to set the glacial pace of the criminal investigation across Canada into illegal election robocalls that misdirected and harassed electors. May be?…
Sex and the Senate
Winston Churchill is credited with an exchange that when adapted illustrates, not only the similarities between prostitution and politics, but current inconsistencies in the popular view of our Canadian government.…
Canada: It’s Worse Than I Thought
Recently I was writing an article about Stephen Harper and how his previous actions imply his future behavior towards First Nations. However, accumulating background information for this suggests that things…
Canada: It’s Worse Than I Thought
Recently I was writing an article about Stephen Harper and how his previous actions imply his future behavior towards First Nations. However, accumulating background information for this suggests that things…
Canada: It’s Worse Than I Thought
Recently I was writing an article about Stephen Harper and how his previous actions imply his future behavior towards First Nations. However, accumulating background information for this suggests that things…
Canada: It’s Worse Than I Thought
Recently I was writing an article about Stephen Harper and how his previous actions imply his future behavior towards First Nations. However, accumulating background information for this suggests that things…
Idle No More – Priscilla Settee and Sheelah McLean
This video of Priscilla Settee and Sheelah McLean talking about Idle No More is accompanied by a Making the Links - Community Radio indepth interview with them broadcasting tomorrow night…
Idle No More – Priscilla Settee and Sheelah McLean
This video of Priscilla Settee and Sheelah McLean talking about Idle No More is accompanied by a Making the Links – Community Radio indepth interview with them broadcasting tomorrow night…
ConCalls: Are Canadian Elections Unfair Now? #RoboCon
Two people today questioned my point that Canadian elections are growing unfair, and so produce questionable results. This lack of a clear, and legitimate winner of elections erodes peace and…
America the Not-So-Beautiful: God Shat His Grace On Thee
Close your eyes, and conjure up a mental image of the stereotype of the Ugly American. Loud. Large. Willfully ignorant of customs and countries that lie beyond the border of…
What Does Adbusters Ask of You in 2013?
From the people who suggested the modest idea of occupying Wall Street, Adbusters has sent out a new half dozen suggestions to fix the economic cancers of capitalism. Here’s my…
Harper May Have his Coalition but he doesn’t have Canada
Stephen Harper keeps support of ‘coalition’ of voters: poll“Among the findings in the Dec. 7-12 Ipsos Reid poll: * 44 per cent of Canadians think Harper’s majority government is “working…