Vancouver Sun Letter
If anyone would like my two cents on the controversy surrounding Trinity Western University, its proposed law school, and its homophobic “Community Covenant,” please see the letters section of today’s…
Education
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Following up on this morning’s post, George Monbiot discusses the need for a progressive movement which goes beyond pointing out dangers to…
Conflict of interest. Wazzat?
When football coach Jerry Sandusky recruited, groomed and molested boys, he continued for years because people around him stayed quiet. In 2009, Sara Ganim, then a 22-year-old writer for a…
Public funding for Catholic schools has no place in 21st-century Ontario.
Brilliant article in the Glob and Mash today. Key paragraphs for me – and a message that should be read to all Ontario residents. The arguments from proponents of publicly-funded…
Numbed by numbers
I’ll be talking with Ian Jessop, Monday June 9, on CFAX1070. While the BC Government lays seige to public education, it seems a good time to see if all the…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Robert Reich proposes that the best way to address corporate criminality is to make sure that those responsible go to jail –…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Neil Irwin highlights the reality that top-heavy economic growth has done nothing to reduce poverty in the U.S. over the past 40 years:…
Austerity is limited
School districts are forced to economize and they’ve done it in many ways. However, despite squeezing operating budgets so hard that supplies of classroom paper run out, certain costs are…
Thoughts on Education From the Inside
By Brad Farrell High school teacher and concerned parent “What do you do for a living?” A question. A common question. One people ask to start a conversation. One that…
Labrador’s School System Causes Distraction
Send the teachers and administrators home for causing a distraction. Mistaking 2014 for 1914, they sent young women (and even a couple men) home for wearing clothing that showed some…
Why only politics when we think of democracy?
Conversations about democracy tend to revolve overwhelmingly about politics and government. These topics are rightly at the centre of democratic dialogue as they are the overarching institutions of our society.…
The Ontario Election, Austerity and The Social Commons
In his Second Treatise of Government, John Locke argued that land, when Common, was fallow and unproductive. Mixing one’s labour with the land, such as growing grain or picking an…
The Ontario Election, Austerity and The Social Commons
In his Second Treatise of Government, John Locke argued that land, when Common, was fallow and unproductive. Mixing one’s labour with the land, such as growing grain or picking an…
My policy on improving civic education makes the Ontario Liberal Party platform!
Readers of this space will remember my policy on youth voter registration that was passed as a priority policy at the Ontario Young Liberals Summer Fling last year. The policy…
My policy on improving civic education makes the Ontario Liberal Party platform!
Readers of this space will remember my policy on youth voter registration that was passed as a priority policy at the Ontario Young Liberals Summer Fling last year. The policy…
My policy on improving civic education makes the Ontario Liberal Party platform!
Readers of this space will remember my policy on youth voter registration that was passed as a priority policy at the Ontario Young Liberals Summer Fling last year. The policy…
My policy on improving civic education makes the Ontario Liberal Party platform!
Readers of this space will remember my policy on youth voter registration that was passed as a priority policy at the Ontario Young Liberals Summer Fling last year. The policy…
This is why teachers are walking out next week.
Written by Robyn Ladner Robyn Ladner-Teacher BC has the worst student-educator ratio in Canada. BC has the 2nd worst per student education funding in Canada. BC’s Education funding is $1000…
Spoof, Or Not A Spoof?
Were it not for the telltale insignia on the bottom-right of the screen, it might be hard to tell. High School Student, Teacher Applying For Same Summer Waitressing Job Recommend…
Alex Usher Needs to Consider Taxation
My debate with Alex Usher on tuition fees continues, over at the Academic Matters web site. In my latest post, I make the case that Mr. Usher needs to consider…