- by David McLaren
The strike by the faculty of Ontario community colleges continues. It's not about the money – the colleges and the teachers are practically agreed on that. And it's not about benefits or shorter work hours.
It's about precarious work.
Although student enrolment has gone up, the numbers of full time teachers have gone down. Instead, the colleges are relying on 'partial load' professors (those with contracts for 6-12 hours a week of instruction) and part time teachers (those with less than 6....
January 16, 2007 8:48:24 AM
From: John Fearnall
Subject: A suggestion
As our board is currently facing two significant problems, a budget deficit due to sickness and an excess amount of space due to a precipitous decline in enrollment, I would like to make the following proposal. Rather than building a new "learning
centre" I think we should do away with the idea of a centrally located education centre and instead redistribute our board
- by Laura Buckler
Oh hell no!
Not now you don't.
You don't get to sit there, clutching your pearls, being all shocked and horrified at the number of 'me too' statuses on Facebook.
When you were wagging your finger at your daughter's short skirt, concerned that she was 'just asking for it', asking to be...
- by Stewart Wells
In 2014, a longtime advocate for grain trade deregulation and a former researcher for the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association was quoted in the ag press as saying "I don't remember one serious conversation about market power and the dangers it imposed." Apparently that conversation still hasn't happened for the farmers that are lobbying to open Canadian borders to an influx of US-grown wheat.
The American National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG) and US Wheat Associates are lobbying...
- by Martin Donald
I wanted to comment about an opinion piece that Jim Cummings had posted at the owensoundhub.org about the irony of having an Orange Lodge at the Pratie Oaten, Irish Festival at Grey Roots.
It is very coincidental that Grey Roots built the Orange Lodge in 2017, when we around the world are trying to deal with monuments, whether they be statues, plaques or schools named after individuals, that are inherently negative. We saw indigenous protests in Halifax centered around a statue of Edward Cornwallis, Protests, riots and murders in Charlottesville, North Carolina all centered around a confederate monument and we saw Grey Roots complete a building, a monument to Protestant Ethno-Nationalism.
That statement might seem extreme unless you know...
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