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Adapted almost completely from my piece in the Faculty of Law student paper, the Ultra Vires. I know, it’s a bit late considering the last two weeks of primaries, but I stand by my analysis. Plus some of the links are worth reading. It’s down to Hillary and Obama and a plurality of students at [...More] ‘ Yes He Can ‘ Who are these people? It is eminently logical that the reading comprehension tests scores of children and adults alike increase according to the time they spend reading for pleasure. More, it is not surprising that children with more than 100 books in their home score markedly better on standardized tests, including math tests,, than children [...More] ‘ The Cat in the Hat and tests in the bag ‘
If democracy works at all, and MMP fails, we can just kick the bums out, and go back to our charming, ineffective, tradition.
The core argument underlying my support for the proportional representation proposal being put to the vote on October 10th – which will, with luck, ‘drag Ontario [...More] ‘ proportional rep and a good first step ‘ For a decision to bring the re-opening of community centres to a vote in the next two weeks, Toronto’s Mayor Miller has been accused of bowing to pressure and flip-flopping on the issue. It doesn’t really matter how the Star swings this thing. The past three weeks has been an act of brazen, awesome political [...More] ‘ the mayors loss and the city’s gain ‘ Michael Ignatieff has written a long-awaited mea culpa for his support of the US invasion of Iraq in the New York Time Magazine here. Mea culpa is an admission of fault, and there is much to be faulted for. The invasion of Iraq stands for two great tragedies. The first is gaunt in its scale, [...More] ‘ Leadership and Forgiveness ‘ |
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