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Cheap Politics Misses the Mark
 Posted 2/5/2010 2:25:00 PM
We got a couple of examples this week of politicians who aim for the bulls eye but who missed the target altogether. First up, Provincial Tory leader Hugh McFadyen, who held a news conference to tell Manitobans that his party is ready to reject the so-called vote tax. This is a small sum which goes to each party for every vote cast for the party during an election. Savings? About a quarter of a million bucks. Provincial deficit? Closer to six hundred million. McFadyen called a news conference to publicly pick fly dung out of pepper. What Manitobans really need to hear from the opposition is a solution to the deficit. What they got was a few crumbs.
Example number two is federal Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff. Following on the Prime Minister's new platform to get the G-8 countries to focus on the health and welfare of women and children ...
Don't Blame Twitter
Posted 2/1/2010 2:49:00 PM
We're hearing more reports that students enrolled in university lack sufficient language skills to pass their courses. This is not a new complaint from Canada's post secondary institutions. The exasperation on the past of our profs is palpable. They are dealing with increasing numbers of young people ("adults" doesn't really seem applicable when they can't form a sentence) who can't read, write or spell well enough to tackle their university courses.
Twitter is the latest in a series of demons being blamed by some but that would be too simplistic. Twitter may be more of symptom than a cause. The root causes of the low level of literacy among university students are more likely to be found in our high schools, our public schools and our homes. Parents must read to their children and they must ready quality books. As Mark Twain pointed out the man who reads poor books ...
Of Brains, Backbone and Boobs
Posted 1/28/2010 8:41:00 PM
Michael Ignatieff is a bright fellow. Everybody says so. He's so smart we ought to pay attention to everything he says and believe it. Well, at least he's smart enough to know when Canadians don't want an election. Despite his constant bleating about how the Prime Minister is abusing the democratic process by shutting down Parliament and his party's theatrics on the Hill, Ignatieff says he has no plans to bring down the government. He knows the pubic would punish his party for doing so. It's part smart politics and part lack of confidence. Before he became leader Ignatieff and the Liberals routinely skipped out of Commons votes so as not to bring down the Harper government,. They talked tough but didn't have the spine to walk the walk. Not much has changed.
Speaking of smarts...or lack thereof, A 14-year-old boy in Washington state has been arrested after police say ...
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