Reading Time: 4 minutes As our minibus pulled to a stop, I felt suddenly that my grandmother’s love of the Highland landscape was surrounding us all
Category: Education
Raphael Lemkin: the man who coined the word genocide
Reading Time: 3 minutes Lemkin lobbied tirelessly for the United Nations to adopt a definition of the word genocide
What Betsy DeVos could learn about school choice from Ontario
Reading Time: 3 minutes Unfortunately, the U.S. Education Secretary would have to visit the past to find truly innovative approaches to school choice
The hardships of Orkney link to Canada’s early days
Reading Time: 4 minutes Displaced from their homes, many citizens of the Orkney islands ended up in Canada working for the Hudson Bay Company
The peculiar cult of Che Guevara
Reading Time: 3 minutes Guevara’s primary political instinct was totalitarian, with a propensity to violence
Kudos to Toronto, but independent schools still face discrimination
Reading Time: 4 minutes Subjecting parents choosing such schools for their children to extra costs is discriminatory
The no-zero policy finally gets a failing grade
Reading Time: 3 minutes But dumping the misguided practice in Newfoundland and Labrador schools is just the beginning – much more reform is needed
Denying DeVos a welcome simply punishes American children
Reading Time: 3 minutes Petty Ontario politicians were outraged that U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos planned a visit to Ontario to meet with educators
Manitoba’s flagship university is failing students
Reading Time: 4 minutes What can be done about it?
Canadians need a civics education refresher
Reading Time: 3 minutes Americans are woefully ignorant of basic government functions; Canadians aren’t far behind