Reading Time: 3 minutes Fundamental to human rights in Canada is access to a public education system that offers choice and quality to the taxpayers who pay for it
Category: Education
Building a clean, green and smart Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s polytechnic institutions are developing the talent to drive the nation’s dramatic next-generation infrastructure expansion program
Treating everyone the same is bad for learning
Reading Time: 3 minutes The solution is not to opt for the lowest common denominator but instead to expand the levels of genuine school choice for students and parents
Laws can reduce bullying and Bill C-16 is needed now
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada needs laws to protect vulnerable transgender youth, who experience bullying at much higher rates than their peers
Federal support won’t help independent schools or education
Reading Time: 3 minutes Greater federal involvement could fundamentally reshape our decentralized approach to education policy, lead to policy homogeneity and hurt student performance
Teacher’s ‘me too’ clause puts Alberta in a fiscal squeeze
Reading Time: 3 minutes The stakes in collective bargaining sessions remain high. Alberta faces a $10.3-billion budget deficit with more big deficits planned
Are Canada’s public schools truly for everyone?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Saskatchewan ruling gives provinces the impetus to explore the alternatives to forcing children, against their parents’ will, into secular public education
Misconceptions threaten funding for B.C. independent schools
Reading Time: 3 minutes Removing partial public funding for independent schools based on a series of misconceptions does nothing to improve education
Western culture’s paralyzing crisis of confidence
Reading Time: 3 minutes University students are increasingly intolerant and, indoctrinated with a poisonous cocktail of negativity, taught that western civilization is immoral
How to reflect positive messages to young people
Reading Time: 3 minutes If we want to have young people who aren’t stifled by fear of the judgments of others, we need to help to develop their character