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Editorial / Op-Ed
The recent announcement of cash rewards for public servants
who suggest improvements in the federal government is naive at best
and disingenuous at worst, given the prevailing management culture
within Canada's public service.
Editorial / Op-Ed
School's out for summer. Ya, right! Perhaps Education
Minister Michelle Courchesne isn't an Alice Cooper fan. While our
children happily forego tests and textbooks for bathing suits and
summer camp, the minister has evidently picked the first weeks of
summer as the best time to table a series of controversial and
far-reaching amendments to the Basic School Regulation. That
document dictates how Quebec's elementary and high school students
are evaluated. The changes would revamp report cards, could put at
risk the very basis of Quebec's curriculum reform, and will impinge
on the expertise and autonomy of democratically elected school
boards.
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Uninformed criticism of Loyola is hardly useful
A little over a week ago, Guy Rodgers wrote a letter titled "Loyola needs to be transparent." I was impressed. It was the first time I had seen a letter expressing real interest in Loyola's program in ethics and religion. Rodgers had his doubts about our approach, but reserved judgment since he did not actually know anything about the program.
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Canadians must be able to count on Statistics Canada
The government's recent decision to do away with the census's mandatory long questionnaire might appear to many people as a minor technical matter. However, it is a major decision that will substantially reduce the validity of the information that we have about Canada, its citizens, and the way society is changing. This move, which will increase our ignorance about ourselves, will have long-term political consequences: As society becomes less informed, it will be easier for the government to manipulate it and to use its authority to circulate specious arguments and ideological positions.
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Canadians love their myths
Do Canadians know the difference between myths and reality when it comes to their country's accomplishments?
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Courses on tolerance are sorely needed in our schools
The Quebec Superior Court ruling exempting Loyola High School from teaching the Ethics and Religious Culture course is not a victory. How could it be? Any course that helps dissolve the ripening intolerance of youth today deserves to find firm footing in all Quebec classrooms.
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Fashion police back on job in Iran
Like their counterparts in the West, girls in Iran often check the mirror before they head out the door. But instead of inspecting their hair or makeup, women here are looking to make sure there is no offending strand of hair showing, no hint of cosmetics.
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HENRY AUBIN
You can't blame the Plateau for trying to cut traffic
One borough's self-defence against traffic congestion is setting off an angry backlash. The controversy shows how tough it is to resist the hegemony of the car.
MITCH JOEL
Television at the crossroads: core business model might be a thing of the past
While everybody is busy running over to their favourite consumer electronics store to pick up a 3-D television (btw, is it just me or do those glasses make all of us look like the love child of Karl Lagerfeld and Roy Orbison?), it seems like the television industry -much like all of the traditional media channels -also struggles to define its place with viewers while grappling with a future of digitization, media fragmentation and uncertainty.
JAY BRYAN
Skills squeeze is around the corner
While unemployment is dropping, it's still a big preoccupation, a fact underlined yesterday by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which warned that governments mustn't take their focus off joblessness just because there's a recovery.
BILL BROWNSTEIN
Nasty Show host Greg Giraldo sets high smut standard for the others
Definitely not the pussycat. There had been some trepidation about which comic persona newly minted Nasty Show host Greg Giraldo would bring to Club Soda.
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