Nobel winning American economist Paul Krugman, Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton, writes frequently for the New York Times. This week, he offers Ignorance Is Strength, a timely piece that may […]
The British Columbia Liberals promised a number of things when they aimed to form government in 2001. This is from page three of their 36-page campaign document A New Era for British […]
Currently, the internet is alive with discussion of public education in British Columbia and I’ve gathered a few elements from different sites to create a composite of opinions that reflect my view […]
Unprecedented readership of this article first posted March 4 causes me to bring it back to the top. I encourage people among the thousands of new readers to return and look through […]
A young woman, for whom I have unlimited regard, sent this message to me. She is a very experienced school teacher with a Masters degree in education. She knows more about teaching […]
Almost six years ago, Vince Ready, in an interim report to the BC Liberal government about relations with teachers, commented: …the parties have not concluded meaningful negotiations in the decade since the […]
Carbon deal represents a massive transfer of public money from British Columbian schools, hospitals and taxpayers to an already profitable private gas company. …it is ludicrous to force the public sector, which is responsible for less than one per cent of greenhouse gases emitted in the province, to subsidize big polluters who pay no penalty for the majority of their greenhouse gas emissions.
SFU Prof Donald Gutstein is expert on the Fraser Institute. It recently published the annual schools report card and Gutstein carves it into little pieces. Read here. The schools report is an […]
“Conventional wisdom has it that education-obsessed Chinese parents send their children to years of arduous after-school tutoring to give them a leg up on the country’s brutal college admissions tests. There may […]
June 23, Global TV News Hour Final led with the Education Minister’s attack on the Vancouver School Board. It gave an in-depth, comprehensive, detailed analytical report on proposed service cuts (many seconds […]
I have no doubt that provincial politicians are trying to pick a fight with the Vancouver School Board to distract people from issues that sent the Liberal approval rating crashing down. Minister […]
Item: Vancouver school year shortened 10 days to deal with a budget shortfall. Item: Between the 2001–02 and 2008–09 school years, 176 public schools in BC have been closed, unprecedented in BC […]
If you enjoy science, and particularly the history of science, visit From Curiosity to Knowledge for details. Frontispiece to Sprat ‘s History of the Royal Society (1667). Engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar, design […]
A forum to help all BC parents and public education advocates stand up together and send a strong message to our MLAs and provincial government that our public school students cannot afford […]
Job Displacement? Can’t be stopped. It's just inevitable. Translated as: Let’s see how bad it can get first then talk…
To halt the spread of homelessness as a top housing priority few things matter more than affordability. What does matter…
On the subject of Wealth Extraction... Has BC Hydro Chair Mr. Clark studied info comparable to this video? Should Hydro…
Renewed interest in “interest”? https://ellenbrown.com/2025/11/04/how-a-fed-overhaul-could-eliminate-the-federal-debt-crisis-part-ii-curbing-fed-independence/ Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is “the most powerful force…
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This Just In https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/general/microsoft-to-use-2-8-million-gallons-of-lake-michigan-water-in-2026-for-mt-pleasant-project/ar-AA1ML7Mw Too bad about Lake Michigan. Where did you say hundred of thousands of gallons of data…