The BC Government’s Idiotic Advice to Struggling Students
I stumbled upon the Achieve BC website a couple years ago and emailed this webpage to all who enjoy mocking Campbell’s neoLiberal community-destroying regime. I’m shocked to see that no one has spruced up the idiocy on this webpage. In their “Success Tips for Teens” section under the topic of “Learn to Deal with Reality,” [...]
In the "Corporate Stooges Don’t Get Irony" Department…
We have The Yes Men at it again making bankers look like the idiots only they can achieve. In releasing the Acceptable Risk Calculator, The Yes Men, via their DowEthics.com website, posed as Dow executives arguing that their experience making billions in profits while dancing on the knife edge of human misery gives them ideal [...]
Free K-12 Education in BC: Constitutionally Guaranteed
Too often, minute key factoids evade my memory: likely an aging and expiring neuron issue. One recent brain fart showed up last week when I got on a tangent in some [or maybe all] of my classes [I currently teach high school...for another 2 months anyway before less toxic pastures greet me] when I got [...]
Walmart’s Anti-Union Mania
Recently Walmart closed a store in Quebec that was moving towards unionization. The UFCW built a webpage to encouraging us to direct outrage at Walmart, who soon started bouncing complaint emails sent to it [no surprise there]. The contents of that page were picked up and included in the March 2005 Columbia Journal [see the [...]
Who Listens to CKNW…
I think we now know which political stripe is represented by their listeners who use the internet and self-select to partake in the poll, despite BC Federation of Labour emails encouraging “others” to participate in the polls. Other recent polls are below this one. http://www.cknw.com/station/corus_qod_poll.cfm?PollID=9013 [as of noon on May 9]Who do you think won [...]
The BEST BC Election Ad Yet
This one comes from the BC Federation of Labour’s Count Me In campaign. It’s warm, compassionate, intense, moving and poignant. It should not be missed. http://www.count-me-in.net/AudioandVideo/bc4sale-parody3-v2.avi FinisQuestions, comments, feedback, gripes, thunderous applause? Email me…use the address at the bottom of the page. Please email me at the email address below if you would like to [...]
A Scourge a Day Keeps Electoral Defeat Away
The CanWest Ministry of Information in BC has created another issue for the reigning neoLiberal Campbell junta. In a province where St. Paul’s and Women’s hospitals tell maternity patients to bring their own pillows, linen, blankets and pads to the hospital to give birth, the premier along with the Province rag create their very own [...]
Education Commercialization [K-12 and Post-Secondary]…the Frog in the Pot
I just got the email containing this fantastic article on corporate creep in education. Its beginning is quoted below. Then when I flipped through this month’s BC Teachers’ Federation Teacher Newsmagazine and read what’s becoming a regular update on commercial creep in K-12 schools, I saw too much light for my strained eyes to bear. [...]
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