BACKGROUNDER In its 25th year, Labatt and Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC) have teamed up to sponsor the LPIA program which helps university/college students create their own summer jobs in their chosen field of study. As you know, it’s hard for most students to get “hands-on” work experience in their future career tracks. Each year… Read more »
Mary Walsh is the host of a new CBC television show, By The Book. It is a half-hour talkshow that offers viewers discussion “about books I like, with people I like,” says Walsh. Walsh is one of the two executive producers on the show. Michael Donovan, Salter Street’s daddy, is the other and the show… Read more »
OTTAWA (CUP) — After months of delay, the federal government released two policy papers on skills and innovation last week. Despite the pre-release hype, student and faculty groups are unsure of the effect, if any, the papers will have on post-secondary education. Jim Turk, executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, said the… Read more »
TORONTO (CUP) — With the University of Toronto law school passing a contentious five-year plan that will nearly double tuition fees to $22,000 per year, York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School may soon follow suit. Cheryl Sullivan, director of communications at U of T’s faculty of law, says the plan is not about tuition fees… Read more »
When most of us hear the word endangered, the free-flowing waters of North America’s rivers do not come to mind. Instead, we tend to think of a species of plant or animal in danger of extinction. But increasingly, conservation biology is centering on the health and integrity of whole ecosystems rather than focussing on only… Read more »
This is the first of three columns about Sacred Heart Community School in Regina, Saskatchewan. The school has 450 students, in Grades Pre-Kindergarten to Grade 8. In Part One, the staff and students work together to make positive changes in their school. Definitely Worth a Second Look! My son Adam is a happy Grade Three… Read more »
West Jet Airlines officials are still unsure if the federal government will provide air marshals to police their flights, despite the fact that they have been informed of a travelers security surcharge of $12 that comes into effect April 1st. Transport Canada has already assigned air marshals to Air Canada flights while other airlines have… Read more »
Costs of Kyoto The Alberta Government has released a study (http://www.gov.ab.ca/acn/200202/11952.html) showing that the cost of Kyoto could be as high as $40 billion dollars, with the Alberta economy suffering as much as 5.5 billion dollars per year. Reading through the press release though, it quickly becomes apparent that this damage also includes estimates of… Read more »
One of the most significant religious trends of the past century has been the return to Goddess based Earth-centred religions. Many are based on ancient European societies that we are only beginning to understand, while others draw from Native American and South American Indian shamanism. New initiates, however, often do not have indigenous American roots,… Read more »
Physical pain is part of the human experience, yet it is a highly subjective one. Each person responds differently to a pain stimulus, and one cannot judge the degree of physical pain another is feeling – although it may appear obvious when another person is in pain, understanding the severity of such pain is subject… Read more »