Posts By: Derek Broughton

Derek Broughton

Response to The Good Life, v13 i13

We love to hear from you! Send your questions and comments to voice@ausu.org, and please indicate if we may publish your letter. RE: The Good Life, v13 i13 While Ms. Behrens makes some good points, I’d have to argue with her choice of Nick Tosches as an authority on the art of wine tasting. She… Read more »

Response to Editorial, September 15, 2004

We love to hear from you! Send your questions and comments to voice@ausu.org, and please indicate if we may publish your letter in the Voice. RE: Editoral, September 15, 2004 – v12 i36 As a staffer on the “Virtual Helpdesk”, I thank you for some of your points about email, but I have to disagree… Read more »

Response to Debbie Jabbour’s “Counsellor Liability”

We love to hear from you! Send your questions and comments to voice@ausu.org, and please indicate if we may publish your letter in the Voice. Response to Debbie Jabbour’s Counsellor Liability March 24, 2004 http://www.ausu.org/voice/articles/articledisplay.php?ART=2696 Debbie Jabbour argues that a court ruling on counsellor liability has school counsellors worried, “with good reason”. I don’t disagree… Read more »

FROM MY SOAPBOX – The High Cost of Defense

Am I the only person who is getting tired of hearing how Canada has relinquished our defense of our own borders and should be thankful that the Americans are willing to do it for us? The most recent statement I have heard to this effect was from Tom D’Aquino, president of the Canadian Council of… Read more »

From High Tech to Third World

My colleague said the other day, as I recounted my recent problems with my alternative energy system, “Sometimes I can’t tell whether you’re High Tech or Third World”. At which point I realized that sometimes it takes just a few minutes to go from one to the other. I’ve learned some important lessons recently about… Read more »

:From my soapbox:

The Kyoto Accord is “dead as a Dodo”, largely because certain powerful western governments that can well afford to implement the protocol are taking a shortsighted approach and caving in to pressure from corporations that are even more shortsighted. What some politicians are feeding us is a totally different kind of do-do, and pretty soon… Read more »