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3 months ago

What? I’m agreeing with the CTF? Must be Christmas… - Prince Albert Daily Herald During my twenty-some years living in Saskatoon, I often found myself “cursing” Op-Ed pieces mostly written by male dominated non-profit organizations such as the Fraser Institute or the Canadian Taxpayers Federation preaching some capitalistic principle bypassing Jesus’s moral teachings. Most of their disciples not only contend that they’re “self-made” men who refuse to recognize the

What? I’m agreeing with the CTF? Must be Christmas…


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5 months ago

Dealing with irritating behaviour is truly irritating - Prince Albert Daily Herald When dealing with matters currently being discussed in political debate, I’m usually the one sticking his hand in the air and expressing an opinion within mere seconds of the topic having even arisen for discussion. Needless to say, it irritates the living Hell of most of my friends, usually because they’re afraid they may be

Dealing with irritating behaviour is truly irritating


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6 months ago

Where Piaget’s theories can create potential learning issues - Prince Albert Daily Herald It should be understood that I have emphasized the importance of Piaget’s cognitive developmental stages in a child’s intellectual progression for one simple reason: its four-stage progress and its ability to be measured by a child’s years. As to the effort of someone attempting to measure to what level of academic achievement that student has

Where Piaget’s theories can create potential learning issues


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6 months ago

Political roadblocks preventing society from thinking critically - Prince Albert Daily Herald Growing up, I used to think everyone was a “critical thinker”, capable of relying upon our learning instincts in order to question, challenge or even properly evaluate worldly assumptions or biases, then dispensing logical and well-reasoned conclusions following such analysis. Today, however, we have a convoy of extremist and “evangelical” lobotomists attempting to eradicate any

Political roadblocks preventing society from thinking critically


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7 months ago

Our schools are in trouble: Why in Hell don’t we care anymore? Were I to believe in something like predestination, I’d say that my decision to become a teacher was made long before my mother gave birth. She, however, want

Our schools are in trouble: Why in Hell don’t we care anymore?


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8 months ago

Provincial exam program to end: Pedagogically sound or cynical educational defunding? Having not written a column in the past three weeks, I can assure readers and my good friends in the Sask Party that it was not a result of Herald Editor Jason

Provincial exam program to end: Pedagogically sound or cynical educational defunding?


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9 months ago

Separating the ‘dumb’ from Canada West separation Having been a teacher for close to 40 years, I take great pride in knowing that during that entire period, NOT ONCE did I ever call a student “dumb”. Howeve

**OPINION** Separating the ‘dumb’ from Canada West separation

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10 months ago

A message for the Premier: either you’re ‘in’, or call an election Maybe I’m just an old, semi-retired teacher writing Op-Ed columns in a community newspaper that encourages freedom of speech by publishing my “leftist” analyses of political events; what really bugs me, however, is that other than those writing questionable hypotheses for well-funded right wing organizations such as the Fraser Institute or the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, there doesn’t appear to be anyone in the Prince Albert region willing to challenge my perceptions, at least not with

A message for the Premier: either you’re ‘in’, or call an election


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10 months ago

Why keep telling a joke that’s no longer funny? Honest to God, if this “news” item that appeared in the Washington Post had been written by someone who seldom gets a story printed on Page 1, I’d have th

Why keep telling a joke that’s no longer funny?


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10 months ago

Danielle Smith’s Kristi Noem-like shenanigans are becoming boring Having just gone through one of the most ridiculous yet too important not to have voted election cycles in Canadian history, we should finally sitting back in our reclining chairs waiting for Mark Carney to go to work and deal with the real problem facing our democratic system today – U.S. President Donald Trump declaring economic war upon Canada and threatening through economic means to turn us into “the 51st state”.

Danielle Smith’s Kristi Noem-like shenanigans are becoming boring


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10 months ago

Danielle Smith’s Kristi Noem-like shenanigans are becoming boring Having just gone through one ...

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11 months ago

Canadian voters “get it right” in the end of our national election To say that I was happy with the results of Monday’s federal election is only partially true, as I was one of only a few predicting such a result.The NDP

Canadian voters “get it right” in the end of our national election


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11 months ago

Lessons from a spring election campaign Like most political junkies this past week, I watched BOTH leadership debates and even taped the English language edition. So why is it that with only days to g

Lessons from a spring election campaign


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11 months ago

What we have finally learned after listening to two leadership debates To be perfectly honest, I’m still confused, not because the two leadership debates didn’t get me to thinking about politics and the “why” of why I think

What we have finally learned after listening to two leadership debates


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11 months ago

Will our next PM also be the ideal candidate to lead Team Canada? This past Wednesday my wife and I drove down to Saskatoon for the evening just to take in the sights – of a national politician who was actually coming to Sas

Will our next PM also be the ideal candidate to lead Team Canada?


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11 months ago

Federal election is about who can rise above the ridicule and contempt coming from our former neighbourhood best friend In addressing the rally that Edmonton Police estimated had 9,000 people in attendance, former Prime Minister Stephen Harper got right to the point as to why he was there.

Federal election is about who can rise above the ridicule and contempt coming from our former neighbourhood best friend


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1 year ago

CPC’s failure to understand history means they’ll lose – badly For over a year now, our national media political commentators have been “predicting” that Pierre Poilievre would become our next Prime Minister, as his par

CPC’s failure to understand history means they’ll lose – badly


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1 year ago

What has changed? Can anyone tell me what, exactly, has “changed” since Mark Carney took over the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada?

What has changed?


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1 year ago

What has changed? Can anyone tell me what, exactly, has “changed” since Mark Carney took over the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada?

What has changed? Can anyone tell me what, exactly, has “changed” since Mark Carney took over...

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1 year ago

Who or what exactly does Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party represent? The preamble to discussion of Saskatchewan’s recently released budget read that it is “being presented at a time of incredible uncertainty…” Who, exactl

Who or what exactly does Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party represent?


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1 year ago

Moe response to Trump tariff threats continues to baffle Saskatchewanians It didn’t take Donald Trump very long to realize that our federal government wasn’t going to roll over and immediately scream, “Uncle!” mere seconds aft

Moe response to Trump tariff threats continues to baffle Saskatchewanians


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1 year ago

Moe response to Trump tariff threats continues to baffle Saskatchewanians It didn’t take Donald Trump very long to realize that our federal government wasn’t going to roll over and immediately scream, “Uncle!” mere seconds aft

Moe response to Trump tariff threats continues to baffle Saskatchewanians It didn’t take Donald...

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1 year ago

When reasonable voices ask to be heard, why don’t we listen? I have the odd “cracker” friend, most of whom “love” to tell jokes expressing a dislike of anything – and I do mean “anything” even moderately pro

When reasonable voices ask to be heard, why don’t we listen?


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1 year ago

Do you believe Trump’s gone as low as he can get on Ukraine? Don’t bet the farm on it… In 2024 there were things that I listened to or read, took note of so as to properly respond to what I believed the comment meant, then finished off by writing

Do you believe Trump’s gone as low as he can get on Ukraine? Don’t bet the farm on it…


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1 year ago

Why we can no longer trust the U.S.A. to honour its commitments Even though I grew up as an “Air Force brat” I had no idea that Canada’s military regularly developed a counteroffensive and defensive strategy to address

Why we can no longer trust the U.S.A. to honour its commitments


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1 year ago

Wagantall’s pitchfork is still shovelling Poilievre’s fertilizer I want to ask Yorkton-Melville Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall one very simple question concerning her comments in Tuesday’s Herald (“Wagantall says Parlia

Wagantall’s pitchfork is still shovelling Poilievre’s fertilizer


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1 year ago

T-DAY is almost upon us – Can we weather its attack? By the time anyone chooses to read this column, Canadians may well have already begun referring to it as “T-Day”, as it’s most likely to be the day Empero

T-DAY is almost upon us – Can we weather its attack?


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1 year ago

Legal challenge to proroguing parliament a waste of time Please humor me while I ask you to answer the following question: Were you to be placed in a situation wherein you, any member of your family, or a business in

Legal challenge to proroguing parliament a waste of time


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1 year ago

Even the blind can see this event coming What do you call something that someone does on a regular basis, never changes the manner of delivery of this event, and insists upon its virtues in his maintai

Even the blind can see this event coming


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