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1 month ago

Saskatchewan climate action lawsuit ruling shows need for more accountability - Prince Albert Daily Herald When our Sask Party government first passed the Saskatchewan First Act, it seemed to be nothing more than an act of petulance, or just another day in the power struggle between two governments when the lower branch of power can’t properly manage its finances. In enacting the SFA, all the provincial government has done is

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2 months ago

“Hey, baby, have you heard the news?” Probably not… - Prince Albert Daily Herald Lately it’s becoming increasingly harder for me to choose a topic for my columns. This frustration is a result of there being far too many issues of concern “happening” at the moment that depressingly shut off any mechanism that might be prompting us to feel positive or upbeat. One of my “New Year’s resolutions” was

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3 months ago

Lessons unlearned: How Covid-19 has destroyed our concept of democratic freedoms - Prince Albert Daily Herald More than two years after the Covid-19 pandemic destroyed the lives of more than seven million people world-wide, I find it sickening that some are now attempting to misdirect blame for this carnage onto the preventative measures undertaken to arrest its onslaught. Even more depressing is that the three-headed hydra of disinformation, fake religion, power

Lessons unlearned: How Covid-19 has destroyed our concept of democratic freedoms


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4 months ago

The Canada-Alberta M.O.U. solves nothing; bigger problems lie ahead - Prince Albert Daily Herald If one were to take the pundits on CBC or CTV to heart, one would have to seriously believe that the Memorandum of Understanding signed by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney is either a capitulation by the federal government to the demands of a premier brandishing the separatist sword, or is

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4 months ago

SP Convention motion demonstrates contempt for democratic principles - Prince Albert Daily Herald Tomorrow’s my birthday, and although I’ve been having a rough week trying to get business issues resolved, the only thing I can think about at the moment is how mind bendingly bizarre it was last Saturday to start listening to a post in Facebook coming online and an opinion being expressed on voting rights by

SP Convention motion demonstrates contempt for democratic principles


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4 months ago

Smith’s agenda: Confuse the press and public – then repeat - Prince Albert Daily Herald Why it is that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is still desperately trying to sell Alberta separation as an option? It now seems there’s growing frustration with that option. That’s coming from a population only too willing to sign a petition telling Smith to forget about it. Still, at first glance most news watchers would have

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5 months ago

Alberta’s gambling addiction becoming dangerous to Canada - Prince Albert Daily Herald Ken MacDougall Submitted I watched everyone go nuts at the Northern Lights Casino Wednesday night, as the TORONTO Blue Jays – you know, that baseball team from “The Big Smoke”, drew ever closer to becoming World Series champions again after 32 years of waiting, winning that game by a 6 – 1 score and going

Alberta’s gambling addiction becoming dangerous to Canada


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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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5 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

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6 months ago

Can Piaget’s theories help cleanse our dystopian universe? - Prince Albert Daily Herald When I first decided to become a teacher, I never considered it to be a position wherein one could become a “political instrument”, especially when the subject in which I was planning to specialize was High School Mathematics; man, I’ve never been so “wrong” in my life. Please don’t misinterpret that statement to be me

Can Piaget’s theories help cleanse our dystopian universe?


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6 months ago

How we are supposed to “learn”, and why we no longer are - Prince Albert Daily Herald Over the past five weeks, I have been attempting to paint an updated picture of an educational process that is ever increasingly stifling our capacity to learn. This phenomenon’s growth is now being fertilized by the complacency of governments unwilling to incorporate the increasing levels of scientific achievement in research into their economies through sheer

How we are supposed to “learn”, and why we no longer are


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6 months ago

Measuring the “worth” of today’s educational experience - Prince Albert Daily Herald I was beginning to think that the last three columns I’d written hadn’t had much in the way of readership, until a casual friend asked me straight out, “What is the big deal about the government dropping provincial exams? Don’t you realize that virtually every teacher, at least at the high school level thinks you’ve

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7 months ago

The provincial exam program is ending: are “standards” truly needed to define “quality” in education? In last week’s column, instead of freaking out over the latest shenanigans being orchestrated by Canada’s very own “Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse”

The provincial exam program is ending: are “standards” truly needed to define “quality” in education?


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8 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

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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

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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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

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

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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

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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1 year ago

NDP deserves more credit than federal Conservatives give it Most of my readers will recall my concern as to why our local MP, Randy Hoback, is trying to portray Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh as being nothing more than

NDP deserves more credit than federal Conservatives give it


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