My district finds itself in a bit of a pickle finance-wise this year.  Three factors have come together to create one of the toughest financial times this school district has faced.
The first is inability to raise our own funds.  The Saskatchewan government last year announced that it was removing the ability of local school boards [...]

Alfred Thompson mentioned earlier today via Twitter that he was interested in seeing medal counts per population for the countries involved.  Realising that this kind of math was right up my alley, I decided to make such a table for my own interest… The first four columns were what Alfred was talking about, and I [...]

The middle of this last week was spent in Saskatoon at the UofR’s internship seminar.  The seminar itself was nothing to get excited about; fairly routine procedural stuff.  In the course of one of the discussions, however, an interesting debate was launched.
We were talking about the law in Alberta whereby teachers have to inform parents [...]

It’s not like they had a choice – their ruling was limited to whether Proposition 8, which bans gay marriage, constituted an amendment or a revision to the state’s constitution.  If it was a revision, it would require more legislative steps before being enshrined in the constitution.  The court ruled that it was an amendment, [...]

CBC says the liberals have won in BC again.  That’s good news, I’m surprised they could win a third straight in this environment.

A Quebec dad has now been slapped down twice by courts in that province for attempting to impose some discipline on his daughter.  In the first instance, his 12-yr-old daughter sued him (!) for grounding her from a Grade 6 graduation trip on the grounds that she’s been posting inappropriate pictures to website which he’d [...]

In a story that we’ve been talking about on and off since August of 2003, Texas is once again at the forefront of the evolution/creation debate for schools.  Once again, textbooks are at issue.  After having defeated the Intelligent Design proponents in ’03, science teachers are back in the hot spot as a renewed attack [...]

I’m not sure the article can be explained any simpler than this: Preop transsexual files grievance over request to join women-only gym; owner says he was still thinking about it.
Two key quotes:
Afroze Edwards, a spokeswoman for the Ontario Human Rights Commission: “I think the important thing to remember there is how they identify themselves; what [...]

It sounds like Netanyahu has been chosen to be Israel Prime Minister.  Good news I think.  By the way, this election is a good reason to oppose proportional representation.  I’d hope he can form a government without extremists, and without the labor party.  He certainly has a tough job going forward, but I think he [...]

It appears the Israel election was pretty much a tie, with Kadima winning 29 seats and Likud 28.  I am a Netanyahu fan, so I was hoping for a Likud win.  Likud had been ahead in the polls.  The Labor party got crushed, and some right-wing party I’ve never heard of came third.  It is [...]

Interesting article on Canada’s relatively good position: http://www.newsweek.com/id/183670?from=rss.  The mortgage interest deductation v. homeowner percentage is notable.

So obviously, the big news in politics this week is the possibility that the government of Canada might be defeated on a confidence motion, possibly ushering in the first coalition government in over 90 years.  The fact that 114 Liberal and NDP MPs want to take the reins of government from 147 Conservative MPs is [...]