Feb 14, 2017
Five ableist things I wish people would stop saying to me
Liz Kessler
"Normalcy" isn't possible, and it's not the goal, so trying to reassure me that I seem normal is useless.
Education
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Feb 12, 2017  Dear B.C. Liberals: Your budget priorities need fixing.Lizanne Foster Finance Minister De Jong's claims to a balanced budget actually reveal years of fiscal mismanagement and neglect. |
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Feb 12, 2017  Advocates of more choice in education unite to condemn school board chair's call for more choice in educationDavid J. Climenhaga When it comes to education in Alberta, it turns out that competition is always good … except when it isn't! Who knew? |
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Feb 10, 2017  ETFO launches tools to challenge racism and celebrate the achievements of Black CanadiansFor Black History month, ETFO has released a poster with 12 Black Order of Ontario awardees and, later this year, will release curriculum resources focusing on Black history, culture and issues. |
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Feb 8, 2017  In subversive move, Edmonton school board chair calls for optional Catholic programs in public schoolsDavid J. Climenhaga Horror-stricken Catholic school trustees quickly responded to Edmonton Public School Board Chair Michael Janz's call for optional Catholic programs in public schools. |
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Feb 8, 2017  Understanding climate change means reading beyond headlinesDavid Suzuki Trying to communicate complex ideas and distill entire studies into eye-catching headlines and brief stories can open the door to misinformation and limited understanding. |
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Jan 25, 2017  130 million girls deserve an education so they can become empowered womenDoreen Nicoll ONE has created a petition to help millions of girls get access to an education. The petition will be delivered to world leaders on March 8 to mark International Women’s Day. |
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Jan 20, 2017  Athabasca U's future seems brighter as Saskatchewan prof named to conduct sustainability reviewDavid J. Climenhaga Ken Coates is the Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan. |
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Jan 19, 2017  Canadian campuses working toward reconciliation have their work cut outEmily Blake Post-secondary institutions have been working to support the Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- but some are concerned if colonial institutions can ever achieve that end. |
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Jan 13, 2017  Canadian universities shifting to top-down, corporate governance are reading from the same playbookLuke Kalfleish The book is by Robert C. Dickeson and it's become a favourite of university administrators. Here's how to fight it. |
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Jan 9, 2017  Precarity in higher learning: Neoliberalism and contract faculty contract negotiations at WLUAw@l As contract faculty at Wilfrid Laurier University negotiate a new contract, many in the union have recognized their struggle as a moment in the widescale resistance to neoliberal ideologies. |
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Jan 6, 2017  Anticipated court scrap between government and home schoolers ends with whimper, not bangDavid J. Climenhaga Funding to a home-schooling association has been restored, but an agreement with the government of Alberta puts the group under the supervision of an administrator. |
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Dec 20, 2016  Revolutionary program empowers girls with media literacy and activism skillsTania Ehret #HerDigitalVisions is an afterschool program that works with self-identified girls, building media literacy skills in order to better establish power in an online world. |
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Dec 9, 2016  Political fiasco, Nova Scotia style!Christopher Majka In a panic, Nova Scotia government summoned the legislature to impose a contract on teachers working to rule. Ten minutes later it adjourned. What? I talked to my source, a fly on the wall. |
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Dec 7, 2016 McNeil Government incompetence hurting Nova Scotia families and failing the provincial education systemCUPE NS is calling out the McNeil Government and Minister of Education Karen Casey for their mishandling of negotiations with members of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union. |
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Dec 7, 2016  Grassroots learning and education beyond schoolTalking Radical Radio Jade Nasogaluak Carpenter and Liam O'Neill Gordon talk about the Calgary School of Informal Education. |
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Dec 6, 2016  New campus sex assault policies show Canadian universities still aren't listening to survivorsSophia Reuss Student activists and survivors of sexual violence have led the fight for policy development on Canadian campuses for decades. They've won important victories, but the fight continues. |
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Dec 1, 2016  Queen's history of white supremacy much longer than one racist partyAbigail Curlew National controversy flared up after the revelation of pictures from a party held near Queen's University campus where students dressed in racist costumes. But the problem is much deeper. |
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Nov 30, 2016  Queen's racist costumes not 'just a party' for students and graduates of colourKevin Hurren Attempts to shrug off the racist party at Queen's denies the real prejudice facing students and graduates of colour every day. |
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Nov 26, 2016  A public school teacher's perspective on a decade of cutsRedeye Rory Brown is President of the Vancouver Secondary Teachers' Association, a local of the BCTF. He has taught in Vancouver since 1999 and witnessed firsthand the effects of years of cutbacks. |
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Nov 25, 2016  Over a decade of cuts has led to crisis in B.C. public schoolsRedeye Since 2002, the Liberal government has been cutting education funding in B.C. resulting in program cutbacks, overcrowded classrooms and now, for many children, the loss of their neighbourhood school. |
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Nov 24, 2016  Student activists fighting climate change are also resisting the corporatization of Canadian universitiesrabble staff A generation of climate change student activists find they must navigate an increasingly corporate governance structure that relies on managerial buzzwords, stonewalling and secrecy. |
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Nov 22, 2016 Student activists aren't just fighting climate change. They're fighting corporate university bureaucracy.Emma Jackson A generation of climate change student activists find they must navigate an increasingly corporate governance structure that relies on managerial buzzwords, stonewalling and secrecy. |
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Nov 18, 2016  Teaching kids to resist the racist reality we are in and build the futureMaya Bhullar LeRoi Newbold talks to Activist Toolkit about the first Toronto Freedom School. |
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