Now we know the Toronto and national media’s game. Pick the poll results that are unfavourable to any conservative party in Canada ( federal or provincial), in this case, the Ontario PCs, and splash those results across the land. Conservatives are bad. Liberals and NDP … Continue reading →
Crux of the Matter | more | posted April 20th, 2012
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The dates are set, the call for speakers is open, and the website is up: WordCamp San Francisco returns this July 26-27 (with Contribute Day — formerly known as “Hack Day” — on the 28th)! WordCamp San Francisco was the first-ever WordCamp and is the official, annual WordPress conference. It’s a great place to come meet [...]
Crux of the Matter | more | posted April 17th
We’re constantly working on updates to our mobile apps to make your WordPress.com experience on the go the best it can be. Today, we’ve jubilantly released version 2.3 of WordPress for Android to Google Play. After updating, you’ll see right away that this release includes very exciting updates to the user interface. Let’s dive in [...]
Crux of the Matter | more | posted April 17th
This post is about Dr. Kermit Gosnell and his abortion clinic of horrors. If you have a weak stomach, stop reading now. My point for writing it is two-fold. First, I want to expose the butchery and racism than so many in the mainstream media don’t want to touch. Because, apart from the Atlantic (H/T [...]
Crux of the Matter | more | posted April 14th
The Beatles song starts off: ”You say you want a revolution?” Well, Canada you had better be careful what you wish for because it seems that, if the federal NDP under Thomas Mulcair, ever led a minority (via a coalition with the Liberals) or a majority government, they would inflict a trade union mentality and socialist revolution on all of [...]
Crux of the Matter | more | posted April 13th
Update April 12th, 2013: Originally posted on April 1st, 2013 at 10:32am, I have put this post at the top for the foreseeable future. More recent posts related to education or politics can be found below this one. Visitors can also look under the “Recent Posts” heading on the sidebar. [...] Original post started here: When I started Studio [...]
Crux of the Matter | more | posted April 12th
Thank you Frederic Bastien and the recent release of your book, in French, ”La bataille de Londres,” for getting the controversial issues out into the public sphere re the process of patriation of the Canadian Constitution in 1982. Thirty-one years and we are only now finding out the truth — and no thanks to current senior [...]
Crux of the Matter | more | posted April 12th
Ontario voters have a choice to make in the next Ontario election, which likely is not far away. Yes, as the blue in this CBC electoral map indicates (takes a minute to load), it was primarily voters in the City of Toronto, parts of the GTA, Ottawa and Windsor who gave the Liberals the most seats in the October 2011 election campaign, [...]
Crux of the Matter | more | posted April 11th
It was very strange reading and listening to all the nastiness being expressed yesterday by British and Canadian “progressives” and liberals (particularly on Twitter) about former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on news of her death. A s an adult and an academic working in education at the time of her premiership, she was one of [...]
Crux of the Matter | more | posted April 9th
When I started Studio Madelyn at Etsy.com two months ago in early February, 2013, I was just offering new designs for sale. Now, however, I am also offering a wide range of new “old” designs as well. Specifically, one of the things I now do at Studio Madelyn is renew or recreate vintage jewellery. Etsy.com [...]
Crux of the Matter | more | posted April 1st
A practising teacher acquaintance of mine stopped by this morning with a fundraising letter and postcard from the David Suzuki Foundation. Yes, that’s right. The David Suzuki Foundation is sending propaganda fundraiser letters to schools and teachers to ask for donations. They also expect educators to send a pre-printed post card which they (the Foundation) will [...]
Crux of the Matter | more | posted March 28th
Many Ontario consumers are facing the reality that their ‘small’ local hydro distribution company (LDC) will be forcibly merged into a much larger one. Why? Ostensibly to save money. As the Liberal government appointed multi-partisan Panel — Murray Elston, a former Ontario Liberal Cabinet Minister, David McFadden, a former ONPC MPP and former NDP Finance Minister Floyd Laug
Crux of the Matter | more | posted March 23rd
Yesterday, we heard Conservative Finance Minister Jim Flaherty deliver the 2013 federal budget. One of the items getting a lot of attention was the announcement that the federal government would provide a jobs grant of $15,000 so that employers could train the skilled personnel they need — $5000 from the employer, $5000 from the federal government [...]
Crux of the Matter | more | posted March 22nd
The reality is that India is supposed to be the world’s largest democracy. Yet, how can it be considered a democracy when a form of labour slavery is still condoned? For example, check out the video at this CNN link (which takes a few seconds to fully load). It is about bonded labour slavery. I felt sick to my stomach when [...]
Crux of the Matter | more | posted March 21st
I recently put up a post complaining that Blogging Tories entries were on the decline and that political blogging, in general, had jumped the shark. I also complained that the good discussions that used to be normal, had disappeared as well (while acknowledging that some Conservative forums like BLY were still popular). The result of that post was interesting. For [...]
Crux of the Matter | more | posted March 7th
I am noticing that there are far fewer conservative bloggers writing posts for the Blogging Tories (BT) aggregator. I mean, in the seven years I have been blogging, I can remember when it took only a few hours for a post to go from the BT’s Page One to Page Two. Now, blog posts can sit [...]
Crux of the Matter | more | posted March 3rd
Ontario’s public secular elementary teachers have become the poster image for what Entitled, Spoiled, Unrealistic and Narcissist looks and sounds like, thanks to their union spokespeople, particularly ETFO, which is still demanding that their members not provide extra-curricular activities. Although, OSSTF is not much better, referring to extra-curricular as “voluntary” acti
Crux of the Matter | more | posted March 2nd
Attention Elizabeth May, Leader of Canada’s Green Party and National Post columnist Andrew Coyne. As Simon Heffer writes in a UK Mail on Line column (H/T JNW), Italy today is why Rep by Pop or PR (Proportional Representation) doesn’t work, as in provide political stability. In fact, according to Heffer, Italy has had 61 governments in 68 years [...]
Crux of the Matter | more | posted February 27th
One of the assumptions in this past week’s Ontario Progressive Conservative Party’s (ONPCs) White Paper on post secondary education and jobs is that if government “post-secondary education” policy is just right, every individual who wants a good paying job following an apprenticeship, college or university program, will find one. And, I suspect the Liberal Party of Ont
Crux of the Matter | more | posted February 16th
A few days ago, the Ontario Progressive Party (ONPC) released a White Paper on post-secondary education and training. One of the primary recommendations made by the PCs was to try to link the types of job skills employers need to training opportunities — with the ultimate outcomes being jobs filled. I referred to the mix as “supply management education” [...]
Crux of the Matter | more | posted February 15th
Yesterday, the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party (ONPC) released its eleventh White Paper, this one being on post-secondary education and training titled “Higher Learning for Better Jobs. My first reaction? Supply management education and nanny statism in the extreme — a hard thing to say for a usual PC supporter! Why do I not support the [...]
Crux of the Matter | more | posted February 13th
Surely, this latest story about Megan Thode, a graduate of Bethlehem,PA Lehigh University, suing Lehigh for $1.3 million dollars, proves that entitlement has run amuck. Now, it seems that no matter what work you do, whether you actually meet your obligations or not, you deserve at least a B. The problem? Thode needed a B in a fieldwork course in [...]
Crux of the Matter | more | posted February 13th
Check out www.studiomadelyn.ca. As many Crux of the Matter regulars know, just over a week ago I opened a new online store at http://www.etsy.com/shop/StudioMadely. What many don’t know is that I have also opened a self-hosted wordpress.com website/blog which is what the www.studiomadelyn.ca links to. What I sell is what I am calling “innovative handmade practical [...]
Crux of the Matter | more | posted February 12th
There is a lot of debate going on right now that both today’s kids, and their kids in the future, will not need cursive writing because everything will be done on computers or other similar forms of technology. Jacks Newswatch has a good article on that today. The positive message I take from that CTV [...]
Crux of the Matter | more | posted February 11th
Truly, plagiarism has become an epidemic! A couple of months ago, allegations were thrown at Canadian journalist Margaret Wente for what she claimed was an inadvertent error. Then, Chris Spence, the Director of Canada’s largest school board, the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), resigned after admitting he had plagiarized. Today, we read that an Angela Merkel ally, German Education
Crux of the Matter | more | posted February 10th
I find it somewhat odd that the federal opposition and liberal mainstream media are all over Senator Mike Duffy for spending more time in Ottawa than at his property in PEI. I mean, isn’t the man a Senator — meaning he has to be in Ottawa in person when the Senate is sitting? Plus, didn’t Duffy [...]
Crux of the Matter | more | posted February 9th
During the 2011 Ontario election campaign, I constantly heard that conservatives didn’t know what ONPC Leader Tim Hudak stood for or what the party would do if elected with a majority government. Sure, there was a platform but it was just too big and cumbersome for the average person to dig through. Not so this time [...]
Crux of the Matter | more | posted February 8th
Late term abortion: manslaughter or murder? Now we are learning from Statistics Canada that each year there are hundreds of babies aborted in Canada who are alive at birth – but subsequently allowed to die. See Blue Like You for other links (and this Google search page) on this issue as well. Viability cannot be the [...]
Crux of the Matter | more | posted February 3rd
I don’t usually advertise but, given my online jewellery store just went live this afternoon, I am kind of excited and thought I would share the good news. As many of my Crux of the Matter regulars know, in what now seems … Continue reading →
Crux of the Matter | more | posted February 2nd
What an embarrassment the Toronto Star has become. The online Free Dictionary defines the word “whine” as when someone utters: “a plaintiff, high pitched, protracted sound, as in pain, fear, supplication or complaint…or to complain or protest in a childish fashion.” Well, if that doesn’t describe yesterday’s Star column by professional journalists Tonda
Crux of the Matter | more | posted January 31st
For nearly two years now, we Canadians have had a majority Conservative government in Ottawa and, for the most part, things have been going pretty well. In fact, Canada is the envy of the G8 and G20. While the deficit is not going down as fast as some of us had hoped, and the Conservatives [...]
Crux of the Matter | more | posted January 29th
I began my day with the intention of analyzing and writing a post about the Ontario PC’s white paper on the future of education in Ontario – which was released yesterday. Of course, I didn’t know whether I would be totally positive about the paper or not, but I assumed I would. So, imagine my surprise this morning [...]
Crux of the Matter | more | posted January 25th
The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party (ONPCs) should add penalties to the Ontario Education Act because, what many don’t seem to realize, is that while teacher duties (job description) are already listed in detail in the Act, there is no evidence of any Regulation that would ensure those duties be complied with. In other words, there doesn’t seem to be any legal [...]
Crux of the Matter | more | posted January 22nd
Last week I wrote a post explaining some of the reason I disagreed with the key principle in the ONPC White Paper titled “Welfare to Work” and its key proposal to integrate Ontario Works (OW) and the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) into a single income support program. What I didn’t discuss then is how that integration could undermine a [...]
Crux of the Matter | more | posted January 22nd
What is it about former Canadian prime ministers that they feel they can butt into the current Conservative government’s business? This is not the late 1970s, 80s or 2002. They had their chance to do something and they didn’t. In fact, I would say the only former prime minister who has the right to say [...]
Crux of the Matter | more | posted January 20th
Clearly, my fellow Blogging Tory, Daniel Dickin did not read the full Ontario “Work to Welfare” PDF document. I mean, he could not have read the entire White Paper and still had the nerve to write: “Who would be against such … Continue reading →
Crux of the Matter | more | posted January 18th
Oh boy, I’m going to hear from my fellow Ontario teachers now. I wrote recently that they knew about extra-curricular duties when they were in teacher’s college, so should just stop complaining. Now, Howard Levitt and the Financial Post has come out … Continue reading →
Crux of the Matter | more | posted January 17th
Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak and MPP Toby Barrett released a White Paper today on how, if a PC majority government were elected, it would reform the social welfare system. Titled “Welfare to Work,” some ideas are excellent in principle, while others would likely … Continue reading →
Crux of the Matter | more | posted January 17th
Everyone who has followed this site for the seven years I have been blogging knows I am a supporter of Ontario PC Tim Hudak. I think he would be an outstanding Premier. In fact, my interview with him is at the … Continue reading →
Crux of the Matter | more | posted January 16th
As Senator Brazeau writes in today’s National Post, the key to First Nations progress is accountability. I would also add that leadership, or a complete lack thereof, is part of accountability and the reason why there still isn’t a new elementary school on the … Continue reading →
Crux of the Matter | more | posted January 15th
As a retired teacher and teacher-educator, I am getting sick and tired of all the complaining from ETFO President Sam Hammond (H/T Jack’s Newswatch # 1) regarding extra-curricular activities. There isn’t a single employed public school teacher, elementary or secondary, that wasn’t told … Continue reading →
Crux of the Matter | more | posted January 14th
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