Okay, I just read the press release from the Canadian Association of University Teachers urging the NB government to reject the post secondary task force recommendations. “No other province in Canada has downgraded a university into a polytechnic – it…
Continue ReadingMomma, don’t let your babies grow up to be disgruntled cowboys
“My name is Ted, and one day……, …. I’ll be dead” I wanna be a Cowboy Boys don’t Cry Yesterday, I heard the oil & gas sector in Alberta responding to the call for higher royalties by saying it might…
Continue ReadingOuch, the polytechnic thing heats up
I just heard Saint John’s Elsie Wayne on CBC saying “there is no way in he….. they are taking our university away from us”. Then to add injury to insult CBC had their comedy team do a sketch about dumbing…
Continue ReadingHit in the arse with the dart
Have you ever walked through one of those pubs with the dart boards and worried some drunk will miss and hit you in the arse with a stray dart? That’s how I feel this morning. First, I read the Danny…
Continue ReadingAn example
Following on my previous blog, I want to reiterate that I don’t think that New Brunswick should try and compete with Ontario across the board. That is impossible. We don’t have the scale to do that. No, I am saying…
Continue ReadingA little perspective on the post secondary education debate
I heard Premier Graham this morning on the radio saying that his education reforms will be emulated by other provinces and states. The bold steps taken here will be the model for others to follow, he said. Hubris aside, the…
Continue ReadingA year of tough decisions
The T&T’s front page this morning is an article discussing the Premier’s first year in office. The Premier talks about the tough decisions made during the first year. Premier Shawn Graham isn’t making any apologies for the tough — and…
Continue ReadingWhat’s in a name?
The lead today in the TJ is about the recommendation to make three new ‘polytechnic’ schools in New Brunswick and the furor this is creating in Saint John. Apparently, there are a lot of folks that think a polytechnic is…
Continue ReadingPutting industry barons into perspective
The TJ is running a drooling editorial today about New Brunswick’s business moguls. The piece starts out with: The nineteenth century is often referred to as New Brunswick’s golden age. But the twentieth century was the age of New Brunswick’s…
Continue ReadingThe Bank of……
Got a chance to visit the Fort Beausejour today for the first time. It is doubly interesting to me because of its historical significance in an abstract sense (as an important historical reference point) and its foundational implications for the…
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