Earlier this week, schools in Southern California’s Menifee Union school district have had all Merriam Webster dictionaries removed from classrooms because a 5th-grade student found the definition for “oral sex” within the book.
The board has formed a panel that will determine whether or not this ban on dictionaries will be made permanent. “It’s hard [...]
We’ve heard a lot about the devastation wrecked on the island nation of Haiti in the magnitude 7.0 earthquake and subsequent powerful aftershocks of January 12, 2010. An estimated 3 million people were directly affected by the natural disaster. So far, response efforts have been deemed lacking in both efficiency and effectiveness. Almost two weeks [...]
Haiti doesn’t exist anymore, as we know it. The major ports are unusable, the airport is down, most of the capitol is destroyed, the government is not in charge, hospitals and schools have collapsed, the penitentiary has broken down and most of the prisoners have escaped, and as many as 2% of the population have [...]
Google is in the news once again.
Their announcement demanding that China stop censoring Internet searches or risk a complete pullout by Google sent shockwaves throughout the online world on Wednesday. Google made precedent by standing up to the communist regime, in a move which many are calling the popular website a “champion of free speech”.
It [...]
In December, London residents rejoiced as news broke that the month-long LTC bus strike was finally over. Less than a month later, the Ontario DriveTest centres reopened their doors after a four-month long strike. Now, it seems as if Ontario is about to face another strike, one that has the potential to interrupt the education [...]
One of the most contentious topics in examining corporate responsibility is the difficulty that governments face in enacting legislation to punish both government officials and corporate firms that succumb to bribery in the course of their operations. The global crackdown, initiated by the U.S. after a series of questionable business transactions between American and Chinese [...]
Stephen Harper has prorogued Parliament the second time in as many years, and it looks like no one appreciates his latest move.
Suspending Parliament until March in the hope that the Olympics would distract the public from the Afghan detainee inquiry does not sit well with the populace, with an EKOS poll revealing that 63%; of [...]
I think the most dreaded period of a university student’s academic year is the beginning of a new term. It isn’t the revival of learning and the realization of the work that will accompany that I fear, because in all honestly I love the clean slate a new school term offers: new professors, new material, [...]
