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From Where I Sit – Just for Today

Anyone (and everyone) with email has received inspirational, motivational, tear-jerking pieces that tug at the heart strings. Often there is music or poignant images. Way too often there is the exhortation to send this along to ten or 12 people in the next seven minutes. I admit that most of the time I read and… Read more »

Rite of Way

?I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.? Albert Einstein Rituals. We all have them. There are physical rituals (your partner brushes his teeth using a weirdly rigorous technique). There are emotional rituals (your colleague plays BTO’s ?Taking Care of Business? before every staff meeting). And… Read more »

The Mindful Bard – Rah Rah, Going Steady

CD: Rah Rah, Going Steady Label: Young Soul Records Release date: 2008 Would It Help if Love Songs Weren’t Just Meant to Get You Into Somebody’s Pants? ‘Many years ago Somebody else stood right where I’m standing now. Somebody drank the water that I drink. Now that It’s the new millennium You just gotta stop… Read more »

Education News – Changes made to Ontario student financial assistance

WATERLOO (CUP) ? John Milloy, Ontario’s Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities, announced earlier this month that the province will see changes to its Distance and Textbook and Technology Grants, available to Ontario post-secondary students. The new requirements only permit students who qualify and receive the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) to receive the grants…. Read more »

Dear Barb – Unruly Kids Strain Sisterly Bond

Dear Barb: My sister and I have always been close. When I got married I was anxious for her to get married so we would have children close in age. Fortunately my sister got married two years after I did and today we both have two young children who are close in age. Well, things… Read more »

AUSU This Month – Annual AGM Held; Media Committee Started

Annual AGM Held As you probably already know from the AGM Report put out by the Voice, AUSU held its annual general meeting on March 23, 2009. In that meeting a number of important revisions to the definitions of AUSU membership occurred, to make sure that the Councillors you elect are able to represent you… Read more »

From Where I Sit – My Kind of Town

After I graduated from high school eons ago the logical location for post-secondary studies was Edmonton. Edmonton was only an hour away. I was interested in the field of social work but the only degree program in Alberta was at the University of Calgary. Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton had a two-year diploma program and… Read more »

On the Hill – Move Over, Mr. Heep

?Oh, no! I’m a very ?umble person,? says Dickens’s Uriah Heep, that writhing, obsequious character in David Copperfield. And one might be forgiven, with all the wiggling and evading going on at the Oliphant inquiry these days, for thinking that Uriah Heep himself had taken the stand. But no. Instead of Uriah’s memorable brand of… Read more »