Friday, April 29, 2011  Michael Ignatieff Gets a New Pair of
Shoes     I realized I had just met someone from Harper's base.
Been a long day.     1. Two courses that should be mandatory in
the last year of high school are civics and basic logic.    2.
Exactly. There is so much ignorance. But one thing is clear.
People want Harper out    3. And Canada history. But just having
a course is not enough. As someone pointed out, why spend a
month on Vasco de Gama and just a few hours on contemporary
Canadian history?      Also in Quebec they should teach what was
going on in the rest of Canada. (The reverse is true for other
provinces.) The Patriots' revolt for instance, in 1837, was also
in Upper Canada, basically for the same reasons (taxation
without representation). There was a monument to the Patriots in
Sault Ste. Marie but it was demolished (!) in the 1980s.    4. i
got a match on votepair, feel good about it.