Archive 1997-2016
A local youth theatre group is challenging teens to face important issues in their lives.
Insight Theatre, using skits written and performed by high school students, is trying to inform and promote discussion among other teens. The group addresses issues such as discrimination, substance abuse, body image and sexual readiness.
Life isn’t easy for the residents of the Partridge Crop Reserve.
The chief is in Las Vegas — again. The band is in receivership — again. The welfare cheques are coming tomorrow, and until then smoking means picking butts out of ashtrays, eating means sardines on mouldy bread, and Melvin is sniffing gasoline to escape it all — again.
It’s Giller Prize time again, and Canada’s literati are excited about Canadian writers. That makes the Giller more valuable than its $25,000 prize.
The Giller Award was founded in 1994 by businessman Jack Rabinovitch in memory of his late wife, literary journalist Doris Giller.
When corporations reach out with fists full of money and seek partnerships with our public
education system, we should beware of Chaucer’s smile that hides the knife.
Cisco Systems Canada, which had $7.2 billion in revenue last year, has just secured a partnership with the Ottawa-Carleton School Board to train students for two to three years in computer networking. Cisco will train the teachers and provide the computer labs. The students get a certificate and a chance to work in the United States right out of high school.