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Vancouver,the heavenly city of my birth, got more awful news last week concerning its...
Listening to Stephanie Cadieux talk about the B.C. government’s record on child care,you’d think...
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Here’s a puzzle: if U.S. students execute so badly on international tests,especially in math,...
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Kids arrive at school with large achievement gaps between rich and destitute,and that achievement...
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Traci Chun,a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, and is all done with...
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I’ve always assumed that students who were pleased at school would be more receptive to learning...
Growth mindset theory,the opinion that intelligence is malleable and can grow, has taken the...
Another day,another “pro-life” hypocrisy (Pretending to have feelings, beliefs, or virtues that...
As of Sunday,Patty Jenkins‘ Wonder Woman has topped $570 million in earnings worldwide, and...
Before starting nearly every column,I think to myself “isn’t this sort of an obvious...
There is a risky new trend within the world of opinion media and theatrical arts and that is the...
By promising to finally let Uber operate in British Columbia,Christy Clark’s governing Liberals...
After more than 30 years in journalism,here’s something I know for certain: You can show that...
I was not surprised final week to learn that the Port Mann Bridge project had lost a staggering $407...
Kicking off the unique Year is a marvelous time to put the task of making your end-of-life wishes at...
Over the past several years,there have been multiple instances of air passengers retrieving their...
Have U.S. schools become more racially segregated in the past two decades? It should seem a simple...
For some education experts,“personalized” learning isn’t only approximately figuring out how...
With U.S. tall school graduation rates surpassing 84 percent and hitting record highs,year after...
It’s 12:15 p.m. on a Tuesday in December and 30 students gather for an strange lesson at the Bronx...
The saddest stories among those who owe some of the $1.3 trillion in student loan debt are those of...
The “wait and see” attitude approximately President Trump’s Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is...
Growth mindset theory,the idea that intelligence is malleable and can grow, has taken the education...
As a string of reports containing bombshell revelations roiled President Donald Trump’s...
In final week’s budget,the provincial government continued to ignore the crisis of poverty and...
After final week’s breathless excitement about approaching relief for tapped-out B.C....
I won’t be watching the Academy Awards later this month. I’ve become way too celebri-grumpy”...
With the exception of a lost weekend that lasted five years,I possess been an avid runner since...
With all the chatter approximately soaring property assessments,property taxes and people losing...
Q: I have a bad habit of leaving gift shopping until the final minute. Then I rush around exhausted...
Teaching assistants may sometimes feel like the Rodney Dangerfields of the classroom. They don’t...
Executive function — a sort of air traffic controller of the brain — has been one of the...
Just like athletes become stronger under the guidance of a suitable coach,so enact teachers. There...
Economists have been finding that it’s getting harder to slouch up in America. Kids who approach...
The 2008 recession may seem like a long time ago,hitting before Barack Obama began his presidency,...
Ever since the federal government mandated annual testing for U.S. public school children in...
Undergraduate students are taking too many classes. That may sound like a kind problem to have: Why...
Much of the fledgling Trump Administration has been consumed by extremely negative news...
For the first time in a quarter of a century, the British electorate has an opportunity to make a...
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In a wide-ranging interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour final week,Hillary Clinton signaled her...
As a tribute to Stuart McLean,Canada’s finest storyteller who passed away Wednesday, I’d like...
While it might be a function of getting older,I increasingly find myself these days wondering...
A decade ago,English teacher David Narter had a revelation. One of his students had asked for...
Two studies on how best to teach elementary schools students — one on the popular trend of...
Deborah Loewenberg Ball,an expert in elementary school math instruction and professor of education...
When Florida opened the door 17 years ago for two-year colleges to offer bachelor’s degrees,they...
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The United States may be known for its rugged individualism. But it turns out American...
In 2003,when Parag Pathak was a graduate student at Harvard, he helped design the computer algorithm...
It’s been hard to prove that attending preschool makes a difference for kids,academically. Many...
final year,Twitter responded to increased attention on harassment and abuse on its website — most...
In a day and age in which female politicians are receiving death and rape threats for doing their...
Vancouver’s Renewable City Strategy is ambitious,unrealistic and fossil foolery that will create...
March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day. Everyone who drinks alcohol — at least,everyone who ever drinks...
As protests depart,the rally at the Trump Tower this week won’t be remembered alongside...
During my morning commute Monday I witnessed something that’s fitting all too common in the Lower...
Excuse me whether I don’t join the braying mob of Lower Mainland residents haranguing municipal...
Q: I’ve been living paycheque to paycheque for years even though I make a good living as a...
Christmas comes easy for kids. Wake up. Open a bunch of presents. Eat. Play. fancy. The day may...
In 2004,the late Harvard political scienceprofessor Sam Huntington made the argument that recent...
Dear Passenger,I see you. I see you, the family on the vacation you hold been planning and saving up...
One of the mammoth policy debates in education is whether paying teachers bonuses increases student...
Montessori schools have many faithful devotees and they’re certainly rising in popularity among...
As I prepared to write this column,I relied on some pretty typical study techniques. First, as Ive...
The world’s developed nations are placing a big bet on education investments,wagering that highly...
On Thursday,that is, the same day new evidence surfaced that actor and alleged domestic...
“get America Great Again” might own been the official slogan of Donald Trump‘s 2016...
Leftovers star Amy Brenneman had an abortion,wholeheartedly supports abortion rights, and, and...
Following an article by Vox featuring eight awkward interviews with GOP senators struggling to reply...
It is increasingly clear that we live a world turned upside-down. This is particularly obvious in...
On Thursday, former FBI Director James Comey will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee....
Huffington Post's senior culture writer,Zeba Play, blasted Vice President Mike Pence on Monday...
Trump super-fan Ann Coulter raised eyebrows nowadays with her comments to The Daily Caller in which...
Last night,I wrote approximately my initial reactions to President Trump’s shocking firing of FBI...
After nearly a decade of volunteering in minor hockey,I’ve arrive to a sad...
Well,the green activists posing as politicians at Vancouver City corridor are at it again —...
If Premier Christy Clark does not cleave the provincial sales tax in Tuesday’s budget,it will now...
I walked past a phone booth the other day. OK,it wasn’t a booth. It was a public phone on a cement...
A few years back,an broken-down tall school acquaintance would phone me at work every few months...
There are millions of people around the world who can only dream about starting a new life in a...
With Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announcing earlier this month it will no longer...
It should surprise no one that Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson is Canada’s...
News recently of the arrest of a waiter at a Sherbrooke,Que., restaurant prompted by a customer’s...
In the land of parenting there are two camps: those who think educational videos can be sterling...
The average performance of the nation’s fourth- and eighth-graders mostly held regular in math and...
I recently shelled out the most money I acquire ever paid for an airliner model in a lifetime of...
No question, remedial education needs an overhaul. Millions of young adults get trapped in...
A year ago,a group of prominent economists led by Raj Chetty of Stanford University came out with a...
GOP Senator Tom Cotton’s intern is not shy approximately spouting off incendiary comments,as the...
Caitlyn Jenner is a complicated woman,in a complicated family, whose gender often stirs up...
On Saturday,more than 600 protesters gathered outside an abortion clinic in Charlotte, North...
It is perfectly emblematic of this era of ridiculously short attention spans that,by the time former...
In the first few hours of the London terror attack,President Trump communicated to the nation via...
There is an episode of Seinfeld in which George,while being dumped, is hit with the It’s not you,...
Monday afternoon the political and media establishment was once again horrified by a revelation...
Reviewing Wednesday’s federal budget through the lens of a Lower Mainlander,it was a bit of a...
Looks like the fight over Vision Vancouver’s Point Grey Road mega-project is heating up again....
The Montreal Canadiens came and went Tuesday night. I won’t discuss the outcome of the match,as...
The Trudeau Liberals campaigned heavily in 2015 on improving the economy,particularly for...
Power play for kids Finding themselves back in the playoff hunt at the National Hockey League...
It’s an experience almost everyone has had at least once in their life — getting a job in a...
A few years back,I had this dog in my life named Mia. She was a sheltie, and, and for the most...
Is the U.S. educational system beginning to decay? I don’t like to be alarmist,or give too much...
A teacher stands at a white board in front of her fourth-grade class and begins teaching one of...
School district administrators and principals are inundated with salesmen peddling computers and...
Today’s digital devices and social networks deliver so much information that even the savviest...
Fox and Friends is one of the few outlets that affirms the success stories of the Trump...
On Monday,the National Women’s Law Center filed a suit against the Education Department in an...
The raft of recent news surrounding President Trump’s “non-traditional” manner in the Oval...
Q: My husband and I are blessed with two happy and healthy kids aged seven and nine. Its tough to...
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I am reminded often of how we live in something of a pot bubble here in Vancouver — how...
With the B.C. government’s promise of tens of thousands of jobs in a new liquefied natural gas...
It came to my attention some time last year that the Lower Mainland United Way is no longer using...
Prime time to shine Steered by two-time chair Alice Chung and vice-chair Judy Leung,and with the...
I’m going to do something accurate now that I don’t judge Ive ever done in my whole career as a...
Here we are in the biggest fatal overdose epidemic in B.C. history and what’s top of mind for the...
Wine Stopper John and Nina Cassils once again fronted their eighth annual Taste the World Gala...
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. released its December and 2016 year-finish numbers for housing...
By approving the controversial Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion well before the May election,Premier...
I was driving along Cambie the other morning listening to Jim Rome on the radio. Rome is an...
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The 2016 shooting death of Philando Castile by police officer Jeronimo Yanez may very well be a...
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In the wake of the horrendous attempted massacre of the Republican Congressional Baseball team on...
As rumors of a White House shake up persist,there is a dirty little secret being whispered within...
Is there anything more useless than Earth Hour? I know Vancouver is pretending to be the Greenest...
As they absorb with many folks in Vancouver,smiling young Telus agents absorb been dropping...
Ten years ago,when I was commerce editor at The Province, a company behind one of those DNA test...
An Icelandic politician breastfed her baby while delivering a speech in parliament recently. No one...
With the provincial election looming,the B.C. Teachers’ Federation and others are once again...
I am agnostic on things pertaining to a divinity. On the question of faith and the afterlife,I tend...
At least once a year,the University of B.C. shows up in the news, crowing excitedly approximately...
The latest census data came out Wednesday and,as can be expected, most people focused on the...
When Premier Christy Clark accused the NDP of trying to illegally hack into the B.C. Liberal...
I saw Scott for the first time in years earlier this month. We met at a Waves coffee house halfway...
Q: I recently applied for a car loan but was told that because of some negative information on my...
Q: I recently applied for a car loan but was told that because of some negative information on my...
Here we recede again. Another week,another massive study by top doctors and scientists finding very...
Q: My husband and I own been looking at options how to deal with what we owe,and debt consolidation...
In another life,25 years or so ago, I stumbled upon some freelance work reviewing restaurants in...
Jamie Jirout was not the sort of student who simply took a textbook at its word. In her first...
A funny thing happened in the Dutch city of Maastricht in the drop of 2011. A policy went into...
Sometimes there are conundrums within the increasingly complex world of the news media which hold no...
You don’t know of the Washington Generals? They are the “professional” basketball team that...
Well this is embarrassing. In the wake of the Bill Maher “n-word” controversy,there has been no...
Despite all the self-inflicted chaos and line-up changes in recent months,Fox News still finds...
These United States of America currently finds itself in a very divided state. Red State versus Blue...
I find myself reacting lately to some financial stories that have made their way into the...
They actually listened. In his 2017-18 B.C. Budget,released Feb. 21, Finance Minister Mike de Jong...
I first really took notice of Jane Wan perhaps seven years ago. She appeared in my life as the woman...
More than 20 years ago,psychologists Betty Hart and Todd Risley discovered what they called the...
On Wednesday, an exasperated Sen. Elizabeth Warren took to the senate floor to talk approximately...
In our daily newsletter we choose the media winners and losers of each day from the world of...
The media world woke up nowadays to find that Alex Jones had leaked a phone call with NBC News...
On Monday,Ivanka Trump sat down for an interview with Fox and Friends, and ironically enough, and...
The greedy, out-of-control fundraising by the B.C. Liberals has generated lots of loot for Premier...
An openly partisan coalition of labour unions and internationally funded environmental activists...
Bruce Batchelor is a man of modest means with not-so-modest ambitions. “I am trying to change the...
Q: I’m embarrassed to confess that I’ve been struggling to pay off $500 that I borrowed from an...
School of fish The Pacific Salmon Foundation is an independent, non-governmental agency committed to...
A few days ago, I was shown a remarkable document that appeared to be an internal B.C. Liberal Party...
Apparently Vancouver has a original season — the housing unaffordability season — that gloomy...
On Jan. 26,somewhere at an undisclosed location in Kelowna, Christy Clark will sit down to a private...
On Wednesday, an exasperated Sen. Elizabeth Warren took to the senate floor to talk approximately...
InfoWars editor-at-large Paul Joseph Watson confessed in an interview with Vice women’s site...
B.C. Mines Minister Bill Bennett said he found out that a First Nations group had staked a mining...
Apparently Vancouver has a original season — the housing unaffordability season — that gloomy...
Now that the dust is finally starting to settle from President Trump’s stunning firing of then FBI...
Carrying on The night before the Jewish Community Centre’s biggest fundraiser, a bomb threat...
It’s discouraging to witness the co-ordinated assault by misguided activists on the police...
Flight of fancy Making my list of B.C.’s top 10 parties of 2016, the Surrey Hospital and...