(originally posted at PoliticsRespun.org – see here) The recent controversy over the Vancouver School Board’s budget situation has been a bit of an interesting story to follow. Much like every other school board in the province, the VSB has been wrangling with a considerable problem: the costs of providing a high-quality public education continuously increase, [...]
Archives for June, 2010
Protecting the people elected to do the peoples’ work from the people who want them to do their work
Three days, a fake lake, and $1 billion dollars in security costs later, the G8/G20 meetings will have wrapped up by the afternoon of June 27. Over one hundred protestors will have been arrested, and as of the time of writing, at least three police cars have been burned. Hundreds of police officers will have [...]
“Do not simply, passively, only just think of the world. Change it too.”
Friends, Many people have asked me to share the text of my remarks to convocation today. You’ll find them below. But first – I really, truly, and strongly believe that all of our experiences from our adventures at university have been influenced by the people that we’ve been lucky to go through them with. All [...]