Professor Fiamengo discusses how feminism is creeping into the sciences with special emphasis on recent incidents in Astronomy.
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Thursday, March 24, 2016
Another Sanctuary Defiled: Women In Astronomy
Professor Fiamengo discusses how feminism is creeping into the sciences with special emphasis on recent incidents in Astronomy.
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Liz Sandals grilled over $300M cost to set up benefits trusts for teachers, school staff
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| Education Minister Liz Sandals, left, acknowledged it will take time to reap the rewards of consolidating the plans for life, health and dental benefits run jointly by school boards and various education unions. |
“It’s another example of this government not being honest with Ontarians,” NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said after Sandals insisted the money will cut benefits costs by consolidating about 1,000 such plans at school boards across the province into five.
The $300 million has nothing to do with wages to teachers and other unionized education workers, Sandals said.
She maintained her promise that contracts would be “net zero” in terms of additional costs to taxpayers but insisted that did not include such administrative expenses.
“This isn’t about a compensation cost, this is an investment in creating something different which over the long term will save us money, but it does require an up-front investment,” Sandals said.
“This really is a long-term project, which is why the start-up costs are so high.”
Progressive Conservative MPP Lisa MacLeod (Nepean-Carleton) accused Sandals of having a “credibility” problem.
She slammed “the audacity of the minister today to claim it is still a net zero when we know $300 million went into these secret payouts and benefit plans rather than into kids in the classroom.”
MacLeod said she is awaiting an examination of the expenses by auditor general Bonnie Lysyk. (more...)
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Canada's Erratic Wireless Prices, Broken Down By Province
Earlier this year the big three national carriers (Bell, Telus, Rogers) announced a fee hike on their cellphone plans, and blamed it, in part, on the falling Canadian dollar.
The hikes, however, don’t affect plan prices in Quebec, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The reason? The three provinces have regional wireless carriers — Sasktel in Saskatchewan, MTS in Manitoba and Videotron in Quebec.
The regional carriers offer rates lower than the national average, thus forcing the national carriers to either compete or get out.
This is something Canadians have known for a while, going so far as to create a black market for the cheaper prairie plans.
Even though Canadians, in general, pay some of the highest fees in the world, Canadians living outside the above three provinces are definitely getting the shorter end of the stick.
“The lack of competition is going to continue to increase prices. We need real competition here, not competition with spotty coverage that eventually gets acquired by the big three carriers,” Tanvir Toor told the Huffington Post Canada. (more...)
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Court 73: where UK institutions are ‘in the dock’ in CSA inquiry
Tucked away on the third floor at the back end of the Royal Courts of Justice is where British institutions will come under painful scrutiny.
This is where, for many years to come, the UK state and a lot of its public bodies will face accusations that they failed many of the nation’s children fundamentally. This is the courtroom where the overarching inquiry into child sex abuse (CSA) is holding its hearings.
This is Court 73. (more...)
Former high school student accuses Thornhill vice principal of sexual assault
A former student at St. Robert Catholic high school is accusing the vice-principal of sexual assault.
The alleged incident happened last July against a 17-year-old student, police said.
The suspect, who was arrested Tuesday, appeared in court to face charges of sexual assault and sexual exploitation.
The school board sent a letter home to parents today explaining the allegations and urging them to “respect the privacy of the individuals involved in this situation, and not to engage in speculation.”
Board communications manager Sonia Gallo said the board “takes this matter very seriously,” and has dispatched support staff including counsellors and psychologists to the school to assist staff and students. (more...)
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Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change
Liberal Fascism offers a startling new perspective on the theories and practices that define fascist politics. Replacing conveniently manufactured myths with surprising and enlightening research, Jonah Goldberg reminds us that the original fascists were really on the left, and that liberals from Woodrow Wilson to FDR to Hillary Clinton have advocated policies and principles remarkably similar to those of Hitler's National Socialism and Mussolini's Fascism.
Contrary to what most people think, the Nazis were ardent socialists (hence the term “National socialism”). They believed in free health care and guaranteed jobs. They confiscated inherited wealth and spent vast sums on public education. They purged the church from public policy, promoted a new form of pagan spirituality, and inserted the authority of the state into every nook and cranny of daily life. The Nazis declared war on smoking, supported abortion, euthanasia, and gun control. They loathed the free market, provided generous pensions for the elderly, and maintained a strict racial quota system in their universities—where campus speech codes were all the rage. The Nazis led the world in organic farming and alternative medicine. Hitler was a strict vegetarian, and Himmler was an animal rights activist.
Do these striking parallels mean that today’s liberals are genocidal maniacs, intent on conquering the world and imposing a new racial order? Not at all. Yet it is hard to deny that modern progressivism and classical fascism shared the same intellectual roots. We often forget, for example, that Mussolini and Hitler had many admirers in the United States. W.E.B. Du Bois was inspired by Hitler's Germany, and Irving Berlin praised Mussolini in song. Many fascist tenets were espoused by American progressives like John Dewey and Woodrow Wilson, and FDR incorporated fascist policies in the New Deal.
Fascism was an international movement that appeared in different forms in different countries, depending on the vagaries of national culture and temperament. In Germany, fascism appeared as genocidal racist nationalism. In America, it took a “friendlier,” more liberal form. The modern heirs of this “friendly fascist” tradition include the New York Times, the Democratic Party, the Ivy League professoriate, and the liberals of Hollywood. The quintessential Liberal Fascist isn't an SS storm trooper; it is a female grade school teacher with an education degree from Brown or Swarthmore.
These assertions may sound strange to modern ears, but that is because we have forgotten what fascism is. In this angry, funny, smart, contentious book, Jonah Goldberg turns our preconceptions inside out and shows us the true meaning of Liberal Fascism.
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