Tortured solitudes
April 7, 2008
Konrad Yakabuski (Language Neurosis Is Our Identity - April 5) decries the persistence of the so-called two solitudes, each side’s ”tortured relationship” with the other language, and the hijacking of early immersion in the name of elitism. New Brunswick should extend the privilege of early French immersion, rather than steal it from the children who already have it. Don’t blame them, or their parents, for the fact that their numbers are not larger. And while they’re at it, our governments should encourage more opportunities for cultural immersion; this would help bridge the solitudes. (Globe Insider subscribers only)
Inuit debate uranium ban
April 7, 2008
Labrador’s Inuit government votes this week on a motion to ban uranium mining for three years, a step that some residents of a remote community near a proposed mine say could cost them their jobs.
Nfld. deemed a tough place for pathologists
April 7, 2008
A consultant who studied the workload and pay rates for pathologists across Newfoundland and Labrador says the province could find it difficult to recruit and retain pathologists when there is already a shortage elsewhere.
Authorities baffled after shackled prisoner escapes custody
April 5, 2008
Nova Scotia’s top corrections official admits he’s baffled as to how a dangerous, handcuffed prisoner managed to slip out of double-locked leg irons, then elude capture after a brief foot chase.
Nfld. deemed a tough place for pathologists
April 5, 2008
A consultant who studied the workload and pay rates for pathologists across Newfoundland and Labrador says the province could find it difficult to recruit and retain pathologists when there is already a shortage elsewhere.
PEI plans to create new holiday in February
April 5, 2008
Prince Edward Island is creating a new holiday in February, to be called Islander Day.The holiday announcement is one of several in the Throne Speech, opening the spring session of the PEI Legislature. Islander Day will fall on the second Monday of each February.
anglais, french: Language neurosis is our identity
April 5, 2008
Every country has its fixations. Where else but in Canada could a straightforward debate about the who and when of French immersion in the third-smallest province send the whole country’s official languages intelligentsia into a fit of doomsdayism? Watching the very real passion with which parents have reacted to New Brunswick’s decision to end early immersion, it is hard not to think of what U.S. sex columnist Dan Savage said recently about his own nation’s debilitating obsession. Not, race. The other one: religion. ”Australia got the convicts. Canada got the French. We got the Puritans.” (Globe Insider subscribers only)
Plan to scrap early immersion faces probe
April 5, 2008
Warning that a generation of would-be bilingual students could be lost, New Brunswick’s ombudsman announced yesterday that he will investigate the provincial government’s decision to scrap its early French immersion program.
Giant insect fossil makes its belated way home
April 5, 2008
A 300-million-year-old fossil of a giant prehistoric insect has finally made its way home to the Joggins Fossil Cliffs after sitting in the chemistry building at Mount Allison University for four decades.
Giant insect fossil makes its belated way home
April 4, 2008
A 300-million-year-old fossil of a giant prehistoric insect has finally made its way home to the Joggins Fossil Cliffs after sitting in the chemistry building at Mount Allison University for four decades.
Husky resumes output
April 4, 2008
Husky Energy Inc. says its White Rose oil field off Newfoundland resumed production yesterday after ice conditions and the weather forecast improved.It shut in production on the SeaRose vessel on Tuesday, and moved the drilling rig GSF Grand Banks to an ice-free zone southwest of the field because of concerns about ice and icebergs.
Plan to scrap early immersion faces probe
April 4, 2008
Warning that a generation of would-be bilingual students could be lost, New Brunswick’s ombudsman announced yesterday that he will investigate the provincial government’s decision to scrap its early French immersion program.
Plan to scrap early immersion faces probe
April 4, 2008
New Brunswick’s ombudsman warns that a generation of would-be bilingual students could be lost
Quebec, Nova Scotia join phone and drive ban
April 3, 2008
Driving and talking on a handheld cellphone no longer mix in Quebec and Nova Scotia, and Manitoba is considering a similar ban amid compelling evidence that distracted motorists are a danger on the road.
Early immersion is a ‘non’
April 3, 2008
New Brunswick is the only province to have a universal program with eight years of mandatory, high-quality bilingual education (Immersion Delayed, Immersion Denied - editorial, March 29). Our changes to bilingual education are based on two realities: If we want 70 per cent of children to be bilingual, we must teach all children, not just the 20 per cent in early immersion. Streaming kids in early grades is bad for literacy, numeracy and bilingualism. Not enough children are learning French. Early immersion teaches too few children and those who struggle with or don’t take immersion wind up in the same class. This is called ‘’streaming” and we’ve paid the price with last-in-Canada literacy scores. (Globe Insider subscribers only)
Quebec, Nova Scotia join phone and drive ban
April 3, 2008
Driving and talking on a handheld cellphone no longer mix in Quebec and Nova Scotia, and Manitoba is considering a similar ban amid compelling evidence that distracted motorists are a danger on the road.
Quebec, Nova Scotia join phone and drive ban
April 3, 2008
Manitoba considering similar ban amid compelling evidence that distracted motorists are a danger on the road
Premier expected to testify, Health Minister says
April 2, 2008
Premier Danny Williams is expected to explain what, if anything, he knew of breast-cancer testing problems in Newfoundland three years ago.Health Minister Ross Wiseman said yesterday he believes Mr. Williams will testify at Newfoundland’s public inquiry into faulty breast-cancer tests.
Second girl pleads guilty to beating teenager
April 2, 2008
Another girl has admitted taking part in a brutal beating and torture of a teenager last fall.The girl, 15, has pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in the attack last September on Kathie-Lee Bennet, 18. A sentencing hearing is set for June.
The Eagles drawn to Moncton’s Magnetic Hill
April 2, 2008
Will be joined for an outdoor concert in Moncton this summer by singers John Fogarty, Sam Roberts and KT Tunstall