It’s become sadly predictable, according to the NDP’s Matt Love. Limited funding means school board cuts are inevitable.
Love says: “This budget will lead to cuts in our classrooms, and the Sask Party is proving once again that they can’t be trusted to invest in education. They say one thing, but do another. It’s time for change in Saskatchewan!”
I don’t agree with everything Thomas Friedman says, but this column provides some depth and context. As he states, in the Middle East, the opposite of autocracy is not always democracy. Further, focussing exclusively on the disintegration of human rights in Iran should not distract us from similar processes in other countries.
For me personally, I will mourn the violence and mourn the suffering, in the lead-up to the war and in the war itself. And I will continue to be saddened that we live in a world where the pain and suffering of the many creates prosperity for some. All across the globe, people behind closed doors are feverishly calculating how this pain and suffering will improve their bottom line.
The great Fintan O’Toole has some wise words on the monarchy and this week’s differing responses to crisis in the UK vs. the US.
“The answer is that even constitutional monarchies developed limits on arbitrary power, chief among them an independent criminal justice system and some kind of parliamentary accountability. The United States, on the other hand, has allowed the application of its laws to be bent to the will of an autocratic president, and the checks its legislature…