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Invest in kindergarten costs

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty plans to move forward with implementing a full-day kindergarten program by 2015, the Globe and Mail reported Oct. 27. The $1.5 billion plan to enrol Ontario’s four- and five-year-olds in full-day schooling comes at a time when Ontario’s projected deficit is sitting at nearly $25 billion.

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Vaccinate before it’s too late

According to a recent poll, 48 per cent of Canadians might refuse to get the H1N1 vaccination, the Globe and Mail reported Oct. 26. An op-ed piece by Juliet Guichon and Ian Mitchell argues Canadians who refuse the vaccine are jeopardizing the public good.

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Punch drunk love

Amongst my friends and housemates, there’s a drunken compulsion that I’m famous for indulging. No, not that.

Previously in Editorials

October 27, 2009

Phone ban strict, but safe

The use of hand-held phones while driving in Ontario is now a thing of the past. A new law came into effect yesterday making it illegal to use a cell phone to talk or text while behind the wheel of a car.

October 27, 2009

Boys’ school misses the mark

Boys who underachieve in the classroom may soon have a school of their own, the Globe and Mail reported Oct. 20. The Toronto District School Board’s new education director, Chris Spence, has proposed the first-ever all-male public elementary school in Ontario.

October 27, 2009

The procrastination bug

It’s Saturday night and I have a midterm and two essays due on Monday, an article due sometime tomorrow and a whole lot of reading to finish. So naturally, I’m working on none of the above.

October 23, 2009

Think reduction, not rank

The Copenhagen summit starting Dec. 7, 2009 is a chance to negotiate a new international treaty addressing climate change, columnist Simon Jackson for CBC News reported Oct. 19. According to Jackson, the Copenhagen treaty is poised to effect more change than did the Kyoto Protocol given the rise in public support for environmental issues in the “new, post-Inconvenient Truth world.”

October 23, 2009

Shrewd move for languages

Queen’s German, Italian and Spanish departments may merge into a new modern languages and linguistics department for the 2010-2011 school year if a vote this winter proceeds in favour. Spanish and Italian currently share a department, while German is separate.