Bryan

It's not. It's an accurate examination of your current ability to converse honestly on this subject. You made up something I didn't say, and argued against that.

I haven't changed my stance at all. You simply lack reading comprehension, and have a propensity for creating straw men.

It is. OGFT has been told and shown why and how his interpretation of the funding is not correct, yet he continues to make the same false allegations.

I notice that you are using old data on both counts. Manitoba is DEAD LAST. BC does better than MB, but they are not first. http://cmec.ca/Publications/Lists/Publications/Attachments/337/PCAP-2013-Public-Report-EN.pdf

I never said all tests have to be written. Your ability to assess anything is lacking. Driving tests have both a written and a practical component. BOTH are necessary to prove you actually CAN drive, rather than that you just read about it.

Yes, you should.

It's 3% in addition to the previous 6%. The provinces will get progressively MORE money each year.

We get it that you're peddling something that is not true. You should stop doing that.

Not one dime is being taken away. More is being added. All of the previous increases remain, plus an additional 3% per year.

By "gut" healthcare, you mean continuing to expand on the largest increases the program has ever had?

It's true. Canadians have seen the damage NDP governments have done at the provincial level, and are not ready to have that extended to the national level.

Dead last in the country in math, science, and reading: http://globalnews.ca/news/1602169/manitoba-students-perform-worst-in-canada-in-science-reading-math/ It's been a steady decline since the NDP came to power: http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/features/education-rankings/

I stay involved so that people like you don't ruin their education. There are some very good teachers, but the overall (NDP) education policy is leaving our kids behind. Manitoba students have the worst outcomes in the country because of it. If you want your kids to excell (and mine do), you have to intervene on a regular basis.

I have two kids, I see it everyday.

And that's an EKOS poll too. Their polls generally over-report left of center support (federally and provincially).

Not true. Public education tries to beat the critical thinking skills out of kids as much as possible. What they want is to indoctrinate kids into left-wing ideologies, and to buy into ridiculous concepts that no reasonable person would accept if they actually were thinking critically.

Yep. The best teachers I ever had were ones who gave me the actual course outline right from the beginning, told me what material to read, then essentially went away until test time. Those are the courses I did the best in, and the ones where I still know the material today. My best marks by far in university were in the courses that I almost never went to class.

If you can't pass the test, all of the time you put in was wasted. Giving people credit for just showing up tells you nothing about how well they know the material, how well they can express the concepts, how well they can solve the problems. If you want to raise a generation of losers who cannot cope with the real world, taking away tests would be the best way to accomplish that.

It's already policy in many places, including in the public sector. Any strong smell is grounds for discipline. If you stink, you go home.

She also did not beat (or even compete against) "all the men", just one. That one man who got a higher scores in all three rounds of the men's championship. Pangos' score one-on-one against Brown was his lowest of the competition. Brown is very, very good. But it does no one any good to exaggerate her achievements to make it appear that she did more than she really did. What she actually has accomplished is remarkable enough on its own.

I know I shouldn't, but I feel bad for Smith. She took some really bad advice from an elder statesman of the conservative movement who should have known better. The problem for Wildrose when it comes to forgiving Danielle, is they can't really do that without villainizing Preston Manning (unless he also admits his mistake an apologizes).

Sure they can, if their numbers increase to the point that they are no longer a minority.

Maybe we need a combined "conspiracies" and "gender issues" sub-forum. Both types of topics seem to end up being discussed in the same manner.

Your post is dump of someone else's entire paper. It's lazy. Pick something specific and actually start the discussion yourself

Absolutely not. The ratio tells us nothing about who has actually applied for the jobs or why they were hired. For instance, the hiring ratio might be 4-1, but if the application ratio is 6-1, then women are actually OVER represented in that hypothetical workplace. Context is everything. If they are hired specifically for their gender, by definition that is exactly what it is. Even if the gender balance really was out of whack for purely discriminatory reasons, any attempt to artificially correct that balance makes you as bad (if not worse) than the one who created the imbalance in the first place. An egalitarian correction would take a fair amount of time, and might actually never happen. You simply stop discriminating, and hire the best person for the job. If the best people are women, you'll have more on the job. If they aren't, you won't. There's no such thing. No two people have exactly the same experiences, education, interests, aptitudes, etc. There is always a way to rank applicants on quantifiable merit with respect to the specific job they are applying for.