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Pageant Cancellation Means My Hollies Are a Little Less Jolly
By Jason Menard My hollies are a little less jolly today. Earlier we found out that, as a result of multiple school closures caused by Snowmageddon, Son of Snowmageddon, and Hey?-Isn’t-This...
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Whitewashed Huck Finn a Lost Opportunity to Learn
By Jason Menard, You all know how the road to Hell is paved, right? Well, a report in Publishers Weekly suggests that a pair of scholars is editing the book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to remove...
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Clothed-Minded Parents Wrongfully Fearful of Sexuality
By Jason Menard How am I not gay? Seriously. I mean, I’ve dressed up as a woman TWICE in my life: once in my mid-20s on Hallowe’en and once, way back when I was 17, and we went to a screening of The...
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Grammar’s Greatest Protectors Actually Doing Most Damage to Language
By Jason Menard Today is National Grammar Day and while there appears to be increasingly little to celebrate if you survey the linguistic landscape, perhaps it’s time to reassess where the actual blame...
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Pride Prom Need Shows Most Students Have Precious Little for Which to be Proud
By Jason Menard Tonight, students from across the city of London will gather together to celebrate the end of their high school years and look forward to the future. And let me be amongst the first to...
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St. Thomas Aquinas Teachers’ Petition Is a Familiar Issue
By Jason Menard, In trying to hush the teachers of St. Thomas Aquinas, the London District Catholic School Board may have inadvertently drawing much-needed attention to a long-running story....
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Blackface a Black Mark on Montreal
By Jason Menard The world’s greatest city just got one heck of a black eye thanks to a bunch of allegedly smart kids parading around in blackface for the world to see. The idea that a bunch of white...
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Gay-Straight Issue Reinforces Fact It’s Time to Stop Funding Catholic Schools
By Jason Menard, The Catholic school system’s decision to get all up in arms over the naming of a mandated club may finally cause people from all walks of life to wonder why (in the name of God) are we...
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Teachers’ Union Must Remember Our Children Aren’t Bargaining Chips
By Jason Menard My daughter is not a bargaining chip. I admire teachers. I think they have one of the toughest, most-thankless jobs in the world. I think that most of them are good people, trying to do...
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Singular Focus Leads Only to Multiple Problems
By Jason Menard, I opened the paper today and I was amazed at what I read. It just seemed all so familiar. A city, reeling from mayoral scandals and political impropriety, is concerned about how it’s...
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