The forests in Latvia are dense with thick undergrowth and trees reaching high into the sky. The tree trunks are tinted orange and darken as they grow taller. Latvians park along the roads and begin to walk throughout the area as they search for wild […]
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Homeschooling
Homeschooled students tend to do better than their public school counterparts when it comes to standardized test taking. According to one study published in the Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science compared with public school children, homeschooled children tended to be ahead, with a half-grade advantage […]
‘ASL is a true language’; local deaf advocate calls for changes to Bill C-81
Canada’s first accessibility bill is missing a key aspect, say disability advocates, by not including American Sign Language (ASL) as an official Canadian language. Deaf persons locally and nationally are calling for the official recognition of ASL and Quebec’s Langue des signes québécoise, the two […]
Farmer trades Canada for Paraguay in post-World War Mennonite migration
Leaving his life behind in southern Manitoba to move to Paraguay was not what Dan Giesbrecht had in mind at age 15, but when his father decided the family was moving, he had to go too. It was 1948. The Second World War was over […]
Trudeau Town Hall brings people of all opinions
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced questions about everything from pipelines, Indigenous rights, construction workers in rural areas, international student tuition rates, persons with disabilities, to the carbon tax at the town hall held at the University of Regina on January 20, 2019. A diverse crowd […]