Telling Tales out of School

with Nick Martin

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• As Simon and Garfunkel sang about going to the candidates’ debate

  Yes, you’ve been bereft of news about the Winnipeg and Louis Riel Nov. 26 school board by-elections for more than a week now, and I feel your pain.

  View Full Post 11/15/2011 4:25 PM 0

• Away for a bit, and some education stuff

  I’ll be away for a week or so. Off to Upper Canada to visit child the younger, watch some university volleyball, see my Mighty Maples, bound for Stanley Cup glory, play the Florida Panthers, celebrate a significant birthday, and enjoy our traditional post-volleyball Cajun dinner at Hot Belly Mama’s in Peterborough.

  View Full Post 11/6/2011 8:39 PM 0

• One out, but still on the ballot

  As you saw on our website and in today’s dead trees edition, candidate Evan Thompson has withdrawn from the race for the vacant Ward 1 school board seat in Winnipeg School Division.

  View Full Post 10/31/2011 4:36 PM 0

• Play fair, says candidate

  A month to go, and the byelections are getting snippy. Or Ward 1 of Winnipeg School Division, at least.

  View Full Post 10/28/2011 4:32 PM 0

• School board candidates galore

  There’s an interesting distinction between the two sets of candidates contesting school board by-elections. You’ll find the list here.

  View Full Post 10/19/2011 4:28 PM 0

• Forty years ago, in a newsroom far, far away

  I started working in the daily newspaper business 40 years ago today.

  View Full Post 10/17/2011 1:36 PM 0

• Election fever breaks out

   

  View Full Post 10/14/2011 4:29 PM 0

• You won, get back to work

  I’ve already put in a request to talk to Education Minister Nancy Allan about the NDP government’s plans to implement caps on class size.

  View Full Post 10/5/2011 4:01 PM 0

• Is this OK?

  Is it OK to tout your position on a significant provincial board when endorsing a candidate for provincial office? Especially when you cite the candidate’s abilities to work in the area in which you advise the government?

  View Full Post 10/3/2011 4:47 PM 0

• Gerrard regrets glitch about GPHS invite

  Liberal leader Dr. Jon Gerrard told me this morning that he regrets not taking part in a now-cancelled River Heights riding town hall at Grant Park High School.

  View Full Post 09/29/2011 4:44 PM 0

• Wooing me as a senior-in-training

  Nothing grabs me as a voter these days more than seeing the magic word senior in the party’s promise.

  View Full Post 09/25/2011 10:37 PM 0

• A doctoral grudge

  I’ve blown a chance at a major story, and now my less-than-impeccable source is seeking out other media to shop her story.

  View Full Post 09/20/2011 4:08 PM 0

• A candidate offers me a job

  This election just keeps getting stranger and stranger.

  View Full Post 09/15/2011 4:20 PM 0

• Encountering candidates in unexpected places

  I was leaving my soccer match Saturday afternoon, walking back to my car on the street in behind Glenlawn Collegiate, when someone in a car that had pulled up alongside me started calling my name.

  View Full Post 09/13/2011 3:48 PM 0

• Treating $1.9 billion simplistically

  As impossible as it is to explain Manitoba’s convoluted, complex, confusing, complicated and confounding public education funding formula at a voter’s doorstep, the provincial leaders are trying to flog simplistic funding promises.

  View Full Post 09/6/2011 12:35 PM 0

• Another university, and many soccer rants

  Once again I’m off, returning to work Sept. 6, driving with child the elder to the University of Victoria, where he’s starting law school.

  View Full Post 08/25/2011 4:25 PM 0

• Daniel Mac grad now the prez

  Jim Madder is the latest grad of Daniel Mac to make it big.

  View Full Post 08/22/2011 3:18 PM 0

• Adventures in trusteeland

  You’ve really got to wonder about the future of school boards in Manitoba.

  View Full Post 08/19/2011 3:17 PM 0

• Kids, be healthy in old age

  So today I've made it to 63, the age at which my father dropped dead of a heart attack.

  View Full Post 08/11/2011 3:54 PM 0

• A message from one medium

  The recent big piece I did on the centenary of Marshall McLuhan’s birth drew one of the largest positive email responses I can remember in quite a while.

  View Full Post 08/4/2011 2:57 PM 0