Telling Tales out of School

with Nick Martin

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• I struck out on out count

  It's often the positive stories that get me in trouble, not the negative ones.

  View Full Post 03/25/2011 12:27 PM 0

• Never seen together?

  Like Clark Kent and Superman, have Jamie Wilson and Kevin Chief ever been seen together?

  View Full Post 03/21/2011 4:19 PM 0

• Trustees face bargaining decision

  The big story at the Manitoba School Boards Association convention this Thursday through Saturday will be whether a majority of trustees finally wants some form of province-wide bargaining.

  View Full Post 03/15/2011 3:07 PM 0

• Leisure Guide woes, and other whining

  Sam, I’m frustrated.

  View Full Post 03/14/2011 2:38 PM 0

• Province wins, the budgets are boring

  Well, that was certainly an exciting and controversy-filled school board budget process, wasn’t it?

  View Full Post 03/10/2011 4:20 PM 0

• Back in my cubicle

  I’m back, and working up stories for you on the U of W labour situation and the budgets that school boards must set by next Tuesday.

  View Full Post 03/7/2011 4:12 PM 0

• Two weeks without winter, and education stuff

  I’ll be away for a couple of weeks on a winter vacation, one of the life changes we get to enjoy that goes with both kids now being adults.

  View Full Post 02/16/2011 4:45 PM 0

• Will the soccer theory work in practice?

  Just a few thoughts about the WYSA task force that’s looking at proposals to put practice and skills development ahead of competition for soccer players 12 and under, which you can read about here.

  View Full Post 02/14/2011 4:43 PM 0

• Teachers eager to go to prison

  It's a while since I've had readers requesting more information on a story, as I've been getting on this week's piece on hiring teachers in the federal prison system.

  View Full Post 02/4/2011 1:24 PM 0

• But what would Hugh do?

  We got a sneak peek at the Tories’ election platform on education today.

  View Full Post 01/27/2011 5:28 PM 0

• Stereotyping your own kids

  I hear some pretty weird stuff at soccer games, but Saturday...

  View Full Post 01/24/2011 4:54 PM 0

• Gerrard’s spin doctor blows smoke

  I’m sitting here absolutely dumbfounded and trying to figure out just how incredibly stupid that the staff of Liberal leader Dr. Jon Gerrard thinks I am.

  View Full Post 01/20/2011 4:52 PM 0

• Religion in my public schools

  I’m told by people who grew up here that mandatory school religious exercises in Manitoba meant that the principal used to read The Lord’s Prayer to students each morning.

  View Full Post 01/18/2011 5:26 PM 0

• Silence from the north

  The University College of the North has decided the best way to handle its decision to show president Denise Henning the door is to pull up the drawbridge, hunker down behind the castle walls, and not talk to anyone.

  View Full Post 01/13/2011 2:45 PM 0

• Sphinx gets to see Babinsky

  Winnipeg School Division trustee Mike Babinsky is off to Egypt next week, where he plans to scout out the Egyptian school system.

  View Full Post 01/5/2011 4:20 PM 0

• Bring a shovel to campus

  It was weird being on the U of M campus on Sunday — ghost town doesn’t begin to describe it.

  View Full Post 01/3/2011 4:10 PM 0

• We become Couch Surfing hosts

  I’ll be off with my family over Yule until Jan. 3 — do try to cope.

  View Full Post 12/24/2010 7:49 AM 0

• The web can haunt you

  LOL, dude, u still sayin that what u put on Facebook now won’t ever come back to bite u?

  View Full Post 12/17/2010 3:59 PM 0

• Education cuts in New Brunswick

  As tough as Manitoba’s upcoming school board budgets will be, it’s a whole lot tougher in New Brunswick.

  View Full Post 12/15/2010 4:13 PM 0

• Give Hugh an assist on that play

  As unbelievable as it may seem, not every word I write ends up in the paper — sometimes stories are cut down by editors.

  View Full Post 12/13/2010 4:33 PM 0