Telling Tales out of School

with Nick Martin

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• The editor chides me about Red Loin

  The editor gave me a bigtime chewing-out this morning, accusing me of shoddy journalism and of failing to do my research before writing a story about the U of M engineers' Red Loin magazine.

  View Full Post 03/9/2010 1:08 PM 0

• Get up early Saturday and yell at me

  I was doing three indoor soccer matches last Saturday at Coverall starting at the crack of dawn, and called a girl for kicking the feet out from under another girl. The alleged fouler's coach erupted at me, yelling that the alleged foulee had stepped on the ball.

  View Full Post 03/5/2010 12:39 PM 0

• Babinsky proclaims, and we scribble

  I flashbacked to Coun. Harry Lazarenko as I was listening to WSD trustee Mike Babinsky after the closed-door huddle Monday night......

  View Full Post 03/2/2010 12:02 PM 0

• Kid, get off the couch

  It’s hard for me to believe that it’s 24 years since my father died, and that I’m only two years younger than he was when he suffered a massive heart attack while pushing a little bit of light snow off his driveway.

  View Full Post 02/26/2010 12:34 PM 0

• Get over it — this was settled in 1999

  It seemed like old times at the Winnipeg School Division budget forum Monday night — which isn’t necessarily a good thing.

  View Full Post 02/23/2010 5:36 PM 0

• Lost in the labyrinth of Facebook

  I checked in today on Facebook, and it tells me that I can add Mike Babinsky as a friend.

  View Full Post 02/22/2010 6:15 PM 0

• My polling numbers plummet

  There’s been more turmoil than usual — if I was a character on Fringe, I’d wonder if William Bell was messing around with the doorways between parallel worlds.

  View Full Post 02/10/2010 4:20 PM 0

• U of M's distinguished man of minerals turns 90

  Here's The Buzz for Friday, Feb. 5.

  View Full Post 02/5/2010 12:37 PM 0

• Ranking the high schools

  It’s not news that Manitoba does not compile and make public a school-by-school breakdown of Grade 12 marks in each subject, graduation rates, dropout rates, attendance, and postsecondary participation and success.

  View Full Post 02/3/2010 12:04 PM 0

• Which trustees are out of control?

  Bartley Kives reported earlier this week in our pages that Mayor Sam says some school boards are out of control.

  View Full Post 01/28/2010 11:18 AM 0

• School taxes cash grab 101

  So before I get an email from Oliver Stone about conspiracy theories, let's expand on my story in today's paper and talk about how a school board might use the confusion over reassessment to pull off a cash grab.

  View Full Post 01/27/2010 1:23 PM 0

• I apologize, like, I'm so totally sorry

   

  View Full Post 01/26/2010 10:34 AM 0

• I needed no-fail policy in Grade 7

  I should have failed Grade 7, even though I had an average in the 90s.

  View Full Post 01/20/2010 4:24 PM 0

• My federal vote is up for bids

  Steve, Iggy, Jacko, Elizabeth: here's the deal.

  View Full Post 01/18/2010 2:43 PM 0

• I dropped my WSD season ticket

  I've had people asking me why I no longer spend my Monday evenings going to Winnipeg School Division board meetings.

  View Full Post 01/14/2010 11:46 AM 0

• School volleyball coaches deserve this kind of money

  I was watching the late stages of the bowl game on the telly Thursday night, and nearly choked on my red pepper hummus when they said that the University of Texas football coach is paid $5 million a year and the coach of the University of Alabama $3.9 million.

  View Full Post 01/13/2010 9:52 AM 0

• Lord Stanley and 200 avenue de la Cathédrale

  College universitaire de Saint-Boniface -- educator of choice for Stanley Cup-winning students.

  View Full Post 01/8/2010 10:56 AM 0

• How raises above inflation fuel education costs

  Manitoba's public school teachers are making four or five times the current rate of inflation.

  View Full Post 01/6/2010 1:25 PM 0

• What the trustees spend on themselves

  Hands up if I didn’t get around to getting you miffed in the school-related stories that ran over the holiday period.

  View Full Post 01/4/2010 2:37 PM 0

• Using a water fountain 101

  I was in the Duckworth Centre the other day for an interview, and noticed a spiffy large sign above the drinking fountain in the lobby.

  View Full Post 12/21/2009 3:44 PM 0