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I would really like to see students — and faculty — and the general population fight for free and full access to public higher education in Canada.
Maybe what is happening in Europe will inspire people here? Maybe it already is?
The austerity has gone on for my entire 45 year student and work career in education. When will it end?
When will it be ended?
#Education #CanPoli #CdnPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-comments-osap-changes-student-protests-9.7415127
@RickOnTheLake @chris didn’t Ford’s chemistry teacher teach him how to cook thé perfect batch of cocaine?
Oh wait! Different TV show 🤪
@jfmezei @RickOnTheLake Doug Ford’s stem education…
I might as well include in a reply here my response/rant to Doug’s infantilizing of adults who are gaining an education that I shared in a subsequent post.
Who’s naive in this equation exactly, Doug?
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Several years ago, Margret Atwood told Doug Ford should he continue down the same path, to beware peasants pitchforks and torches
@chris Ford himself is a college dropout, so doesn't really value education.
But nice rant. :)
Ford quit dealing when he was 22 so I'm sure his time in high school wasn't spent in a library
@TrueNorthSpice @chris law and order for everybody except DF and his siblings.
@TrueNorthSpice @roland @chris Premier Ford was *not* a dealer. He may have initially started as one, but it was short-lived! The bulk of his time was spent as the guy your dealer’s supplier went to for product! The man had a SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS involving imports! See? Education isn’t required to be a leader in your industry!
@TrueNorthSpice @chris dominant hegemony folks like DF and DT can get away with anything. An indigenous, black, brown, etc person who did 1 or more of the things DF and DT did, would be in jail or at least not in politics.
@chris dodgy ford has such a great educational background- his lackeys were the ones who missed those who were abusing the system. But nope he’s not accountable.
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Fuck #DougHoffa
that's the toot.
@chris remember the 2012 protest in Quebec. Rest of Canada "why do you protest you have the lowest tuition?" Quebec: "Why do you think we have the lowest tuition?"
@chris the problem is that the Canadian middle class don't want to pay enough taxes for that. Its our Scots heritage!
@bookandswordblog also… doesn’t Scotland have free post-sec tuition? ;)
@bookandswordblog screw the Scots heritage at this point… (and that probably hasn’t been the majority of Canadians for a minute or two now honestly :)…)
@chris I was reading history of my college recently, and it's been underfunded most of its 50+ years. The first president resigned in protest over cutbacks after a year. We aren't underwater basket weaving either; basically technical school with token hint of liberal arts.
As a survivor of early 2000s BC post-secondary "mergers", I'm nervous.
@Canuckduff ya. very precarious time
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Ford treating education as something you should be grateful for vs. something every Canadian should be entitled to is telling.
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Why should Ford care one whit about education? It never did anything for him.