This is an article written by Sumaira. Cell phones. Walking along the halls of my high school, all I see are faces hidden behind these electronic devices, fingers and thumbs madly clicking away. To someone who has long been denied access to such a consuming technological marvel as the modern cell phone has evolved to [...Read more...]
INTRODUCTION (This is Episode 2 of Better Know A Liberal Failure. Episode 1 was “Why Sumaira is Full of Fail“) Nalanda (pronounced “fay – uhl”) is a former member of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. She dropped out of the programme after the first month because she was unable to deal with the stress of [...Read more...]
INTRODUCTION Sumaira is a Grade 12 International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme drop-out at Campbell. At school, her name is synonymous with fail because of her inability to avoid fail. She is also the only Justin Bieber fan in the entire school, which increases her capacity for fail. Evidently, she is full of fail. As President Franklin [...Read more...]
In 2009, we were asked by the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission (and Keith Walker of the University of Saskatchewan) to draft an apologetics/essay piece on the state of citizenship education in Saskatchewan schools and methods to improve civics education in schools so that we can build better citizens. Judge Arnot, commissioner of the Commission, was [...Read more...]