The release of ancient carbons into our atmosphere is causing a “planetary destabilization” according to Alanna Mitchell, Canadian author of Sea Sick. Her Halifax presentation on April 3 2012 entitled ‘Carbon and the Oceans: When Oil and Water Mix.’was the second of three in a Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public [...]
Mark Mercer
Should professors make accommodations in their courses for disabled students or others with special needs? Of course they should. Should professors be required to make accommodations? No, they should not. A university that can direct professors’ teaching is a university that does not respect academic freedom, and a university that does not respect [...]
Mark Mercer
Department of Philosophy
Saint Mary’s University
mark.mercer@smu.ca
“Queen’s Bands” is the name of the marching band and associated cheerleaders and cavorters at Queen’s University, in Kingston, Ontario.
The Bands performs at campus activities and local and national events. Queen’s Bands has been noted throughout its long history more for spirit [...]
One of the actions in the proposed academic plan is to create “co-curricular transcripts recognizing extra-curricular activities that contribute to academic development.” Creating such a thing is a bad idea for a whole host of reasons.
One is that extra-curricular activities that contribute to academic development are already recognized on students’ transcripts. Anything that contributes [...]
I’m a little hesitant to post this, as I’m wary of conflating American issues with Canadian — but with that caveat in mind:
Adam Gopnik, this year’s Massey Lecturer, has a good article in this week’s New Yorker on the American prison system, which you can find here.
It’s hard not [...]
That a few teenagers are taking, distributing, and collecting naked pictures of each other is, I suppose, something parents should be a little concerned about (“Teens on notice,” Chronicle Herald, 11 December 2011). That the Cape Breton Regional Police are in any way concerned about it, though, is terrifying.
Recently, the police collected around [...]
