Verda Petry News Today

We ask voters and citizens — urban, rural, northern and indigenous — to ask candidates for a sustainable wetland policy. — Tom McDougall.

Smaller classes with specialized teachers are needed, but the government is refusing to negotiate to fund specialists, writes Verda Petry.

"I remember a time when school boards generated their own funds by setting a local mill rate based on their needs," writes Pamela LaBelle.

You might have had your own Lawrence Bernard Switzer in your our life. If you have one, this is a great place to honour their memory.

Residents will be herded like sheep to an already overcrowded pen for the rest of their life. — Karl Strahm on Lutheran Cares closure.

"Both of these degrees are heavily depended on the person being accepted into police training," writes Cpl. James Deibert.

"While you can learn law, statutes and other academics in a classroom, policing requires actual street experience," writes Greg Shields.

"It is time for what is legal in the housing market to match what is moral," writes Eric Proctor on ending housing investment speculation.

Private schools are unnecessary. If public schools are adequately funded, all exceptional needs can be accommodated, writes Verda Petry.

Article content A program for free and universal pre-school care and learning is absolutely the most important national initiative since Medicare. The oped entitled Federal Daycare Plan will not live up to hype (April 30) written by Janice MacKinnon and Jack Mintz is misguided. They say the program can’t meet diverse needs of the Canadian workforce. Of course not. Childcare is not intended to serve the workforce and the economy; it is intended to serve children. The program is about giving th...