Did you also watch Téléfrancais in school?
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    People have uploaded all the episodes to YouTube now.

    It’s just not the same though. The true experience is watching it on a TV/VCR on a cart that the teacher wheeled in.

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  • Stubbornly high US inflation grew stronger than expected in March , vaulting to a 3.5% increase from last year
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    “High corporate profits are a main driver of ongoing inflation, and companies continue to keep prices high even as their inflationary costs drop.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/19/us-inflation-caused-by-corporate-profits

    It’s a misnomer to call this “inflation” — it’s corporate collusion-driven price gouging.

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  • Wyrmspan - First Impressions
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    Have only played two players so far. Even then, there was a lot of downtime, especially when you get to the third and fourth rounds.

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  • It’s a fun, more complex, dragon-themed game built on the foundations of Wingspan — familiar, but very different. It’s a lot of fun seeing the victory point-generating system you’ve built kick into gear, though once you start chaining things together turns can take forever. This, unfortunately, kind of sucks for the non-active player(s), as there’s nothing to do but sit and wait between turns. Playing this game with four players must take forever. More info about Wyrmspan: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/410201/wyrmspan

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    www.thetrillium.ca

    From the article: “It’s normal for government employees to receive severance if they’re fired. But Amato and Truesdell got payouts from the government despite quitting, making their cases unusual, according to three sources who've worked, or work, in ministers' offices, including one who shared a copy of their own contract.”

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    Tell me your government is clueless about students and schools without actually telling me
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    A bunch of school boards in Ontario have launched lawsuits against TikTok, Snapchat, and Meta, alleging the way the social media platforms are designed is harming children and disrupting schools.

    Ford disagrees with the lawsuits, but also believes that his ban on cellphones in schools in 2019 was effective. This demonstrates yet again that he and his government are clueless when it comes to education in this province.

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  • From this paywalled article in The Trillium: https://www.thetrillium.ca/insider-news/education-and-training/i-disagree-with-them-ford-says-of-school-boards-suing-social-media-companies-8524267

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    Ask your MPP to #FundTVOLikeItMatters
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    The Ford government is obsessed with turning TVO into a profit-focused, online education platform, so they can replace real, in-person learning with online learning in Ontario classrooms — to continue cuts to education spending — but then to also sell the education modules they are creating in the US market and abroad.

    That’s why the business objectives outlined in a letter from earlier this year from Education Minister Stephen Lecce (TVO is under the Ministry of Education), makes zero mention of journalism.

    The Ford government intends to kill TVO’s journalism so it can double down on online learning in Ontario classrooms and other profit-making schemes.

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  • Want to ease Canada’s housing crisis? Let’s start by being responsible about international student visas
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    This episode of Wag the Doug provides decent background about how the Ford government’s legislative changes and underfunding of public colleges led them to partner with private institutes to juice the number of foreign students for more cash.

    https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/56-students-in-strip-malls/

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  • Want to ease Canada’s housing crisis? Let’s start by being responsible about international student visas
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    1. Governments need to get back to investing in our publicly funded universities and colleges. Colleges and universities are broke from government underfunding and are turning to foreign students to fill the gap.

    2. Provinces (especially the Ford government in Ontario) changed the laws, letting private colleges (and private satellite colleges tied to public colleges) run amok, scamming foreign students and benefiting the companies that want to turn our education system into a cash cow.

    We should have a robust public education system that is attracting foreign students and providing them with the same quality of education available to domestic students. The players that look at our education system and see $$$ signs need to go.

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