Put Your Money Down: New York Islanders Odds for 2011-12

And they too are dismayed that you think you’d still be a chicken plucker if it weren’t for universal health care. What I did, I did in one generation as well. You seem to be missing something. that my dad was 3rd grade and my mother immigrated as an orphan not even speaking English. One generation and two brothers that did it as well.

I’m being honest and gving you actual numbers and facts and you are still trying to tell me it can’t be done. You could not afford tuition in one school in the states. So, I’ve shown you that community colleges exist to get an education and then you compare Concordia to Harvard.

You say they have never paid a penny for health care, but you tell me it is your higher alcohol taxes, higher cigarette taxes, stamp taxes (non-existent here), 20% more in income tax to pay for health care. It isn’t FREE if you are paying taxes for it. Post tax and health care insurance I net more money even with higher health care costs..

b/c that wasn’t the intent going astray, but i really enjoyed the learning experience. i was thinking, the difference in healthcare costs/insurance would make a great PhD thesis or disseration, re: the impact on cultural and ideological self. so many things, i would imagine it would even impact a couple’s decision on how many children to have…

The opening of the Canadian North was so recent, the second wave of academics literally came after Zaslow, Diubaldo (Concordia), and S. Grant from Trent, and William Morrison – all Zalsow grads – made it to the top and all teach in small universities. Rich actually worked for the federal department of Northern Affairs as a young student when guys like Diamond Jenness originally were sent north by the Canadian government. I was the very first person to view archival documents on residential schools for Inuit and everything filed and written in that time — and to be able to talk regularly with someone who was there a the table for much of the decisions and knew the players was amazing. Rich died two weeks before he was to signoff on my PhD defence. i also worked under Frank Chalk @ Concordia who co-founded the Montreal Institute of Genocide Studies…Frank is an American who graduated from Wisconsian, and is without a doubt one of the world’s leading academics in the field.
By comparison, McGill has a top notch Canadian military historian, but there top academic on the north is R. Quin Duffy, and his book The Road To Nunavut isn’t suitable for teaching b/c it is wrought with mistakes, some obvious, some not so obvious – he even called rich a montreal anthropologist, yet the guy worked down the street from him lol He has residential schools where none existed, and didn’t even mention ones such as Chesterfield Inlet that are now notorious for sex abuse of kids.

our university systems of governance are not perfect, i know that first hand…they enjoy a lot of autonomy and not enough public scrutiny…but they are more regulated in terms of how they are allowed to produce income and what they can charge students…that has led to some level of parity for the most part (kind of like the NHL salary cap), meaning a B.A. in history at any Canadian university is relatively equal. Of course, there will always be individuals who excel above the rest in their area, and of course every institution has its chosen programs it excels in – like Trent’s indigenous studies programs – Trent is a very small university, yet a number of the leading academics in the field either work there or did…John Milloy, David Newhouse to name a few, my former profs who i worked under and got into field with…

Rich Diubaldo is a prime example. in the US, he would have been at Harvard or Yale, if our system was the same, McGill would be made into an Ivy Tower no question…aside from limited admittance to 75-80% grades from highschool, that is all they can do, and in the long run, that doesn’t mean much. Ontario has at least 4 or 5 universities with MD and Law programs on par or better than McGill – but at least half of Canada’s universities are in Ontario.

At hockey games in particular you see the maple leaf sprawled out of large sections of the crowds. I recall being in Montreal during the last referendum and they may have caused the explosion in Canadian flags. I sure wish I had stock in the flag manufacturers.

we both have different first nations laws…they are “nations” within “nations”…

the bloc are clearly socialist, which is why they pretty much merged, or got whipped out by socialist NDP…once separation waned federally, that the Bloc supporters who vote NDP instead of Liberal or Conservative was a very easy prediction.

that is how the raise a lot of money though…i can’t remember off hand what the American students paid at Concordia back 10 years ago when i was there, but i believe it was in the 6 to 8 grand range…if you were born in Quebec, the tuition was so rediculously cheap it was practically free. on the flip side, today the hens have come home to roost. no tuition hikes in ages, profs leaving for higher salaries…this is why i believe McGill butchered their history program…prioritizing money to their bread and butter law and medical programs

Many of my friends kids go community and then private to save two years of tuition. I think it is because professors are overpaid ;).