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| School needs more courses on life lessons | Dave Gordon
Wed, 14 September 2011
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As children went back to school, they began learning the 3 Rs - but they'll also learn a fourth R, revenue.
Ontario students will learn about saving, spending and investing money as early as Grade 4, as Queen's Park rolled out a new financial literacy curriculum.
Prompted by growing debt levels among Canadian youth and out-of-control spending habits, the province designed economic lessons that can be worked into any classroom subject, up to Grade 12.
The initial idea gained traction with provincial politicians after former Toronto school trustee and current Toronto Councillor Josh Matlow called for a curriculum in financial basics in the wake of the world economic crisis.
The goal of the new curriculum is to teach children about basics such as budgeting, how to read the fineprint of credit card contracts, how to manage debt, how to avoid debt, and how advertisers target them.
It's evident parents aren't doing well financially - and likely not passing along financial acumen to their kids....
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| A Rabbi's Reputation Smeared | Dave Gordon
Tue, 1 March 2011
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Pointing a finger of blame doesn’t mean the accusation is true. But tell that to Kulanu, a support group for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and queer community.
Last summer the group brought serious charges against Rabbi Mendel Kaplan of Thornhill for alleged “vile” homophobic statements.
In a sermon to his Chabad@Flamingo congregation, the rabbi questioned a newspaper advertisement in which a number of large, mainstream Jewish groups called on Jews to join Kulanu at the Toronto Pride Parade to counter an anti-Israel group, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid.
According to reports, Rabbi Kaplan’s take was that Kulanu and these Jewish groups ought to have used that ad money for better causes and not encouraged them to publicly endorse behaviour frowned upon by the Bible (i.e....
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