http://www.senatorgrantmitchell.ca Blog Posts from Senator Grant Mitchell en-US Juntos CMS marc.gendron@juntos.ca marc.gendron@juntos.ca Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:55:00 GMT http://www.senatorgrantmitchell.ca/blog/15168_post.aspx http://www.senatorgrantmitchell.ca/blog/15168_post.aspx Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:07:00 GMT http://www.senatorgrantmitchell.ca/blog/15150_post.aspx http://www.senatorgrantmitchell.ca/blog/15150_post.aspx Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:59:00 GMT http://www.senatorgrantmitchell.ca/blog/15123_post.aspx http://www.senatorgrantmitchell.ca/blog/15123_post.aspx Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:57:26 GMT http://www.senatorgrantmitchell.ca/blog/14998_post.aspx http://www.senatorgrantmitchell.ca/blog/14998_post.aspx Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:23:00 GMT http://www.senatorgrantmitchell.ca/blog/14937_post.aspx http://www.senatorgrantmitchell.ca/blog/14937_post.aspx Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:24:00 GMT http://www.senatorgrantmitchell.ca/blog/14938_post.aspx http://www.senatorgrantmitchell.ca/blog/14938_post.aspx Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:14:00 GMT Le 2 novembre 2011, le ministre de l’Énergie de la Norvège a visité Ottawa, en route pour l’Alberta. Lui et ses fonctionnaires ont rencontré les membres du Comité sénatorial de l’énergie et de l’environnement. Il est lui-même impressionnant et les politiques de son pays en matière d’énergie, d’environnement et de « fonds patrimonial » sont uniques et inspirantes. http://www.senatorgrantmitchell.ca/blog/14588_post.aspx http://www.senatorgrantmitchell.ca/blog/14588_post.aspx Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:13:00 GMT J’ai récemment rencontré des représentants de la Fédération canadienne des étudiantes et étudiants. Les trois m’ont beaucoup impressionné. Ils luttent pour diverses questions qu’ils résument dans le titre de leur document intitulé « L'éducation publique pour le bien commun ». http://www.senatorgrantmitchell.ca/blog/14587_post.aspx http://www.senatorgrantmitchell.ca/blog/14587_post.aspx Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:11:00 GMT On November 2, 2011 the Minister of Energy from Norway visited Ottawa on his way to Alberta. He and his officials met with the members of the Senate Energy and Environment Committee. He is a very impressive person in his own right and his country's energy, environmental and "heritage fund" policies are very enlightened and unique. http://www.senatorgrantmitchell.ca/blog/14586_post.aspx http://www.senatorgrantmitchell.ca/blog/14586_post.aspx Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:10:00 GMT I met with representatives of the Canadian Federation of Students recently. There were three of them, each very impressive. They are fighting for a variety of matters which they capture in the title of their booklet, “Public Education for the Public Good”. They have 5 core recommendations: develop a national vision for high quality and affordable post-secondary education; reduce student debt; fund research and graduate studies; fund Aboriginal education; and measure results. They remind us how important a fair and accessible education system is to the strength of our society. It dawns on me that there might be some good reason why young people are not particularly interested in politics. Perhaps they see a system based on the baby-boomers’ interests that is dumping fiscal and climate change disaster on them; making it increasingly difficult for them to afford a post-secondary education; putting them in undergraduate classes with 500 students if they can find the money; and making it impossible to find career track jobs once they graduate. And, not even allowing them to vote on-line. Why would they be engaged with politics? http://www.senatorgrantmitchell.ca/blog/14585_post.aspx http://www.senatorgrantmitchell.ca/blog/14585_post.aspx