Doubling Trades Oppurtunites, The Province, Aug 17, 2007
The Industry Training Authority intends to double the number of aboriginal apprentices entering the trades by 2010.
The ITA, which manages B.C.'s apprenticeship programs for the provincial government, said it will work with aboriginal groups to develop a new strategy aimed at bringing more young aboriginal workers into the trades to meet the province's increasing demand for skilled labour.........
It sounds like a step in the right direction to improve the labour pool in British Columbia and increase the skillset of its population, but access and barriers to education for aboriginals should be looked at for every post secondary program, not just the trades.
Friday, August 17, 2007
Marhaba! Namaste! Bonjour!
Welcome to what I hope to be a resource of entertainment, information, news and debate of post secondary issues at the student level on the internet. This content discussed will mainly deal with Canadian issues and speficially those of Lower Mainland British Columbia. I am well aware of the www.studentunion.ca blog, which covers issues to the same nature, but here will be looked at in a much different, student impact perspective with my opinions being slightly more stated.
About myself, my name is Zeirash Anravi, a student in a Lower Mainland British Columbia university working towards a multi-disciplinary degree in political science, english, modern languages, economics and the sciences.
This blog will run the spectrum of what interests me in what is happening in post secondary issues and may include, from time to time, include some international news of interest to the readership.
For the first offering to the readership, I'll begin with some humour to get things started. This is of course courtesy of Titus Gregory at www.studentunion.ca.
Here is what CUP (Canadian University Press) seems to think of their student governments that they are mandated to report on.
WHEREAS once upon a time, CUP had an awesome idea of building a Death Star, and decided to put money toward making it happen, and
WHEREAS student unions are evil and should be eliminated from the galaxy (toasted like flaming marshmallows), and
WHEREAS we have serious engineers who support the idea and are willing to work pro bono on this project, and
WHEREAS late during plenary at CUP 66, some people put forward a motion to loot the Death Star Fund in order to build a houseboat, and
WHEREAS a houseboat seems silly and unrealistic, like much of what comes out of the Gateway, and
WHEREAS a Death Star would still totally rock!
BIRT CUP change the houseboat fund back into the Death Star Fund, and
BIFRT the fund continue to be contributed to at the rate of $π ($3.14) per year, until such time that funding is sufficient to research, design and build a full-scale Death Star to be used as a negotiating tool for CUP members with student associations and university administrations, and
BIFRT CASA and CFS are nerdy geeks, and
BIFRT the Death Star also be used to acquire revenge on student associations or other unpleasant groups of individuals who annoy anyone in CUP, for any reason, and
BIFRT the Death Star be used to extort money from large multinational corporations, where such activity is not against the law, and
BIFRT we acknowledge that the Death Star is very important to many members of CUP, and therefore not try to replace it with any other vessel or vehicle of destruction.
Titus also recently reported on the unofficial student reponse to the motion which read
Whereas a CUP resolution was passed such that the Death Star fund not be otherwise appropriated; and
Whereas no other vessel or vehicle is sufficiently evil or potentially, advantageously destructive; and
Whereas construction has begun in a secret facility hidden in a galaxy far, far away; and
Whereas a construction job of that magnitude would require a helluva lot more manpower than the Imperial army had to offer – I’ll bet there are independent contractors working on that thing: plumbers, aluminum siders, roofers…!; therefore
Be it resolved that independent contractors hired by the CUP be offered benefit packages accordant with the hazardous working conditions posed; and
Be it further resolved that in the interest of an egalitarian destructive weapons base, funding be increased for the Death Star Gay Bar; and
Be it further resolved that in the case that the pesky Federation discovers the weakness of the yet incomplete Death Star, i.e. typos on Joey Coleman’s blog, that the independent contractors be evacuated promptly; and
Be it further resolved that minacious posturing by the Federation be tantamount to a declaration of boredom, and that, foreseeing spurious debate upon the cryptic nature of such ridiculous resolutions
Be it further resolved that we acknowledge on behalf of the CFS that a safely completed Death Star is disastrous, as Darth Vader would never vote NDP, and therefore must be barraged at all costs with Mark Hamill’s wooden acting and reactionary plenary oversight
All this thought and humour dedicated into this is all fine and good, but it still begs the question, why can't the rest of motions that student leaders put forward sound this good.
-Z. A.
About myself, my name is Zeirash Anravi, a student in a Lower Mainland British Columbia university working towards a multi-disciplinary degree in political science, english, modern languages, economics and the sciences.
This blog will run the spectrum of what interests me in what is happening in post secondary issues and may include, from time to time, include some international news of interest to the readership.
For the first offering to the readership, I'll begin with some humour to get things started. This is of course courtesy of Titus Gregory at www.studentunion.ca.
Here is what CUP (Canadian University Press) seems to think of their student governments that they are mandated to report on.
WHEREAS once upon a time, CUP had an awesome idea of building a Death Star, and decided to put money toward making it happen, and
WHEREAS student unions are evil and should be eliminated from the galaxy (toasted like flaming marshmallows), and
WHEREAS we have serious engineers who support the idea and are willing to work pro bono on this project, and
WHEREAS late during plenary at CUP 66, some people put forward a motion to loot the Death Star Fund in order to build a houseboat, and
WHEREAS a houseboat seems silly and unrealistic, like much of what comes out of the Gateway, and
WHEREAS a Death Star would still totally rock!
BIRT CUP change the houseboat fund back into the Death Star Fund, and
BIFRT the fund continue to be contributed to at the rate of $π ($3.14) per year, until such time that funding is sufficient to research, design and build a full-scale Death Star to be used as a negotiating tool for CUP members with student associations and university administrations, and
BIFRT CASA and CFS are nerdy geeks, and
BIFRT the Death Star also be used to acquire revenge on student associations or other unpleasant groups of individuals who annoy anyone in CUP, for any reason, and
BIFRT the Death Star be used to extort money from large multinational corporations, where such activity is not against the law, and
BIFRT we acknowledge that the Death Star is very important to many members of CUP, and therefore not try to replace it with any other vessel or vehicle of destruction.
Titus also recently reported on the unofficial student reponse to the motion which read
Whereas a CUP resolution was passed such that the Death Star fund not be otherwise appropriated; and
Whereas no other vessel or vehicle is sufficiently evil or potentially, advantageously destructive; and
Whereas construction has begun in a secret facility hidden in a galaxy far, far away; and
Whereas a construction job of that magnitude would require a helluva lot more manpower than the Imperial army had to offer – I’ll bet there are independent contractors working on that thing: plumbers, aluminum siders, roofers…!; therefore
Be it resolved that independent contractors hired by the CUP be offered benefit packages accordant with the hazardous working conditions posed; and
Be it further resolved that in the interest of an egalitarian destructive weapons base, funding be increased for the Death Star Gay Bar; and
Be it further resolved that in the case that the pesky Federation discovers the weakness of the yet incomplete Death Star, i.e. typos on Joey Coleman’s blog, that the independent contractors be evacuated promptly; and
Be it further resolved that minacious posturing by the Federation be tantamount to a declaration of boredom, and that, foreseeing spurious debate upon the cryptic nature of such ridiculous resolutions
Be it further resolved that we acknowledge on behalf of the CFS that a safely completed Death Star is disastrous, as Darth Vader would never vote NDP, and therefore must be barraged at all costs with Mark Hamill’s wooden acting and reactionary plenary oversight
All this thought and humour dedicated into this is all fine and good, but it still begs the question, why can't the rest of motions that student leaders put forward sound this good.
-Z. A.
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