Monday Apr. 28, 2014 – 10am
Posted Apr 28, 2014 02:44:43 PM.
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10:00- Do you think elementary students should have to do school shooting drills?
The largest school board in Montreal is running elementary students through school-shooting drills in which the children hide in classrooms and display distress signs in windows. Several parents told media that the intense exercises, which simulate an attack by a gunman, are traumatizing their kids. The shooting deaths of 20 students in Newtown, Conn., in 2012 prompted some Canadian schools to tighten security measures. Simulations had already been common in Quebec following the 2006 Dawson College shooting rampage.
10:30- What should Harper do now? Is abolishing the Senate still the way to go?
Andy Radia, Politics Reporter for Yahoo.ca
The Supreme Court of Canada offered a historic opinion to the Harper government’s reference about what it would take to reform or abolish the Senate. It’s unanimous-they can’t go it alone. In its decision released on Friday, the eight justices agreed that the government requires the support of at least seven provinces, representing 50 per cent of the population, to impose term limits on senators or to create an electoral process. To abolish the Senate, the Court says, all 10 provinces must unanimously agree.
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