Ottawa East - Editorials http://www.emcottawaeast.ca Ottawa East en-us Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -04:00 http://www.emcottawaeast.ca/20100729/editorials/Get+outside+this+summer Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -04:00 Get outside this summer EMC Editorial - We fondly remember the days of summer holidays, months away from school spent outdoors. We rode bicycles, caught frogs, and read comic books under the sun.

Today's youth tend to have other ideas of how to spend their summer break, and much of that includes staying indoors with computer of video games, movies and other ...

]]> http://www.emcottawaeast.ca/20100729/editorials/Earthquake+advice+reaction+off-base%3a+reader Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -04:00 Earthquake advice reaction off-base: reader Dear Editor,

I have never felt particularly compelled to send letters about the editorial page for any particular reason. People have their own opinions and one generally has to agree to disagree.

However in the case of the letter from Craig Garcia, I feel I would be remiss if his letter had no rebuttal and people took his advice about Doug ...

]]> http://www.emcottawaeast.ca/20100729/editorials/Census+change+bad+news+for+everyone Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -04:00 Census change bad news for everyone EMC Editorial - Well, on the bright side, I might not have to take that university statistics class anymore. Who needs stats now that our government has made data collection virtually meaningless by scraping the mandatory census long form?

I can't begin to think how the 'brilliant' idea came about to scrap a piece of paper that collects data ...

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