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Elizabeth May, Leader, Green Party of Canada
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Re Ontario's Professors Are Retiring Later, Study Finds (March 6): Full-time
professors are not a greedy, heartless and unscrupulous bunch, but individuals who,
after more than 30 years of commitment to their discipline and students, care about
their legacy and higher education's future.
In many instances, retirement has become a bargaining tool, with older full-time
faculty refusing to retire until the administration ensures their positions will by
replaced with tenure -track academic jobs for PhD grads.
This is a reality that can hardly be immediately apparent in statistics. Yet, as any
investigative journalist knows, "objective" facts and numbers alone often fail to
provide an accurate picture.
Sandra Parmegiani, associate professor, University of Guelph
APPLES. AND BULLETS
Re Teachers With Guns (letters, March 8): Apart from the fact that the idea is
repulsive, what chance would a teacher armed with a pistol have against an
automatic rifle? A would-be school shooter, knowing that the teacher might be
armed, is likely to make the teacher their first target — dead before the teacher's gun
is out of the drawer or holster.
The solution to the problem of mass shooting is confiscation, and to make the
possession/ownership of automatic weapons a criminal offence.
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