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Is College Now the Ultimate Crapshoot?

David Frum | Posted 01.20.2012 | Canada
Read More: University Applications, American Universities, University Costs, Harvard, Canadian Universities, College Application, University Admissions, Canada News
David Frum

If and when a Canadian decides to go to university, they just... go. For student and parent alike, the process is straightforward, inexpensive and seemingly non-traumatic. Or maybe that's just the grass-is-greener perspective of a parent in the throes of the American college-application maelstrom.

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When Community Service Is Merely Self-Serving

Barbara Frum | Posted 11.21.2011 | Canada
Read More: Resume, Community Service, Unemployment, Poverty, Kenya, Volunteering, Africa, Self-Serving, College Application, Selfish, Canada News
Barbara Frum

Why are student volunteers in Africa being tasked to do physically exhausting and challenging labour when there really wasn't a purpose to it -- except as some kind of "hardship lesson" for "spoiled youth?" I also began to wonder if we weren't taking work away from locals.

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