5pm Hour – scratch out those zeroes

Posted Jun 5, 2012 11:18:46 AM.

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Green Party leader Elizabeth May talks about her Point of Order against Bill c38 – the omnibus budget bill. The Herald’s stephen cooke checks in on cheap night at the movies. A physics teacher in Edmonton expects to lose his job after he refused to retract a zero mark for uncompleted assignments. Gary Carson, a former teacher in Halifax says ‘no fails’ is the norm in our school systems. SMU political science professor John Measor checks in on Syria.

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