Does your child wanna go to MacDonald's Fun Meal High? Or perhaps Walmart's Smart Price Middle School? What kind of thinking is taking place in Ottawa these days? Public educational institutions should not be turned into gigantic commercial billboards for the sake of raising funds. Come on folks in Ottawa-Carleton, come up with something more sensible and realistic. Creativity is one thing, but this kind of thinking is just plain crass.

Oops... A hole in the Canadian socialist strategy? This shows that even with free health care in Canada, health care dollars are still shorting something else, namely schools. In the U.S. they tend to blame the school deficit problems on the massive amounts we spend on wars. What's Canada's reason?