User:Thechristiancontender

Please remember not to bite the newcomers. Far from newcomers being a horde of monolithic vandals, trolls, incompetent fools, and spammers, a 2006 essay indicated that newcomers wrote most of Wikipedia's content. That's a lot of content, and these people have taken the time to research and post excellent info which many editors (vandals in my humble opinion), have simply deleted later, because it was not written up to their standards or they felt like the info was not relevant, or they were not interested in it.

Please take the time to re-write instead of deleting another's content contribution. Thankyou and have a great day.

A little about myself

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Founder and Publisher of The Family News

Founder and Publisher of The Family News Dec. 1997 - Oct. 2001

The Family News was a Not-For-Profit newspaper and had a readership of aprox. 80,000.

The Family News had three different editions with each print run and was delivered to 100 private schools in Ontario.

It also was delivered to 1,000 protestant and catholic churches in Ontario. It had 35% advertising content and 65% written articles and photographs, plus a children's section, recipes, and other content.

My duties included: Interviews and article writing (Journalist) On-site Photography (Photographic editor)

I was additionally responsible for the The Family News advertising sales and distribution.

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EH?This user is obsessed with Canadian slang.

When writing many Canadians will start a sentence with As well, in the sense of "in addition to"; this language construction is a Canadianism and unique to Canadian English. As well Canadian, New Zealand, Australian, and British English share idioms like in hospital and at university, although the term "in the hospital" is also commonly heard when referring to a child. In American English, the definite article is mandatory in both cases, This however is not true in Canadian English. In most situations where English speakers outside of the United States use the phrase to university, American English speakers instead use the phrase to college, with no article required.

When speaking, and in written form, Canadian English speakers permit, and often use, a transitive form for some past tense verbs where only an intransitive form is permitted in other dialects of English. Some examples include: finished something, rather than saying "finished with something", done something rather than "done with something", graduated university rather than "graduated from university". As well, where Canadian English shares vocabulary with other English dialects, it tends to share most with British English variations including the Irish English dialect. Many terms are shared with Britain, but not with the majority of American speakers. In some cases British and the American English terms co-exist in Canadian English to various extents. A classic example of this is holiday, often is used interchangeably with vacation and leave. Canadian English distinguishes the three between a trip elsewhere, a general time off from work, and a specific amount of time respectively. In addition, the vocabulary of Canadian English also features words that are seldom (if ever) found elsewhere. An example of this is: Running Shoes to mean any shoe for play or gym use.

As Canada is a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations, Canada shares many items of institutional terminology and professional designations with the countries of the former British Empire. An example is: constable, to designate a police officer of the lowest rank, and the term chartered accountant. The term college (in American English), refers to a post-secondary education in general in the U.S., but in Canada the word college refers to either a post-secondary technical or vocational institution, or to one of the colleges that exists as a federated school with-in a Canadian university. The term college also can refer to a private school of high school level which charges tuition. An example of this is Upper Canada College in Toronto, Ontario, Lower Canada College in Montreal, Quebec, and Saint Andrews College in Aurora, Ontario. Most often, a college is a community college in Canada, and does not refer to a university. An example of this is Centennial College of Applied Arts and Technology in Scarborough, Ontario. The term university is used in Canadian English to refer to a degree granting institution, just as it does in the UK. An example is the University of Toronto (U of T). The term college may also refer to a CEGEP school in the Province of Quebec. In Canada, a college student would denote someone obtaining a diploma in a study, while a university student is the term for someone earning a bachelor's degree or higher. For that reason, going to college does not have the same meaning as going to university.

In Canada the public school, catholic school, and private school chief administrator is generally known as the principal or the headmaster, but the term is not generally used preceding his or her name, i.e. "Principal or Headmaster Smith". The assistant to the principal is not titled as "assistant principal", but rather as the vice-principal or assistant headmaster, although the former is not unknown. This usage is identical to that found in Northern Ireland.

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