It seems a letter writer has found the solution to Quebec’s post-secondary education funding issue: Students are buying too many iced cappuccinos and should be spending it on increased tuition:

Here are a few suggestions: Students – or parents footing the bill – can rent one fewer video a week, go to one fewer movie, buy one fewer latte or iced cappuccino.

And here I was thinking that these students are buying 99-cent pizzas because their maxed-out credit cards won’t allow them any money to live on, and they still owe their four roommates three months back-rent.

How silly of me.

Meanwhile, Henry Aubin points out that Quebec’s adult workforce is the laziest in Canada, with shorter work hours, more sick days, less productivity and more early retirement:

They’ve simply absorbed a ethos that we, their elders, have unintentionally taught them by example. Many of us in older generations have established a culture of entitlement, a sense that everything is due us.

Maybe they’re the ones who should be spending less time sipping lattes and more time on the job?

Yes she is.

But The Gazette’s Liz Thompson has a piece in today’s paper about so-called “lost” Canadians who are now realizing they were never Canadian citizens for bureaucratic reasons. Marlene Jennings is safe, but apparently was worried for quite a while about it.

This concerns me somewhat. Does Parliament not check that MPs are Canadian citizens before allowing them to take office?

Also today: Gazette freelancer (and Habs Inside/Out Puckcast host John MacFarlane lectures educates us about the politics of food, and Part 3 (subscriber-locked) of my supermarket shopper series.

And on Page A6, a far-too-large story on a CanWest spelling bee is surrounded by stories on shootings, stabbings, home invasions and drunk driving.