This Week in Alberta: Redford’s First Budget
I’ve spent much of the past two days trying to draft a blog post on Alberta’s 2012 budget. After all, this was not only Allison Redford’s first budget, but a…
February 2012
Favourite Poems LXVII
A poem for a Saturday morning. Just because. To Winter O winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou built thy dark Deep-founded habitation. Shake not…
Leadership 2012 Roundup
News and notes from the last few days as the deadline to sign up looms just a week away in advance of a convention that’s set to far exceed the…
The Job: A Ticket to Poverty
Said the office worker to the poor person “Get a job you bum” I have 3 replied the poor person How many do you have? Increasingly these days a job…
The Taxi Driver and the Book Lovers’ Ball
The Book Lovers’ Ball was fantastic. I met several of my favourite writer friends there and we had a great conversation before dinner. Great conversation continued during dinner at my…
Makkovik SAR Questions #nlpoli
Ground search and rescue is a police responsibility. Police forces in Newfoundland and Labrador report to the provincial justice minister. According to the Fire and Emergency Services website: Emergency Air…
2012 – A New Year, But For Peel Police, The Malfeasance Continues
2011 was not a good year for the Peel police. Racial profiling, harassment of citizens and fabrication of evidence seemed to be the order of the day. The new year…
Faux Conservatives
Some commentators looked at this week’s census numbers and saw blue skies and sunshine for Stephen Harper’s Conservatives. As Jeffrey Simpson notes in today’s Globe and Mail, the term “conservative”…
Saturday At The Movies
Climate deniers, take note: if you work at it, you might be as smart as this toddler. For more info on this toddler and the unique approach to learning his…
Ezra’s Freedom Weekend Still Not Sold Out
Can’t imagine why. Ezra and two nights at the Muskoka Marriott with all of its wonderful facilities.
The Old Spaghettification Swimmin’ Hole
Stephen Newton was in love. From his hiding place, he watched her disrobe and gracefully dive into the old swimming hole. Her alabaster skin shimmered under the water like some…
E-Learning: Générations
(English version) Ces dernières années, j’ai travaillé sur deux grandsconcepts: d’abord, la théorie de l’apprentissage en ligne connectivist, quiconsidère l’apprentissage comme un processus de réseau et, deuxièmement, lemassif cours ouverts…
E-Learning Generations
(version française) In recent years I have been working on two major concepts:first, the connectivist theory of online learning, which views learning as anetwork process; and second, the massive open…
Harper Defunds Mennonite Church Group
Dennis Gruending predicted it in his last outing: CIDA will soon abandon a number of its long-standing development partners among Canadian NGOs, including a number of church-based organizations. Reliable sources…
More not-net-zero reality
In Failing healthcare managers still paid handsomely, I noted that average earnings of the top 10 people at the Fraser Health Authority rose almost $4,500 per month between 2008 and…
Autism leader helps UNB remain at forefront of autism intervention training
The University of New Brunswick has engaged a renowned expert to examine best practices in autism treatment. Dr. David Celiberti is president of the Association for Science and Autism Treatment.…
Small differences emerging
While we await Sunday’s NDP leadership debate from Quebec City – the first fully French event that is going to tax the bilingual capacities of the seven candidates – here’s…
NC dad shoots laptop on YouTube, daughter is doing fine
North Carolina father Tommy Jordan, who works in IT, was not impressed with a FB posting by his 15 year old, and responded with a video which has had over…
S**t Saskatchewanians Say
From Thread Saskatoon