In this presentation Stephen Downes addresses the question of how massive open online courses (MOOCs) will impact the future of distance education. The presentation considers in some detail the nature…
Ontario (Attorney General) v. Rothmans Inc., 2013 ONCA 353 deals with the jurisdiction of Ontario’s courts. In deciding that issue the Court considered to what standard a potential plaintiff had…
Texte de ma conférence a Edmunston – pour plus, svp voir http://www.downes.ca/presentation/317 Dans cette présentation, Stephen Downes aborde la question à savoir comment les MOOC (massive open online courses) influenceront…
An association of evolutionary biologists, paleontologist and other experts on evolutionary theory recently held a conference to confirm the poor theoretical basis behind the Paleo diet, which suggests humans haven’t…
The Sask Party is putting all of the province’s health related laundry into one laundry basket, in Regina. If you don’t know Saskatchewan geography, this borders on insanity. We’re going…
Ah, the sweet taste of vindication. A week ago, I made a deeply depressing suggestion: that a critical mass of the electorate are simply prepared to accept just about any…
Using Montreal Simon’s great phrase, Stephen Harper is “crazy desperate” about deflecting media attention from Duffy. He is flinging mud wildly against the Liberals (Tony Merchant’s off-shore account) and the…
Most of us were raised with the adage from the Gospel according to St. Matthew (7:1, in case you’re interested in looking it up) – “Judge not lest ye be…
Life is a bugger. Queen Elizabeth II, from very young to an old lady – time-lapse. So ladies and gentlemen enjoy your life when you’re still young. It will happen…
The shale gas industry has performed the “shock doctrine” at the 11th hour of the 2013 Illinois State Legislature’s debate over hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”), the toxic horizontal drllling process through…
Did your mama always want you to become a lawyer? Well, according to a survey conducted by Lawyers.com, those kinds of parental inclinations probably haven’t changed much. Parents of the…
Oscar Wilde’s character Lady Bracknell says in The Importance of Being Earnest: “to lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune … to lose both seems like carelessness.” Does…
The basis of creating effective teams is connecting and engaging with your team mates. People perform best when they are fulfilling both a personal purpose and are furthering the noble…
My post @SlawTips today looks at the calls for technological modernization of Canada’s court system. It may seem like equal parts pipe dream and unscheduled inevitability, but in the context…
Andrew Coyne, in response to a query from Ezra Levant, has written a short letter outlining his position with respect to the CRTC’s granting CBC special distribution rights. I have…
The Saskatchewan Party lost the 2003 provincial election when their leader, Elwin Hermanson said to a reporter, “why wouldn’t we look at selling crown corporations?” That one sentence resonated negatively…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Paul Krugman makes the case for significantly higher taxes on the rich: What would raising tax rates at the top accomplish? It…
The Senate has been much in the news lately, with the expense troubles of a few Senators – compounded by the mishandling of their investigation – bringing much negative attention…
For many years, I did editorials on radio. I did not squeak in a high voice in with a heavy Pakistani accent to disguise my voice. I occasionally did one…
Russell Wangersky is a fine writer with a keen and insightful mind. He is also an editor at the province’s largest circulation daily. That’s the same place where former fisheries…
