Game Learning Analytcs for Evidence=Based Serious Games
Summary of a talk by Baltasar Fernandex Manjon at CELDA 2019 ie.ft.com/uber-game Serious games – Have been used successfully in many domains – medicine, military – But low adoption in…
November 2019
A little media #TBT action
The hair: it’s thick and lustrous, no?
The ‘most pro-life Legislature in decades’ gets ready to make its first move to restrict reproductive rights
Does anyone recall when Cameron Wilson, political action director of the “Wilberforce Project,” previously known as Pro-Life Alberta, bragged that “if the UCP wins the upcoming election, then we will…
City and Park Board prepare for winter weather, encourage residents to do the same
November 6 2019 As the seasons shift, the City of Vancouver is preparing for its winter weather response and is encouraging residents to take time to do the same. This…
The Month of November – It’s Important for Two Reasons
November is a sombre month. The leaves have fallen where I live, and the skies are steely gray. Rain changes to sleet and then back to rain again. Geese cry…
How Do You Like Your Chances?
Maybe you think they’re just making this sh*t up. Maybe you would like to think they’re just making this sh*t up but you realize that they’re not. Maybe the enormity…
Time for Reflection
We live in an interesting time, and not always for the best reasons. Let’s face it, 2019 has been a crazy year and 2020 doesn’t promise to be much better.…
LEGAL OPINION-Mayor Al Siebring Is Overreaching With His VIMC Threaten and Rescue Play
Today North Cowichan Mayor Siebring and Council will wrestle with his threaten and rescue scheme designed to convince the council to back off of their 5-2 decision rejecting the GAIN…
Scotland Banned Fraking, Rest of UK to Follow
Fraking is really bad for all of us, it’s the process of using water to force dirty oil out of the ground. This practice destabilizes the ground causing earthquakes and…
A Sophisticated Scam That Almost Ensnared Me
I think we are all familiar with the garden-variety scams that are endemic on today’s Internet. Sometimes it is a Nigerian prince or princess offering to send us millions to…
Ford The Prairie Premier
Doug Ford has thrown in his lot with the prairie premiers — particularly Jason Kenney. And he rails about national unity. Martin Regg Cohn writes: Suddenly, our populist premier has…
A failure in leadership.
If conservative leader Andrew Scheer is looking for compassion, he is looking in the wrong places. There is no succor for losers in Toronto’s Albany club. Long the King Street…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Covered cats.
If We Don’t Heed Them Now, We’re SCREWED!
Parliament may have declared we’re in a state of climate emergency but, lamentably, there’s precious little evidence that they mean it. Canada remains bitumen country, pipeline country, and bugger the…
The Shifting Red Chamber
As we start to go into our new reality of minority government in Canada, there are many things that many observers need to pay attention to in order to stay…
“5 Questions” Interview(s) With Ontario Liberal Party Candidates: Mitzie Hunter
Mitzie Hunter is next up in answering some questions about her Ontario Liberal Party leadership run. You’ll find her relevant website and contact info below the very last answer of…
A Progressive Surge Is Brewing Across Latin America
Bolivian vice president Álvaro García Linera (left) with President Evo Morales A year ago, the corporatists and anti-socialist militarists in the administration of US president Donald Trump appeared ecstatic over…
7 Books for a Facebook tag game
# Tagged for a stupid facebook meme — Oct 25, 2019 Will not tag anyone to end the Karma chain. No particular order, except the order in which I thought…