- The federal Tories take control of Anders’ riding association :: Apparently the federal Tories are trying to support Rob Anders, the MP who once called Nelson Mandela a terrorist. I have never understood the loyalty that Conservatives have towards Anders who doesn’t even have a following on his own riding executive. Calgary Grit has more.
- Ian MacDonald points out that Stephen Harper is competent but not a visionary :: Harper’s leadership is already historic in the sense that for every Conservative leader with the exception of Sir John A. Macdonald, just winning an election has been half the battle. Harper has already won two, and while he’s been in minority territory, only Brian Mulroney, since Macdonald, has won consecutive majorities as a Conservative leader. But Harper’s unique achievement in terms of party politics is that he united the right, with the merger of the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative parties in 2003, and recreated the Conservative brand equity that enabled their victory, as a viable alternative to the Liberals, in 2006. But Harper’s leadership has been transactional in the sense that while he has done a good job of running the country, he hasn’t yet done much to change it. He hasn’t done anything big. This is about what the first George Bush famously called "the vision thing."
Wendy has posted a series of Super Bowl Party Approved recipes at The Cooking Blog. Your team may not win but at least your party can be memorable. - Could the end of the FNUC be near? I hope not and I wonder if an independent body should be invited in to restructure it, bring in some stability, and start the process of rebuilding it’s academic reputation for a decade or so. Remove it completely from the politics and cronyism that seems to have defined it’s entire existence. During the many years of failed reforms, students have voted with their feet and enrolment has fallen by half.
- How to Get Our Democracy Back: If You Want Change, You Have to Change Congress – Big Government :: Great article by Larry Lessig
- How to start a missional community in the neighborhood
- After his great job running the Knicks, the Clippers reach out to Isaiah Thomas
- Why Apple Killed the $9.99 e-book
- AmazonFail
- Living in a Yurt in the mountains of Alaska
- After three months, only 35 people have signed up for Newsday’s website :: Any prospective owners of the Saskatoon Star Phoenix, please take note, a paywall won’t pay off.
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Re: FNUC. Just a question: Aborigional leaders and ‘the rest of us’ all claim to want the same thing – for aborigonals to be able to ‘walk in two worlds,’ retaining culture and functioning in society. When UofS and U Regina offer aborigonal programs and support does the existance of institutions like FNUC and SIIT offer a future or just more isolation?
I don’t know, I think it would depend on the value that employers place on their degrees (which if you were FNUC, it would be lower than it was even five years ago).
Now I was reading last week that one of the advantages of FNUC is that it helps students adjust to University life in ways that other institutions don’t. So while it may offer some more isolation (to a degree), is that outweighed by the fact that it is giving university education to students who may not get it.