Apparently I am not the only one not impressed with the Michael Ignatief tour. According to Thomas Walkom, even when things are going well, all is not well. Most of all, however, he emphasizes that he is at one with his audience. “Everything good that happened to me happened because I had a publicly funded [...]
July, 2010:
You had me at Wifi
This looks like the Kindle that will finally make me purchase a e-book reader. There are a few new features as well, the most important of which is a new WebKit-based browser. WebKit is the open-source base for all of our favorite mobile web browsers, including those used by the iPhone, iPad, Palm Pre, and [...]
LeBron James’ Legacy
Yahoo! Sports Adrian Wojnarowski defines Lebron James’ legacy in his column about Chris Paul. What’s best for Paul’s family is best for everyone’s family in the NBA. It needs James to restrict the polluting onto others of his own warped value system. James plays for the Miami Heat, but somehow he wants control of transactions [...]
No Truth or Reconcilliation for Aging Residential School Survivors
Sad article by Linda Diebel in today’s Toronto Star At parliamentary committee hearings in early 2009 — before the current commission was established — NDP MP Jean Crowder, from B.C., listened to the official Indian Affairs ministry count that 97,000 survivors claimed compensation, with 72,000 approved (average payment, $20,500), but that 20,000 had been found [...]
Revisionist History
Paul Krugman in the New York Times today has a fun article on the legacy of George W. Bush and how the GOP are pushing for a return of his policies. On the economy: Last week Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, declared that “there’s no evidence whatsoever that the Bush tax cuts actually diminished [...]
Gazebo RIP
On Tuesday night a violent wind ripped through Arlington Beach and there was casualties. Among others (our neighbors gazebo), our gazebo suffered a premature death. Several of it’s welds broke which lead to a pretty big structural collapse. Now I think we only paid $99 for it from Superstore but I am unsure if I [...]
The Concentration of Services in Riversdale has broke my weblog
Ever since The StarPhoenix’s Dave Hutton wrote an article covering Pat Lorje’s suggestion that the concentration of social services in Riversdale has become a problem, I have been thinking about it, had to conversations with Councilor Lorje, read some material she gave me, and spent a lot of time looking at city demographics, urban planning [...]
Who Won the World Cup? Nike or Adidas
Harvard Business School analyses the impact of both Nike and Adidas’ marketing approaches. With approximately 2.6 billion people worldwide following the 2010 World Cup, the spectacle has been a field day for marketers, each trying to connect their brand with the strong emotions fans have for their favorite teams. But the stakes are particularly high [...]
Free Books = Summer School
This is interesting Such high-level attention to summer reading is welcomed by educators concerned about the way summer tends to sap learning gains. Two-thirds of the reading achievement gap between low-income 9th-graders and their higher-income peers can be attributed to different levels of reading in the summers, according to research cited by the National Summer [...]
