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My Suggestion for A Better Way to Make Sure A #yxe Father Is Close To His Ill Son #yqr #saskatchewan

Looks like WestJet’s trying to repeat their successful Christmas viral video with another one that will pull your heartstrings for Father’s Day (plus to help make the video go viral, they’ve offered additional flights to Ronald McDonald families for every 100,000 views the clip gets up to a maximum of 500,000.) Of course, this is very generous of […]

Posted 04 June 2014 § Family § Sad § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

2014 Forbes Billionaire Facts & Figures

Posted 28 May 2014 § Infographic § Politics § PopCulture § Technology § UK § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Big Changes at MetaFilter

I don’t hang out there nearly as much as I used to (and worse, a lot of my “community web site” time has shifted to <gasp> Reddit!) so it was a bit of a shock to see a librarian colleague post on Facebook about the big changes happening at MetaFilter. Cash-strapped after a recent downturn […]

Posted 21 May 2014 § Family § Internet § Library § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Fired University of Saskatchewan Professor Re-Hired After Major Outcry

Professor Robert Buckingham, a long time professor at the University of Saskatchewan, was recently fired for speaking out about some major ongoing budget cuts and restructuring plans at the U of S. The University administration claimed that there was a difference between the freedom of expression tenured professors should expect for expressing controversial or politically incorrect […]

Posted 15 May 2014 § Library § Politics § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

What’s A Mom Worth?

Posted 11 May 2014 § Family § Infographic § Shea § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

The Corporate States of America

Here’s an interesting map of the best known brand from each American state (with a handy list of all the brands-by-state so you can see the smaller states that are harder to make out on the map)…

Posted 22 April 2014 § Infographic § List § United States ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

What Is The Most Important Thing You’ve Learned About Leadership?

Below is the top voted answer, by former NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman, to the Quora question “What Is The Most Important Thing You’ve Learned About Leadership” (it’s worth clicking through for some of the other answers as well.) 1) Have a grand vision – Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO, CTO As a leader, you can inspire […]

Posted 03 April 2014 § Infographic § Library § LibrarySchool § List § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

The Correlation Between Unionization and Poverty Rates Around the World

(h/t to MF on FB)

Posted 23 January 2014 § Canada § Infographic § Politics § UK § United States § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

1 in 5 Canadians Have Not Used the Internet In the Past Year: Exploring Our Digital Divide

Canada has a digital divide, a demographic that isn’t fully connected to the online world. In the past year, 20 per cent of Canadians haven’t used the internet once, from any location. And that number doesn’t include other kinds of disconnection, like those who don’t own a computer or cell phone, or who can’t use them effectively. […]

Posted 14 November 2013 § Canada § Internet § Library § Politics § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

To End Poverty in #Canada, Guarantee Everyone $20,000/year (But Are You Willing to Trust the Poor?)

This is not a new idea to Canada (or to this blog). But this article is timely in light of a recent post that came across my Facebook News Feed about how “We all pay taxes so the government can give it to someone who doesn’t work as hard as you do.” That misperception that […]

Posted 10 October 2013 § Canada § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: