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Category Archives: Politics

Friday Fun Link – 40 Ideas We Need Now (Nov 10, 2006)

This Magazine’s current issue has a cover story on “40 Ideas We Need Know” which has many prominent thinkers contributing their thoughts on “a big idea whose time has come.” Copyright reform, the Hipster PDA (which I use myself – who knew I was hip?) and “a safe place to pee” is just a small […]

Posted 10 November 2006 § FridayFunLink § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

WIFI@yourlibrary

Our genealogy class got out early today so that people could either work on assignments, do research or come down to LPL to vist the “London Room”, the library's local history room.  I'd seen the room briefly during our LPL tour in Public Libraries class but had a couple hours to kill before I had […]

Posted 08 November 2006 § Internet § Library § Main Page ‡ Comments (3) °

Alternate Spring Break

I don't think I'll sign up but I thought this was a pretty cool idea… Alternative Spring Breaks 2007 : “Be the Change…”Instead of hitting the beach, you (Western students) have the chance to participate in an intensive, hands-on service project during Reading Week 2007, organized by The Centre for New Students and Western Residence […]

Posted 04 November 2006 § Main Page § Travel ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – US Presidential Speeches – Tag Clouds (Nov 3, 2006)

Just in time for the US mid-term elections next week, this site (which unfortunately is best viewed in Internet Explorer) creates a tag cloud of the most-used phrases in every President’s State of the Union address going back to 1776. Phrases are shown in terms of popularity, frequency and trends. Use the slider at the […]

Posted 03 November 2006 § FridayFunLink § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Roy Romanow at UWO

The Health Policy Initiative at Western is bringing Roy Romanow to campus for a public lecture. Romanow will speak on What Kind of Society Do We Want?: Social Values and the Health and Well-Being of Canadians. The talk takes place on Friday, October 27 at 3 p.m. in the Arthur & Sonia Labatt Health Sciences […]

Posted 26 October 2006 § Main Page § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) °

How Good Is This Liberal Leadership Debate?

Man, when I was a kid and Question Period came on, I used to practically cry.  But this afternoon, I'm watching Michael Ignatieff spar with Bob Rae (they were roommates in college), watching Scott Brison (one of Canada's few openly gay MP's) say that if he didn't support gay marriage, it would cause a “gay […]

Posted 15 October 2006 § Main Page ‡ Comments (3) °

Back at the Ranch…

Vote Jim Holmes, executive member of the Friends of the RPL, for mayor of Regina.  A friend of mine in Regina has been doing a great job of tracking some of the improprieties of current mayor, Pat Fiasco Fiacco on the “Politics 'n' Poetry” blog (and yes, those two things do go together and should […]

Posted 01 October 2006 § Main Page § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (4) °