Dr Roy's Thoughts: First Nation Education Issues

There are two very real and related challenges creating a crisis for First Nations education authorities (the reserve equivalent of school districts) today: funding and accountability.

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Worldchanging: Bright Green: Shopping Our Way to Safety

Shopping Our Way to Safety: How We Changed from Protecting the Environment to Protecting Ourselves by Andrew Szasz.

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Everything Forks: Riverview Recreation Center Review

The BoS was scheduled to review a revised plan by Gary Strausser to convert a temporary road into a township maintained road that serves as the entrance to the Riverview recreation center and extend the sidewalks along the road. …

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Review: Ontroerend Goed, Forced Entertainment ~ theatre notes

Which is what happened last week, when I went to see Ontroerend Goed and Forced Entertainment . I smugly thought I’d see two shows in a single evening, running from the Meat Market to the Town Hall in the quarter hour gap between events.

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FemaleScienceProfessor: Home Angst Home

The instinct to return to one’s ancestral home seems to be quite strong in many different creatures, but I wonder if any of those birds or butterflies or sea creatures would rather not return home but somehow feel that they should. …

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Loaded Gun: Science behind locally shot film 'The Surrogates'

“Surrogates is not that far of the mark of what kind of technologies that emerging today,” says Dr. James Stanton, a noted global futurist

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The Written World: Music and Memory

For me, the thing that triggers the most memories is music . I can be driving in the car, listening to the radio, and then a song comes on and a memory — of a person or place — hits me so powerfully, I’ll have to pull the car over …

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The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus: Be Kind To Small Animals

But throwing small animals and kicking inanimate objects over Saturday night’s 3-1 loss is counterproductive. I’m not sure when throwing small animals would be productive, but I guess you would have to ask Kevin Mitchell about that

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