The middle of this last week was spent in Saskatoon at the UofR’s internship seminar.  The seminar itself was nothing to get excited about; fairly routine procedural stuff.  In the course of one of the discussions, however, an interesting debate was launched.
We were talking about the law in Alberta whereby teachers have to inform parents [...]

CBC says the liberals have won in BC again.  That’s good news, I’m surprised they could win a third straight in this environment.

In a story that we’ve been talking about on and off since August of 2003, Texas is once again at the forefront of the evolution/creation debate for schools.  Once again, textbooks are at issue.  After having defeated the Intelligent Design proponents in ’03, science teachers are back in the hot spot as a renewed attack [...]

It sounds like Netanyahu has been chosen to be Israel Prime Minister.  Good news I think.  By the way, this election is a good reason to oppose proportional representation.  I’d hope he can form a government without extremists, and without the labor party.  He certainly has a tough job going forward, but I think he [...]

It appears the Israel election was pretty much a tie, with Kadima winning 29 seats and Likud 28.  I am a Netanyahu fan, so I was hoping for a Likud win.  Likud had been ahead in the polls.  The Labor party got crushed, and some right-wing party I’ve never heard of came third.  It is [...]

So obviously, the big news in politics this week is the possibility that the government of Canada might be defeated on a confidence motion, possibly ushering in the first coalition government in over 90 years.  The fact that 114 Liberal and NDP MPs want to take the reins of government from 147 Conservative MPs is [...]

While both Obama’s speech and McCain’s concession talked about the need to come together to heal the divide, I can’t help but think that American politics are more polarized today than ever before.  A comments thread on one of the major networks’ website had over 2000 comments, equally divided between “I’m so proud to be [...]

So, we know Canada’s FPTP system is messed up – parties end up in charge based on a plurality, lacking even a simple majority.  This evening, it seemed to me that the American system is not an improvement.  Even with only two parties in the running (okay, there’s really more, but they’re statistically insignificant), a [...]

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Scott McLeod at Dangerously Irrelevant has posted two videos about Generation WE, also known as the millenials.  While I supposed I’m probably too old to be part of that generation, some of what they have to say resonated with me.  Take a look:
Generation WE: The Movement Begins… from Generation We on Vimeo.

1.  You thought the debates were repetitive?  You were right.
2.  This is how elections should be decided…

Much like the teensy morsel-sized packs of snacky goodness served on my flights back and forth to Ontario this past weekend, I have small nibbles of bloggy sagacity to share with you today.  In no particular order:
- Kottke has a video on how globes are made.  Fascinating!
- Ed Willet links to an ABC News column [...]