Many Canadian workplaces give their employees a calendar with a list of public holidays. One date however that would virtually never appear on such a calendar in Canada but might in other countries is November 1, All Saints Day. While in North America as a whole All Saints Day (for those who actually [...]
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Shortly after our wedding I asked my wife what she’d like as a wedding gift: a digital SLR or a Nintendo Wii console (this is as romantic as many techies get, after all). To my surprise and eventual delight she chose the Wii. We lucked out by arriving to a Best Buy barely [...]
Filed under: Technology by Blink7
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If someone asked “What is Facebook” would you respond –
“A social utility that connects you with the people around you”
“A human networking site like Myspace, but without the OVERT creep factor”
A good way to covertly waste my time at work while appearing from afar to be busy” (at least until your network administrator smartens up [...]
Filed under: Society, Technology by Cynapse
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It has often been said that the voting public has the attention span of a flea. That is true but there are reasons why it happens. Working parents, young families raising children and time off (which does not include reading the news). People have better things to do than watch what our [...]
Filed under: Politics by Jack
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We should all use strategies to help us organize and manage our lives, be it at school, home or work. Most of us simply do things that help us keep track of what we have to do without even being aware that we are using this or that strategy. But, the reality is, there are thousands of [...]
Filed under: Education by Sandy
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Standing in my room in the attic, I look through the window at a hill ten kilometres away. There is nothing special on it except for the ruins of an old stone and mud-mortar fortress. There, the Inca soldiers dominated all of the valley of Santiago, Chile, ensuring that the trade routes were free from [...]
Filed under: History, Travel by Omar Vega
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Robert Fulford has an excellent column in today’s National Post on how “creativity begins with discipline.” When Fulford refers to discipline, he does not necessarily mean discipline as related to behaviour, but as in the ability to persevere in the face of all odds to get a job done to the absolute best of our [...]
Filed under: Education by Sandy
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In the near future I plan to use a “page” on Crux-of-the-Matter (on the top header bar) to put up parent stories so that the sharing will inform other parents and professionals. Sometimes it is only when hearing another person’s experience(s) do we truly understand the pros and cons of our educational systems. Both parents [...]
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Living in Toronto , it seems, brings us in contact with dozens of different languages. We may hear them on the street or in the subway, see them in print on newsstands, or come across them while flipping through the channels of the TV. And if we are really determined, we can learn [...]
Filed under: History by Emilia Liz
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I received this e-mail and thought I would share it with parents and adults who have autism spectrum disorder. They are looking for “volunteers” who live in the Kingston, Ontario region of Ontario, Canada. They ask that those who are interested, contact the university directly. Here is the announcement:
MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN UNDERSTANDING ASD!
ASD Studies at [...]
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