When most of us think of the Romance languages, what usually comes to mind are the “Big Five:” French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian. All of them have a country to themselves, even if some of them share it with speakers of other tongues, such as German in Italy’s Trentino-Alto Adige region near the Austrian [...]
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According to the Saturday edition of the Toronto Star, Louise Brown says that the Toronto District School Board is proposing to put “Canada’s first Africentric alternative school within a school — not a free-standing building — for a wing of sprawling Sheppard Public School near the northwest corner of Sheppard Avenue West and Keele Street” in Toronto. [...]
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The term ‘Israeli-Palestinian conflict’ is so common that a generation has grown up thinking this is a normal state of affairs – with no real consequence outside the Middle East. Throughout the course of recent Mid-East history, the struggles on this relatively small piece of ancient land have been closely watched for different reasons. Biases [...]
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Quite often, the best music is discovered by accident. Local artist and longtime friend Aia asked me to videotape a concert he was promoting at the Drake Hotel. Aia was opening for Tycho, a California-based graphics artist and music producer well respected in IDM (Intelligent Dance Music) circles. IDM is a highly experimental genre that [...]
Filed under: Arts, Video by Blink7
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Is Canada doing too much to accommodate visible minorities? According to a poll commissioned by the Globe and Mail and CTV News, 61% of Canadians as a whole, and 72% of Quebeckers, answer in the affirmative. This figure is higher among rural as opposed to urban dwellers, people over fifty, and those who earn less [...]
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Public funding for art has always been a prickly issue. In Canada, the movie industry is rallying against a bill that would deny tax credits to film productions deemed offensive: The change to the Income Tax Act (Bill C-10) would allow [Heritage Minister Josée] Verner, or a government committee, to deny tax credits to productions [...]
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Like so many people, I don’t particularly like change. So, when I was faced with having to upgrade to Word Press 2.5, the latest version, I was a little nervous. Particularly because it was reported to be quite different and I am not a techie by any stretch of the imagination. Well, I can report [...]
Filed under: Education, Technology by Sandy
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So apparently Mobile phones are ‘more dangerous than smoking.’ Great. [via Under the Radar Media del.icio.us news feed] Guess it was a good idea to upgrade my busted up phone, even tho I had to betray Nokia for the $100 (w/contract) Pantech Duo. This new phone easily encourages me to text message even more. I’m [...]
Filed under: Technology by Jeela
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