Perhaps in response to an earlier post, a friend emailed me this interesting article which defends our ol boy at the helm.
I think Linwood, as usual (insert boneheaded burlington wanna be cool guy insult here), is missing the point.
It’s not about Stephen Harper being able to relax and choose what he reads. It’s about [...]
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Harper Follow Up
Posted in news, thoughts n opinions on May 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Can’t.Wait.
Posted in libraries, thoughts n opinions on May 4, 2007 | No Comments »
I hope this documentary is as good as all the hype. There’s even a facebook group for it.
I feel this is such a prominent topic amongst us librarians, it’s about time someone stopped whinging about it and started filming it:
hollywoodlibrarian.wordpress.com
The trailer shows a number of older (not that there’s anything wrong with that) librarians. [...]
Not Just A Book List
Posted in news, thoughts n opinions on April 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Yann Martel (author of Life of Pie (2001), Self (1996)) has recently started a project called:
“What is Stephen Harper Reading“
In one word: awesome.
Someone should be recommending books to our Prime Minister, if nothing else, that means maybe he can discuss something intellectual (insert gawf) about the Arts with some of his cronies, despite the fact [...]
Hope & Beyond
Posted in libraries, news, thoughts n opinions on April 23, 2007 | No Comments »
I listened to a CBC Radio 1 program called Ideas and their topic tonight was on the recently (as in, the last 30-40 years) coined phrase “Social Entrepreneurship“.
Briefly the show is described by CBC as:
THE KINGS OF PHILANTHROPY
Some have called it the natural fall-out of a hyper-capitalist society — billionaires who’ve made more money from [...]
