Freedom to Read Week

It’s Freedom to Read Week in Canada this week. It’s interesting to take a look at their list of challenged books to see how many of Canadian literature’s most canonical texts are on that list, including Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners, Timothy Findley’s The Wars, and Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women. Censorship at all [...]

This entry was posted on Monday, February 23rd, 2009 at 1:03 am and is filed under Best Practices, Canadian Culture, Canadian Literature, Teaching/Advising, The World of Literature/Literature of the World.

The Literary Landscapes of Canada

Here’s a list of 40 books or so that I mentioned in a talk given today on Canada’s Literary Landscape. This is anything but a complete list, but it’s not a bad start for anyone looking to learn more about Canadian literature. Canada’s Literary Landscape: A list of suggestions to help you read your way [...]

This entry was posted on Monday, February 16th, 2009 at 12:44 pm and is filed under Canadian Literature, Teaching and Technology, The US of Eh: The Canadian Experience South of the Border.

Where I am speaking today

Speaking today on “Canada’s Literary Landscape” for the Elder Education Enrichment group in South Burlington today. Should be about 100-125 people there to listen. Looking forward to it. Canadian Studies

This entry was posted on Monday, February 16th, 2009 at 8:21 am and is filed under Burlington, The US of Eh: The Canadian Experience South of the Border.

Brilliant

Check out the new Pomegranate Phone! eh?, No way, eh?

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 12th, 2009 at 9:00 pm and is filed under Canada, eh?, Humour, Weirdness.

The ultimate economic stimulus, or how to get there from here

As I said on this blog a few weeks back, imagine how powerful an economic stimulus plan this would be for the US: Bring in a universal health care plan that would A) have the government, not insurance companies, pay doctors and hospitals set rates for tests and procedures (the “costs” of tests and procedures [...]

This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 at 3:29 pm and is filed under Best Practices, Canada, eh?, The US of Eh: The Canadian Experience South of the Border.

Fareed Zakaria on a Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

Good piece by Fareed Zakaria in Newsweek this week about why Canada’s financial sector has weathered this financial crisis so well: Guess which country, alone in the industrialized world, has not faced a single bank failure, calls for bailouts or government intervention in the financial or mortgage sectors. Yup, it’s Canada. In 2008, the World [...]

This entry was posted on Monday, February 9th, 2009 at 11:04 pm and is filed under Canada, eh?, Canadian Politics, The US of Eh: The Canadian Experience South of the Border.

Adam Graves

Working here in the office while watching a video of the Adam Graves jersey retirement in NY last night. He was undoubtedly a great, even heroic player, winning his first Stanley Cup with the Edmonton Oilers before heading to NY, where he helped the Rangers win the cup in 1994. You can see by watching [...]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 at 1:55 pm and is filed under Best Practices, Hockey, of course.

CNN reports on Why Canada Is More Interesting Than it Looks

What? We don’t look interesting? We may not behave in ways that catch peoples’ attentions but we certainly look like an interesting country, don’t we? Well, you need to pay attention to know what you’re missing up there. At any rate, some good explanations here of why Obama’s trip to Canada matters to both countries. [...]

This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 at 3:39 pm and is filed under The US of Eh: The Canadian Experience South of the Border.