Eric Szeto’s has video [http://www.macleans.ca/culture/lifestyle/article.jsp?content=20080618_119499_119499] of B.C.’s first automatic dog washing machine over in the culture section of the website. It’s an interesting concept. Stick your dog in a box, wait a few minutes and…
I wandered over to the west side of Montreal’s downtown tonight. I was able to pick up a copy of the Toronto Star and the front page story [http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/445811] is about a cabinet shuffle in Ontario. Health minister and deputy premier George…
Susan Clairmont of The Hamilton Spectator (my local paper) writes about foster children entering post-secondary education in her column today. It’s definitely worth a read [http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/388327].…
(Yes, I am stretching for headlines this morning.) This is the obligatory “out-of-the-office” blog post. I’m leaving for Montreal this morning and will not return until Monday. (So, if your in Montreal and have suggestions of a good bar on Thursday or Friday night – email me: joey@joeycoleman.ca)…
Ontario ombudsman André Marin released his annual report [http://www.ombudsman.on.ca/media/18971/ar08_eng.pdf] today, and renewed his call for independent oversight of the province’s universities. Referring to the so-called MUSH sector — municipalities, universities, public schools, hospitals or children’s aid societies — Marin stated these…
The first projected enrolment numbers for September are starting to appear. The student newspaper at Wilfrid Laurier University reports [http://www.cordweekly.com/cordweekly/myweb.php?hls=10034&news_id=1783] 3,192 first year students have accepted admission offers to the Waterloo campus and the university may “convert” single…
According to this Canwest News Servicestory [http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=98ba9236-cec1-44cf-88d7-8cabf9f7b97c] by Misty Harris, people read blogs partially to gain conversation starters to assist them in “getting laid.” Trust me, you don’t want to use anything from this blog in an attempt to…
I believe the record is the most viewed “The connection has timed out” page in the history of the internet! Firefox 3 was released into the wild at 1pm EDT (1700 GMT) and within minutes, the Mozilla servers were overwhelmed by the traffic and became unreachable by the tubes.…