tag:dreamwidth.org,2012-10-31:1786650 Assorted Personal Notations, Essays, and Other Jottings rfmcdonald 2018-01-08T23:59:55Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2012-10-31:1786650:5242625 2018-01-08T23:59:55Z 2018-01-08T23:59:55Z public 0 <ul><br /><li>Suggestions that the family of Canadian hero Terry Fox have Métis ancestry and can claim Métis identity are, among other things, timely. <i>The Globe and Mail</i> <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/terry-fox-was-metis-fox-family-explores-and-claims-metisheritage/article37517004/"><u>reports</u></a>.</li><br /><li>National Observer <a href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/01/03/news/indigenous-urban-business-initiatives-growing-demographics-shift"><u>notes</u></a> the growing foothold of First Nations businesses in Canadian cities.</li><br /><li>Identity is becoming complex in an increasingly multiethnic and intermixed Canada. <i>The Globe and Mail</i> <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/multi-ethnic-mixed-race-canada-census-2016/article37475308/?cmpid=rss1"><u>reports</u></a>.</li><br /><li>Québec companies are turning to some of the incoming wave of asylum seekers from the United States in the search for workers. CBC <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-companies-look-to-asylum-seekers-to-help-fill-labour-shortages-1.4447093"><u>reports</u></a>.</li><br /><li>The <i>Toronto Star</i> <a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/immigration/2018/01/03/against-the-odds-these-tibetan-refugee-brothers-are-fulfilling-their-dream-of-becoming-dentists.html"><u>profiles</u></a> two Tibetan-Canadians who are fulfilling their childhood dreams by heading off to be educated as dentists.</li><br /></ul><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rfmcdonald&ditemid=5242625" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2012-10-31:1786650:3220137 2014-06-09T17:04:56Z 2014-06-09T17:04:56Z public 0 <ul><br /><li>The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly <a href="http://broadsideblog.wordpress.com/2014/06/09/the-quest-for-belonging/"><u>comments</u></a> on her search for belonging.</li><br /><li>The Dragon's Gaze <a href="http://thedragonsgaze.blogspot.ca/2014/06/gaia-studies-of-faint-dwarf-starts-and.html"><u>links</u></a> to a paper that estimates the number of flares among brown dwarfs based on observation of red dwarfs.</li><br /><li>The Dragon's Tales <a href="http://thedragonstales.blogspot.ca/2014/06/the-eurasian-union-has-been-harmed-by.html"><u>links</u></a> to a <i>Foreign Affairs</i> article arguing that Eurasian integration has been hurt by Ukraine.</li><br /><li>Joe. My. God. <a href="http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2014/06/britain-pet-shop-boys-to-call-for-mass.html"><u>notes</u></a> that the Pet Shop Boys have called for a mass pardon of Britons convicted of violating past laws banning gay sex.</li><br /><li>Language Log's Victor Mair <a href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=12851"><u>notes</u></a> the widely variant translations of different Chinese languages and registers by online translators.</li><br /><li>The New APPS Blog <a href="http://www.newappsblog.com/2014/06/theory-and-politics-for-europe.html"><u>notes</u></a> that Switzerland would be a good model for the democratic European Union.</li><br /><li>The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer <a href="http://noelmaurer.typepad.com/aab/2014/06/i-am-alive-just-busy-with-the-move-and-the-newborn-and-all-that-ian-bremmer-is-a-smart-guy-i-went-to-graduate-school-with.html"><u>notes</u></a> that Mexico is on the rise.</li><br /><li>Understanding Society's Daniel Little <a href="http://understandingsociety.blogspot.ca/2014/06/public-attitudes-towards-market.html"><u>studies</u></a> the public opinions towards welfare states and the role of the market in the United States and Nordic countries.</li><br /><li>The Volokh Conspiracy <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/06/08/what-if-putin-threatens-us-with-war-over-alaska/"><u>considers</u></a> the limit of the treaty powers of the American federal government. Could the US sign over Alaska to Russia?</li><br /><li>Window on Eurasia <a href="http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.ca/2014/06/window-on-eurasia-nato-moves-not.html"><u>notes</u></a> that the Ukrainian crisis has reenergized NATO and <a href="http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.ca/2014/06/window-on-eurasia-civilization-empire.html"><u>links</u></a> to a Russian writer who argues that Russia is set to become a civilizational empire, not a nation-state.</li><br /></ul><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rfmcdonald&ditemid=3220137" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments