https://rfmcdonald.dreamwidth.org/ A Bit More Detail - Dreamwidth Studios Mon, 08 Jan 2018 23:59:55 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios rfmcdonald personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/5086217/1786650 https://rfmcdonald.dreamwidth.org/ 94 100 https://rfmcdonald.dreamwidth.org/5242625.html Mon, 08 Jan 2018 23:59:55 GMT https://rfmcdonald.dreamwidth.org/5242625.html <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 https://rfmcdonald.dreamwidth.org/5242625.html tibet national identity education news canada refugees first nations québec economics demographics identity cities links public 0 https://rfmcdonald.dreamwidth.org/3220137.html Mon, 09 Jun 2014 17:04:56 GMT https://rfmcdonald.dreamwidth.org/3220137.html <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 https://rfmcdonald.dreamwidth.org/3220137.html chinese language nato democracy mexico switzerland glbt issues alaska federalism borders astronomy politics united states pet shop boys eurasia language economics non blog ukraine european union russia crime crimean tatars regionalism links identity imperialism space science united kingdom public 0