Month: January 2012

In the name of honour…not: Teachable takeaway from the Shafia verdict

Turning on the car yesterday morning and the first words I heard from CBC were Shafia. On the television, in the newspaper, on my Internet browser…Shafia, Shafia, Shafia. And honour killing. Afghans around the world were interviewed to comment on honour killing. Random people on the street felt their country’s values vindicated through the guilty In the name of honour…not: Teachable takeaway from the Shafia verdict

On learning

My young son learns by watching, by listening, by mimicking, by testing. He learns how to eat by watching me eat and then eating. He learns how to speak by hearing me speak and then speaking. He learns how to stand by standing. And I’m sure it’s because he sees us moving around that he On learning

“National Canine Latin Barking assessments” – Canadian version

I read Michael Doyle’s posts about the frustrations of the whole standardized hoop-jumping, I mean testing, situation with an odd sense of voyeurism. We just don’t have that kind of thing here…dare I say yet? In Ontario they do, maybe in other places in Canada, too. But Quebec is so involved in being unique that “National Canine Latin Barking assessments” – Canadian version