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DR. VICTORIA PARASCHAK [base "]ABORIGINAL SPORT POLICY IN CANADA: PITFALLS AND PROMISE[per thou] TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 2004 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ROOM 215 HEC BLDG. All are welcome to attend

Centre for Studies in Social Justice University of Windsor (519) 253-3000 Ext. 2326 -- socjust@uwindsor.ca
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London, March 1, 2004) - The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) today announced a $2.5 million investment in a project that will examine how federal, provincial and municipal governments can work together, as well as with voluntary and business interests, to address pressing municipal issues.

After years of playing a supporting role to the federal and provincial governments, municipalities now find themselves centre stage, publicly grappling with issues ranging from the SARS outbreak to power blackouts. Municipalities large and small must also contend with deteriorating roads and transit systems, increasing demands for affordable housing, and integrating new Canadians into their communities.

Led by the University of Western Ontario's Robert Young, Canada Research Chair in Multilevel Governance, a team of 66 researchers will focus on six key policy areas: emergency planning, federal property (including military bases and ports), immigrant settlement, municipal image-building, infrastructure and urban Aboriginal policy.
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Those of us who run school websites and keep personal weblogs are naturally interested in bringing the advantages of weblogs into our schools. Setting up a classroom with Blogger, or managing school news with Movable Type or Frontier have proven to be good starting points, but also have demonstrated to us that schools have unique needs that will require a special set of modifications to get the most out of the possibilites opened up by weblogging.

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173 dead today More than 185 people lost their lives today in Madrid. This graphic homage at left from an illustrator named Forges at El Pais, by way of Spanish blog caspa.tv. As it was here in New York, in Spain everything will now be spoken of in terms of "before March 11," and after.

El Internet fue formado de seres humanos, como nosotros. Un montón de amor y respeto para todos los amigos de BoingBoing que viven en Madrid, y en España. Queremos paz tambien, igual como ustedes.

Madrid-based blogger Ignacio Escolar has this to say: "ETA ha matado hoy a más personas que en los últimos ocho años....Decir que "no hay palabras" es un tópico tan usado que ha perdido su significado. Pero es que, literalmente, hoy no encuentro en el diccionario nada con lo que nombrar a esta masacre." (The ETA killed more people today than in the last eight years in Spain... to say that 'there are no words' is a phrase so overused that it has lost its significance. But the thing is, literally, today I can't find anything in the dictionary with which to describe this massacre.")

Here is a growing list of Spanish-language blogs, many based in Madrid, covering the terrorist attack and its aftermath. Link. Many other blogs appear to be posting this image on their home pages, as an expression of solidarity. BoingBoing buddy in Spain Antonio Delgado, of caspa.tv, says that the online edition of Spanish newspaper El Pais is a paid-access-only site -- but today, all contents are free, including this PDF version of today's edition. Link. Antonio also says traffic to Spanish news websites is up eight times normal, according to this article and this one -- that's more traffic than they received on 9/11. And Jean-Luc says that Spanish professor Jose Luis Orihuela has built a newsfeed about today's events in this post on his weblog.

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