The conference in Ottawa was all about the Millenium Development Goals - but what are those? According to statistics, less then 10% of Canadians have ever heard about them (and I can’t say I really knew, before I began my studies), so let’s do a little introduction. According to Stephen Lewis, special UN envoy for […]

I’m coming to you live from the Ottawa Congress Center, where I am participating in the International Cooperation Days 2004, organized by CIDA. Today I’ve heard lectures about the UN Millenium Development Goals, which is the main focus of the conference, both in general, and focused on education and international health.
In education, WUSC presented […]

I love libraries, and I practically grew up in one. Whenever my mother didn’t know where I was, she would call the kind librarians at Hamar Public Library (the white building), and they’d usually found me in a comfortable couch reading a book. I knew them all by name, and I still drop by once […]

This Thursday I was at the Bloor St. Cinema (an excellent independent cinema) to see “The War and Peace Trilogy” (a very impressive documentary put together by Indymedia) and listen to a speech by Amy Goodman. Amy works at DemocracyNow, a radio show based in NYC and broadcast around the USA.
Saturday I went to […]