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Strategy in an Emergency

I’ve had a couple of people say to me recently that in light of the current carnage, I must be having trouble getting business. “No time for strategy right now, huh?” Wrong. You see, “strategic planning” isn’t one single thing: it encompasses a huge variety of activities. And some of them, no, you probably don’t want to mess around with during an emergency. But others, you really, really do, and failure to do so is likely to make the carnage

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October 29, 2024 No Comments

Saskatchewan Election Manifesto Analysis, 2024

Hi all. Third of three manifesto analyses for this ballot-iest of Octobers, this time Saskatchewan which goes to the polls today. This one might be the simplest one yet, mainly because Saskatchewan elections—like those in the other two Prairie provinces—are a resolutely two-party affair. It has been 25 years since a third-party MLA has been elected to the legislature, and there is zero danger of that streak being broken tonight. But also because the differences in the two parties’ platforms

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October 28, 2024 No Comments

Global Mega-Science: Universities, Research Collaboration, and Knowledge Production with David Baker

Science makes the world go around.  Even if the political world we inhabit is increasingly vibes-based rather than evidence-based, the physical world around us is becoming more driven by technology and science every day. Nowadays, science and universities are seen almost as two sides of the same coin. But it wasn’t always that way and there have been alternatives. Go back 250 years and it wasn’t at all clear that science and universities were meant for each other for laboratories were often

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October 17, 2024 No Comments

Carnage

Y’all may recall January 22nd, when federal Immigration Marc Miller slapped a national cap on international student visas which implied a 35% cut (but larger in Ontario) and effectively killed off the PPP industry for (mainly Ontario) community colleges. You may also recall September 16th, when Miller returned to say “surprise! Now the cap includes graduate students” and also made changes to the post-graduate work-visa program which are likely to obliterate colleges’ ability to recruit students (the guesses I am hearing from the

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October 16, 2024 19 Comments

New Brunswick Election Manifesto Analysis, 2024

Good morning, everyone. Hope you had a good weekend. The New Brunswick election is a mere week away, so let’s get to our platform analysis. I’m restricting the analysis to the three parties with an outside shot of actually winning a seat—the Greens, the Conservatives and the Liberals—and yes, I know there are the New Democrats and the People’s Alliance, but c’mon. New Brunswick politics holds a special place in my heart. Mainly because of the frequency of moments of

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October 15, 2024 No Comments

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