Archive for March, 2008



Earth Hour 2008

Published on March 27, 2008

Don’t forget.
How it started.


Citation for Citizenship | Language training for newcomers

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The federal Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration has certainly been busy this week.
Yesterday, the Hon. Diane Finley, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, announced the call for nominations for the Citation for Citizenship, “to honour Canadians for their outstanding contributions in assisting newcomers to successfully integrate into Canadian society.” Submissions must be postmarked by May 16, [...]


Just because: Ravi Shankar

Published on March 26, 2008

It’s a concert I will never forget. Ever. It was the week of my 17th birthday. A celebratory week that included seeing Burton Cummings down at Ontario Place, Jack Jones at the Imperial Room with my mom and dad, and, then, Ravi Shankar at Seneca College’s Minkler Auditorium. (Yes, probably the [...]


Newsletter fine-tuning

Published on March 19, 2008

First we tried the Feedburner system for sending out alerts to DMS Cafe subscribers.  Although pretty (in fact, Michael Adams has the nicest working system, and newsletter, I’ve seen so far), it didn’t provide us with much creative flexibility.So, we’re trying again; hopefully, all will work well and still drive people to our Blog.  I know, [...]