For those unfamiliar, FORA.tv has been collecting and uploading big ideas on video from various conferences and think tanks from all around the world for about the last 5 years.  Recently, an interesting Picnic 2009 presentation was posted entitled “The Arab Social Web”, with participation from Creative Commons, Al Jazeera and Lebanese NGO Social Media [...]

There still may be time: the deadline to nominate a candidate to receive the Paul Yuzyk Award for Multiculturalism is March 1, 2010.   The federal Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism annual award recognizes “individuals who have made exceptional contributions to Canadian multiculturalism and the integration of cultural communities and new Canadians.”
In an interesting spin, the award [...]

Perhaps a bit late now, but I feel compelled to close a loop.  A little over 2 weeks ago, I wrote a post about our then-upcoming Editorial Board with (at-the-time) Toronto mayoral candidate Adam Giambrone.
The event was attended, and subsequently reported, by a number of our partner network journalists. Giambrone spoke about his vision of [...]