A new video short uses minimalist graphics and witty wordplay to describe what the Bauhaus was. Gothic Revival Arts and Crafts Bauhaus Modernism American Industrial Design Postmodernism
Combien gagne un chargé de cours? Quelle est l’offre de l’UDM? Combien d’élèves par classe? 23 février Presse canadienne Les chargés de cours exigent notamment un rattrapage salarial et un meilleur accès à la prime de départ à la retraite. Ils voudraient aussi voir la taille des groupes auxquels ils sont affectés être restreinte. 16…
Tu Thanh Ha The Globe and Mail
Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail Something is ailing the people who work for the federal government. They have among the highest absenteeism rates of any workers in Canada. Every day, about 19,000 of them are off on some form of sick leave. Federal civil servants, according to the Treasury Board, take off an average…
L’opinion de Theodore Dalrymple City Journal It was in Africa that I first discovered that the bourgeois virtues are not only desirable but often heroic. I was working in a hospital in what was then still Rhodesia and is now Zimbabwe. I was still of the callow—and fundamentally lazy—youthful opinion that nothing in the world could…
By Nate Silver, The New York Times A monsoon storm in Marana, Arizona. But watching the local news is not the best way to assess the growing accuracy of forecasting (more on this later). It’s better to take the long view. In 1972, the service’s high-temperature forecast missed by an average of six degrees when…