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[15 Dec 2009 | No Comment | 41 views]
Attending the SLC?

Are you going to the Student Leadership Conference this year? Its on January 9th and all of the information is available on how to attend at the SLC homepage. This years keynote speaker is Canadian Senator Romeo Dallaire. I would highly recommend registering to attend the well recognized event! you can get all the necessary information on the SLC Homepage.
If you are attending (and here comes the shameless plug) I’m running two sessions that day that you might think about signing up for. They first is ‘Finding Your Element’ where …

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[11 Dec 2009 | No Comment | 74 views]
Some Papers I Wrote

I thought I would be an egotistical bastard and post up some papers I wrote this year for one of my all time favorite classes: POLI 310 – Parliament and Party: The Strategy of Politics. If you are in poli-sci you must take this course. I really liked writing the papers as a lot of the game theory concepts are parallel to evolutionary biology models.
Charles Tupper: A Measure of Patience
Stephen Harper: A James Dean for the 21st Century (based of of this editorial by Andrew Steele)
Comments and debate on them …

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[4 Dec 2009 | 5 Comments | 491 views]
Continuing Down the Rabbit Hole

So where do we stand after Wednesday’s council meeting. Lets first look at what we have learned and move on to what what will happen in the coming days. I’m feeling very much like Alice today and so this post is influenced by Carrol’s fantasy world, one of my favourite books.
Where we stand
Now, I give you fair warning, either you or your head must be off, and that in about half no time! Take your choice! – The Queen from Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland
I believe that there is little …