Archive for April, 2007
Saturday, April 7th, 2007
Easter Quiz!
For no apparent reason other than to further pressurise this issue, here’s a quote pertaining to the Australian government and its handling of the David Hicks case: If our government is prepared to allow any one of its citizens to be sacrificed on the altar of expediency, if our government demonstrates that it is not [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in Politics by jangari
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Indigenous languages in Alberta
Courtesy of the Indigenous Languages and Technology list, and in turn, of Bulanjdjan for pointing me in its direction. I’ve just read that the Ministry of Canadian Heritage will be contributing just over $230,000 (Canadian, I’d assume) towards aboriginal language ‘retention’¹ in Alberta . Given the list of languages this grant will service (Cree, Dene, [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Indigenous,Linguistics by jangari
Monday, April 2nd, 2007
April fool’s
I missed out on celebrating April fool’s day – the tragedy – but when this is the standard of practical jokes this year, I’m not at all regretful.
19 Comments » - Posted in Nothing in particular by jangari
Sunday, April 1st, 2007
Carlton on Vanstone
This was the postscript to Mike Carlton’s regular Saturday column in the Herald: FRANKLY, I don’t give a hoot that Amanda Vanstone spent $54,000 of taxpayers’ money on Chinese language lessons when she was immigration minister. I think it was a very good thing. If she can now natter away in Mandarin half as well [...]
