The BBC is reporting that a British national who is teaching in Sudan has been arrested for allowing her children to name the class bear “Mohammed.” Complaints from parents, long after the naming took place, were the cause of her arrest. This case should be of particular interest to those in the ESL industry who [...]
The world’s greatest chessplayer, who is also a political leader of one of Russia’s opposition parties, was just arrested, abused, and jailed for five days after attending a 3000-strong demonstration. I’ve linked to the Chessbase article, as that provides links to all the major news coverings.
Royal Canadian Mint Collector’s Quarter Celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Anniversary Today a service was held in London to commemorate the diamond wedding anniversary of their Majesties. Tomorrow they travel to Malta to celebrate the actual day of their 60th wedding anniversary. Her Majesty, the Queen of Canada, is the only British monarch to celebrate this [...]
Image of a 1792 experimental US coin from the AP (originally provided by Heritage Auction Galleries One anonymous collector has just purchased from another anonymous collector a collection of some of the earliest American test coins. The sale, reported by the Associated Press, saw $30 million dollars US change hands. The above photograph shows one [...]
On October 14th, Royal Canadian Mountain Police fired a taser gun twice at a new immigrant to Canada who was distraught after having been unable to leave a secure area at Vancouver International Airport (YVR) for ten hours. The killing has now made international headlines, having been picked up by the BBC, and Reuters. After [...]
Remembrance Day themed quarter
Mark Steyn has some unusually contemplative thoughts on the meaning of culture and aesthetics here.
Canadian numismatics is certainly a hobby I enjoy immensely. Shortly before I learned that student enrollment, and therefore teacher employment, drops in my division in January, I traded in an old, very thin ring that had been a junior high school present, and emptied the change jar in which I had carefully stored some regular [...]
Since my favourite political blogger the Phantom Observer has not (yet) observed anything about this latest CBC story on Mulroney’s alleged dealings with a German national by the name of “Karlheinz Schreiber,” I thought I would put out my two cents. Essentially, what happened is that Schrieber, fighting extradition to Germany to face charges of–as [...]
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