http://pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu/ 2009-11-18T14:43:57-05:00 http://pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/11/the_charter_for.html This is a great new movement aiming to spread compassion around the world. We all could use more of that, couldn't we? On February 28, 2008 Karen Armstrong won the TED Prize and made a wish: for help creating, launching... pwmartin 2009-11-18T14:43:57-05:00 http://pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/11/advising_for_sp_3.html Fall registration begins for Seniors on Tuesday, November 17, and opens up for everyone else gradually over that week. Make sure to check the UVM Registration schedule to see when you may begin registering for Spring classes. I'm setting aside... pwmartin 2009-11-13T10:50:47-05:00 http://pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/11/canadian_poet_r.html POETRY READING BY RANDALL MAGGS Thursday, November 12, 4:30 PM John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill Randall Maggs is the author of two collections, Timely Departures (1994) and Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems (2008) and co-editor of two anthologies pairing... pwmartin 2009-11-10T11:50:02-05:00 http://pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/11/northwest_passa.html Below you'll find the latest newsletter from Northwest Passages. Closing down our beloved site after 14 years is hard, but necessary for us. There are lots of good books for sale at our site right now, so make sure to... pwmartin 2009-11-09T13:33:11-05:00 http://pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/09/joseph_boyden_t.html pwmartin 2009-09-19T14:04:35-05:00 http://pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/09/spotted_cow_pre.html Later this afternoon, Edmonton publisher Spotted Cow Press will make history by launching its latest book simultaneously in two Canadian cities. What makes this event unique is that Spotted Cow Press will be printing off copies of S. Minsos' novel... pwmartin 2009-09-18T12:52:30-05:00 http://pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/09/breaking_my_sil.html I've got my head down these days and am working on nothing but my book. I need to take a few moments to say the following: Even as a non-American, I'm getting a bit freaked out by the rhetoric of... pwmartin 2009-09-07T10:46:29-05:00 http://pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/07/the_tragically_1.html All four Martins had a great time at Shelburne Museum this evening. The Tragically Hip were excellent, as usual, and the setting was a wonderful place to see a concert. It's always kind of a surreal experience seeing The... pwmartin 2009-07-26T21:41:10-05:00 http://pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/07/a_bit_more_abou.html I've been trying to write about things other than healthcare, but it's hard these days to keep my mouth shut when I hear some critics in the US pointing to Canada's system as the doom and gloom scenario awaiting the... pwmartin 2009-07-15T13:12:28-05:00 http://pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/05/tim_hortons_nat.html This blog's in hibernation mode until I get my book done, but couldn't resist stopping in to talk about coffee and donuts... This story on a recent survey on Canadians' taste for Tim Hortons is interesting and is probably something... pwmartin 2009-05-28T13:17:05-05:00 http://pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/05/if_you_read_any.html I'm so busy here keeping my head down and trying to get this book finished that I've avoided blogging for weeks. There are lots of things I've been dying to write about, including healthcare, the border, the end of the... pwmartin 2009-05-18T11:46:51-05:00 http://pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/04/great_events_th.html Wednesday, April 22 DONALD R. BROWN MEMORIAL LECTURE IN POLITICAL THEORY: "THE ESSENTIALIST CRITIQUE OF MULTICULTURALISM." Will Kymlicka, Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy, Queen's University, Canada and senior research fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford. Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building. 3:30 p.m.... pwmartin 2009-04-20T13:46:50-05:00 http://pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/04/fall_advising_m.html Fall registration begins for Seniors on Tuesday, April 14 at 7:00 AM, and opens up for everyone else gradually over that week. Make sure to check the UVM Registration schedule to see when you may begin registering for Spring classes.... pwmartin 2009-04-04T11:14:42-05:00 http://pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/03/get_fuzzy_on_ca.html Thanks to Mark for sending this my way.... pwmartin 2009-03-24T16:18:54-05:00 http://pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/03/welcome_to_cana.html Had a wonderful few days in Edmonton where I was giving a paper at the "Transplanting Canada" colloquium put on by the Canadian Literature Centre at the University of Alberta. Click here for a PDF of the conference program if... pwmartin 2009-03-10T14:59:36-05:00