Hurray for an election in Canada! Most Canadians will head to the polls on January 23rd, unless you, like me, happen to be living in another country. If you, or a friend, is studying abroad, you may want to point them to this page in the Elections Canada site where they can register to vote [...]
I’ve been a little too busy to post lately having appeared on local TV 5 times and the national CCTV once. Ha ha! It’s true! Most of my time here in Tianjin is preparing for exams. Today Ryan and I had out butts whooped by a test in Chinese language; however, we are learning something. [...]
Getting out of a cab, my wallet must have slipped, because (literally) a second later I looked for it and my pocket was empty and my cab was gone. Thankfully I lost very little, but trying to call TD CanadaTrust to cancel an ATM card isn’t easy from an international location. Their Customer Service page [...]
A common question I’ve received is about what universities are “famous” in Canada, in the way that Harvard University is famous. Today I learned that UBC is proving itself a leader in physics research by proving that the Cow-tipping myth hasn’t got a leg to stand on (hat-tip: Boing Boing)
[View Diagram] Margo Lillie, a doctor [...]
The air is thick today. Apparently it’s thick throughout the winter months. When you blow your nose, the tissue is black. A recent China Daily article said the Air Pollution Index (API) for Beijing is 139. In Vancouver, the rating scale doesn’t even go past 100. There’s no way to appreciate clean air quite like [...]
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Halifax (加拿大哈利法克斯市) local time is now:
05 Sep 2008 at 6:14 PM
In 2004, Justin left his job in Vancouver (温哥华) to study at Thompson Rivers University (汤普森河大学) and pursue a degree in business, with an economics major. From 2005-06 he was part of an exchange program with the Tianjin University of Technology (天津理工大学) in Tianjin, China. Instead of returning to Canada, TRU World sent Justin to Nanchang University (南昌大学) to study Mandarin Chinese. In both programs he was the first student from TRU to participate in these exchange programs in China and, in total, spent 2 years living in China.
Since returning to Canada in July 2007, Justin relocated to Canada's eastern city of Halifax (哈利法克斯) and transferred to Saint Mary's University (圣玛丽大学) to continue his business studies.
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"I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
—Stephen Grellet (1773-1855)
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
—Abraham Lincoln
