By the way — the only other interesting factoid I pulled out of my interview with the President of the Vancouver Whitecaps? When I asked him what kind of influence his past roles as coach of the Canadian Olympic and national teams had on his current position, he said, “It doesn’t.” I tried to press him on that, but couldn’t really get anything from it.
Other than that — we talked about the season and how the Sounders were generous for offering their business plan as a model to other clubs.
And I’d been reading that weirdly incoherent, So You Think You Want to Be A Director of a Football Club? at the time, too.
Good afternoon.
Here’s some of the news: Ontario and Quebec continue to have sluggish labor markets — Alberta, however, is leading the way (Fraser Institute); Al Jazeera’s James Bays meets Libya’s former foreign minister, now a captive; RBS has stopped lending to cluster bomb manufacturers; Obama is moving to sell Northop drones to South Korea; Syrian troops have again raided the city of Hama; and former Prime Minister Kan has posted a last blog entry.
“Canadian opposition leader Jack Layton has died after a second bout of cancer, aged 61.”
For more — The Globe and Mail. National Post. Layton’s Letter to Canadians. Metafilter.
Toronto streets on a rainy evening..
(via amongstthetrees)
Rivers under the city of Montreal.
(h/t Geoff Managh.)
Twitter, Two Days Of:
- Just One Word On Facebook Helped Wired Figure Out Who Took The Protoype iPhone by @jwyarow http://bit.ly/aQYlWt
- Utah Fans Concerned As Jazz Break Huddle By Shouting ‘Kill The Mormons’ http://onion.com/b1L5al
- 10 Reasons To Delete Your Facebook Account http://bit.ly/9P08qP
- “YouTube to Let Users Charge Rental Fees for Videos” http://bit.ly/bF7wIu
- Don’t miss Dave Cole from the team talk abt open source principles behind @WhiteHouse.gov http://bit.ly/cb9Zx0 #drupal #gov20
- Greece has a day without TV, papers, flights, schools, doctors http://bit.ly/98Ejd7
- Hospitals Sponsor a Mommy Blog for the Merrimack Valley http://ow.ly/1GScT #mommyblog #mom #hospital #healthcare #hcmktg
- A new map of childhood obesity in the U.S. http://lat.ms/du8wyk RT @LATimeshealth
- Fallows: New York’s “emotional and social response” to terror is what America’s should be. @theatlantic http://bit.ly/9f3n0N
- Facebook up 69%, Twitter up 45%. Global users now average 6 social hours a month http://j.mp/cYGcbB
- Chile’s wired classrooms. #teachtheworld http://ht.ly/1GNVP
- Despite Cambridge City Council ban, surveillance cameras remain http://bit.ly/9KtkS4
- Street View trike hits Melbourne, and The Age was there … http://bit.ly/cAlal5
- German postman marries obese & asthmatic cat before it dies. “We cuddle all the time,” he says http://ow.ly/1H6YD
- This is a cool story about Canadian soldiers and stray dogs in Afghanistan: http://bit.ly/bPsYqr
