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What I am Working on Right Now
I am working on a project with the University of Regina Students’ Union for the referendum on continued membership in the Canadian Federation of Students. I am the chair of the ‘No Vote’. For this post not to have a complaint filed against it, I have to post material that has been approved by the Referendum Oversight Committee (ROC) or risk having it ordered to be taken down or face consequences:
Frequently Asked Questions about the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS):
How much do we pay?
Collectively the UofR pays $89,000 per year or $11 per full time student and $5.50 per part time student to make up the combined national and provincial membership fee to the CFS.
What does CFS do for U of R students?
If you go to their website over the past ten years they have 544 press releases, four are about Saskatchewan and two are about the U of R.
What does the CFS do Federally?
They will tell you that they lobby government and fight for students but the reality is that post-secondary education is administered at a provincial level. Whatever the CFS lobby’s for will affect the UofR the same regardless if we are Continue Reading
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The Architecture of Lineups
I hate lineups. For anything really. I’m impatient and I usually want things as fast as they can humanly be delivered to my hands. I’m pretty sure no one likes lineups so it is a perplexing issue to me that as humans (lineup haters) we don’t do everything in our power to minimize, shrink, or do what every we can to demolish these horrible things that eat up our time.
I don’t believe it is the general public’s or customers fault that there are lineups, it all has to do with the choice of architecture of the lineup. These companies and organizations that under estimated their own traffic and how long wait times would be now must look to alternate methods of satisfying the demand at a minimal cost.
There is some research being conducted around lineups and how to minimize wait times but this research is mostly for grocery stores and Wal-Mart. I think the research paid off, the “Express Line” at Safeway, the “12 items or less line” at Superstore and the newly adopted number system at Wal-Mart where they herd everyone into a line and a lovely women over the loud speaker tells you which till to Continue Reading
Saskatchewan Pavilion
Saskatchewan is my favorite province, so when I was given the opportunity to help out with the Saskatchewan Pavilion in Vancouver for the 2010 Olympic games, I of course said YES!
It’s been a proud week for the province, our pavilion is located beside the Quebec and Ontario pavilion’s and is across from the Molson Canadian Hockey house, the largest bar at the Olympic games (though it’s only a $99-$450 cover charge).
It’s a surreal moment when you walk around Concord Place and see your own province on the World’s stage beside Ontario and Quebec. Even more so when you find out that neither pavilion is prepared to hold more than 300 people and the SaskPavilion has a capacity of just over 600. What not a better role for the Province of Saskatchewan but to host the largest no-cover-charge party in Vancouver.
With the assistance of Riley Moynes from Living Sky Media, we will be putting together video‘s pretty much every day in Vancouver to give Regina a taste of the Olympiad. While I’m here I apologize for the less then regular posting but I’ll try to keep you up to date with the behind the scene antics of what happens at Continue Reading
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