211 bands from 14 countries — and Canadians are taking home the trophy 🇨🇦
Congratulations to the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band. The first champions from outside the UK in 16 years.
Hello. Today, June 23, is commemorated as National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Terrorism. How many Canadians know why? The answer, very sadly, is very few. But I'm going to make a thread about this that I hope will be informative ... I invite you to follow along. #airindia
Smart people don’t likes to be told what to do. Nobody likes to be monitored. And people don’t like to do training they instinctively feel is worthless. 🤷♂️
The pilots achieved the impossible feat of landing without engines. Key points: 1. Importance of training and attention to details. 2. Role clarity on all tasks 3. Keep redundancy systems, primary radar with ATC in this case was a saviour when flight transponder failed. #Training
Today in 1983, Air Canada Flight 143 makes an emergency landing in Gimli, MB.
The flight ran out of fuel at at altitude of 12,500 metres halfway through its flight from Montreal to Edmonton.
Called the Gimli Glider, the cause was a failure to convert from imperial to metric.
What Wikipedia did: we stood strong for our principles and fought to the Supreme Court of Turkey and won. This is what it means to treat freedom of expression as a principle rather than a slogan.
In education, it feels like it’s something huge…not only because of AI, but because AI is coming on a sequence of change pressures that universities can’t ignore anymore (digital, alternate pathways, systems inefficiencies, costs, growing distrust of higher ed).
Tragically, we've all become numb to Covid's death toll. Sometimes it takes a tangible comparison to shake us out of complacency.
I had such a moment today, when Covid deaths in the U.S. hit 875,000. That, as it happens, is the population of my city, San Francisco. Staggering.
XR technologies are not yet a ubiquitous feature of higher education, and for many institutions they may still be a "nice to have" add-on to traditional modes of teaching and working. #QuickPoll https://t.co/EGZQ3wNVuw