myEWB RSS Feed: Posts http://my.ewb.ca/api/posts/Any Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:29:24 -0500 This feed lists the front page posts for myEWB (filtered by the tag or category 'Any') as visible to a user who is not signed in. <![CDATA[Steph Power's Question on Aid: Harper Responds]]> http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73922 http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73922 no 5 no no Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:48:48 -0500 private@emailaddress.com (Brian Magee) Harper talks aid on Youtube. Share your thoughts on his brief response to Steph Power's question.

]]> <![CDATA[Redefining Happiness]]> http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73901 http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73901 no 0 no yes Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:20:38 -0500 private@emailaddress.com (Annelies Tjebbes) This is a workshop that I developed and presented at the UBC chapter about a month ago. It spawned out of my desire to have members really understand what I mean when I say that the people that I met in Burkina Faso are happy.

]]> <![CDATA[Canadian Forces and EWB]]> http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73872 http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73872 no 1 no no Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:11:48 -0500 private@emailaddress.com (Adam Ross) What does EWB have to offer the Canadian Forces?

Y-a-t'il quelque chose que nous pourrons offrir au Forces Canadiennes?

]]> <![CDATA[1st Annual World Water Week from March 22 - 26]]> http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73866 http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73866 no 0 no yes Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:12:32 -0500 private@emailaddress.com (Lesley Foulds) Student groups at UofT are collaborating to host the 1st Annual World Water Week from March 22 - 26 at the University of Toronto!

]]> <![CDATA[Africa.com - a new venture to change your view of the continent]]> http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73862 http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73862 no 0 no no Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:16:34 -0500 private@emailaddress.com (Jamaal Montasser) "With our 200 specially curated videos, Africa.com will be a multi-media portal through which the world will get to know Africa, as well as a way for Africans to get to know one another. "

]]> <![CDATA[CAN150 Skype conversation]]> http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73819 http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73819 no 0 no no Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:19:28 -0500 private@emailaddress.com (Steph Power) TOnight at 8:00 p.m. EST Tanner and I will be having an open skype conversation about what EWB'ers think is important for discussion at CAN150

]]> <![CDATA[Article of the Week - Market Days]]> http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73808 http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73808 no 1 no yes Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:36:43 -0500 private@emailaddress.com (Colleen Duncan) As I am looking through my pictures trying to find one that I'm inspired by to write about today, I continue to be drawn back to this picture. It's not my best picture by far. It is too busy. There is no focus. There is too many different colours. It looks noisy. But I think that's why I'm drawn to it. This is a rural Ghanaian market on a typical market day; noisy, busy, colourful, without obvious order or focus.

]]> <![CDATA[La queue devant les toilettes la plus longue au monde - The world longest Toilet queue - Montréal ]]> http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73770 http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73770 no 0 no yes Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:51:08 -0500 private@emailaddress.com (Thomas Goyette-Levac) Salut gang de Poly, McGill et Concordia,

Dans le cadre de la journée mondiale de l'eau, le 22 mars prochain, quatre organismes internationaux pour l'eau organisent une queue devant les toilettes pour revendiquer l'accès à l'eau et l'assainissement et sensibiliser le public.
http://www.worldtoiletqueue.org/eng/queuers/joinsuccess

]]> <![CDATA[Job Opportunties]]> http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73724 http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73724 no 0 no no Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:14:04 -0500 private@emailaddress.com (Ian Froude) Hi folks,
HJ O'Connell was a conference sponsor and is a long-time partner of the MUN chapter. They asked me to pass these job opportunities along. There are two jobs below.
Ian

]]> <![CDATA[Do you need something translated? ]]> http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73719 http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73719 no 2 no no Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:36:47 -0500 private@emailaddress.com (Allison Langille) Hey all,

Wanted to remind you that the National Translation team is here for you to use! The team was established to help bring EWB closer to having everything in French and English. We translate requests from the the African teams, the National Office, program leadership teams such as Youth Engagement or Advocacy and YES chapters!

Read more...

]]> <![CDATA[Traduction pour ISF/Translation for EWB!]]> http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73716 http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73716 no 0 no yes Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:04:56 -0500 private@emailaddress.com (Allison Langille) Hello wonderful EWBers!

It's that time where I am starting to think about the summer - warm weather, outdoor sports, drinks with umbrellas in them and...translation!

Join the National Translation Team now: allisonlangille@ewb.ca

]]> <![CDATA[Its EWBBC time!]]> http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73697 http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73697 no 6 no no Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:47:05 -0500 private@emailaddress.com (Josh Vanwyck) We're on a role this week! With a new co-anchor, value adventures, a question of the week and more!

]]> <![CDATA[VOTE for EWB's question for the Prime Minister!]]> http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73640 http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73640 no 7 no no Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:34:28 -0500 private@emailaddress.com (James Haga) http://bit.ly/dwDNGA

]]> <![CDATA[Auditorium Presentations]]> http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73622 http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73622 no 2 no yes Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:56:11 -0500 private@emailaddress.com (Carlie Scalesse) Ready-made presentations for ya!

]]> <![CDATA[Interesting Take-Aways from EWB Day(s)]]> http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73621 http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73621 no 3 no no Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:54:47 -0500 private@emailaddress.com (Jamaal Montasser) EWB Day(s) is officially over...but some chapters are still rocking out and will have events going until mid-way through next week!I spent part of EWB Day with the University of Toronto chapter. One of the pieces of their EWB Day involve some atreet theatre about CIDA and the G8/G20. Now let me tell you, I'd never heard of anything like this within EWB so I was very curious what the results or learning would be.

]]> <![CDATA[Ghana: RealeBooks]]> http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73606 http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73606 no 2 no no Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:23:10 -0500 private@emailaddress.com (Colleen Duncan) The International School of Art, Business, and Technology in Ghana is now publishing books online - ebooks - written by Ghanaians for a Ghanaian audience.

]]> <![CDATA["Taking African Business Global"]]> http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73605 http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73605 no 0 no yes Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:16:31 -0500 private@emailaddress.com (Colleen Duncan) An interesting article about a Ghanaian entrepreneur, educated in America, who returned to Ghana to start a successful IT business: Soft Tribe.

]]> <![CDATA[Get Outside Your World Contest! April 15th, 2010! ]]> http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73571 http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73571 no 0 no no Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:57:10 -0500 private@emailaddress.com (Min Feng)

April 15th, 2010!

We're about 1 month away from the deadline to the "Get Outside Your World" contest! Entries have been coming in, but we need help! We need YOU chapter members to be involved! Help spread the word to your siblings, to your friends and relatives still in high school, tell them that there are great prizes involved!

]]> <![CDATA[Along the lines of School Outreach...ChangeEducate]]> http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73563 http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73563 no 0 no no Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:02:31 -0500 private@emailaddress.com (Annelies Tjebbes) A group of Duke students are creating an educational DVD set that will be distributed to classrooms nationwide. The DVD will have a curriculum on poverty education and social entrepreneurship for high school students to be distributed nationwide. The DVD portion features educational lessons on the causes, perpetuators, and developmental solutions to poverty, in addition to inspirational stories of student social entrepreneurs around the country.

]]> <![CDATA[Canada's foreign aid record nothing to brag about]]> http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73557 http://my.ewb.ca/home/ShowPost/73557 no 0 no no Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:20:08 -0500 private@emailaddress.com (James Haga) Check out this article by Don Cayo in today's Vancouver Sun. The focus is on spending commitments for foreign aid, and whether Canada will actually follow through with promises in light of the recent budget, which will see a freeze on foreign aid spending by 2011.

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