Category Archives: Author Guest Posts
Literacy as a critical economic indicator
- Posted on March 28, 2012
- in Author Guest Posts, Literacy
- by STELLAA Blog
The unemployment rate. Inflation. Housing starts. Interest rates. Gross Domestic Product. Trade surplus. The national debt. We are daily besieged by countless indicators giving us a moment-by-moment analysis of where the Canadian economy stands against the rest of the world. I’d love to see another measure of our economic prospects, [...]
Continue reading...Delivering the tools to drive change by Author Guy Gavriel Kay
- Posted on February 27, 2012
- in Author Guest Posts, Education, Literacy, Reading
- by STELLAA Blog
There are a myriad of causes worthy of support around the world, and a world of heartbreak when one confronts how hopeless the tasks sometimes seem to be. I have always accepted the idea of teaching someone how to fish rather than giving a fish and walking away, but when [...]
Continue reading...The Shoe Project by Author Katherine Govier
- Posted on February 9, 2012
- in Author Guest Posts
- by STELLAA Blog
I wanted to work with immigrant women who had the potential to lead, honing their writing skills in English. Elizabeth Semmelhack, Senior Curator of the Bata Shoe Museum, wanted to create a small exhibition featuring ‘the shoes that brought me to Canada’. We met at a dinner party. Our two [...]
Continue reading...Sharing the Joys of Reading
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- in Author Guest Posts, Reading
- by STELLAA Blog
I think I was born an avid reader. I will read anything and everything: books, magazines, comic books, cookbooks, poetry, fiction, mysteries, nonfiction, cereal boxes… Whatever has words on it is fair game. I love being able to lose myself in a book and enter a different world, or to [...]
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