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About Michael K. Barbour

Michael K. Barbour is the Director of Faculty Development and a Professor of Instructional Design for the College of Education and Health Sciences at Touro University California. He has been involved with K-12 online learning in a variety of countries for well over a decade as a researcher, teacher, course designer and administrator. Michael's research focuses on the effective design, delivery and support of K-12 online learning, particularly for students located in rural jurisdictions.

Royal Canadian Legion – US Branch 25 August Meeting

As we are still unable to meet in person, but also have business that we need to attend to, we will be holding an August business meeting for the membership of US Branch #25 representing the San Francisco Bay Area. The meeting will be held online using Zoom on Tuesday, 04 August at 7pm. The dress for the meeting is casual (i.e., Legion attire is not required).

The details on how to join the meeting can be obtained by e-mailing mkbarbour@gmail.com

The agenda, minutes from the previous meeting, and various written reports will be e-mailed prior to the event.

If you have not used Zoom, you can download the program to your computer by visiting https://zoom.us/support/download (there are also links on that page to download it to your phone or tablet). To join the meeting follow the steps outlined in this video – https://youtu.be/9isp3qPeQ0E – or the instructions under the “How do I join a Zoom session?” portion of this website https://www.aarp.org/home-family/personal-technology/info-2020/how-to-use-zoom.html

We hope to see everyone there…

Michael Barbour
Vice President, US Branch #25
Royal Canadian Legion

New deadline! Get your entries in this weekend.

An item from a fellow Canadian organization in the Bay Area.


Last weekend to win!

The Moose Colouring Contest has been extended until the end of this weekend.

Beat the heat and spend some quality time with your crayons, colouring pens and pencils to colour or re-design the DML Moose. Or, break out those watercolours and oil paints on a fresh canvas and create your own moose.

Details below. Submit for your chance to win fun prizes!

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Last chance: deadline extended!
3 categories. 3 prizes per category. All ages welcome.

MOOSE COLOURING + DESIGN CONTEST! Many of you are used to seeing the DML’s beloved Moose mascot at our Canada Day celebrations, but since we couldn’t be together in person this year – and with our moose in need of repair and some fresh paint – we invite you to bring the moose to life!

The DML Moose arrived in California in 2001 from Toronto, after a city-wide moose sculpture exhibit came to a close and someone connected Groupe Telecom (who owned the exhibit’s “data moose”) with the DML. In this video, meet the Moose and Michael Worry – longtime board member and friend of the DML and founder of Nuvation – who has graciously housed and transported our Moose over the past two decades.

New deadline: Sunday, June 12th

You can win awesome prizes* over three categories (see details in each category description).

Contest duration:
July 1st to 12th, 2020

How to enter:

  1. Prepare entries in any of the 3 categories below, as many times as you like. We will be awarding 3 winners in each category: first prize, runner up, as well as a five-and-under prize.
  2. Scan or take a digital photo of your entry.
  3. Submit your entry, by email, in jpeg/png/pdf format to: webmoose@digitalmooselounge.com

CATEGORIES:

#1 – Colour the Moose Challenge: Choose your own colours for the original Digital Moose design  DOWNLOAD CATEGORY ONE

1st prize – Province of Canada Toque plus choice of DML collector pin
Shout out – Groovygurls gift card – $20
5 & Under – Groovygurls kids mask

#2 – Design the Moose Challenge: Choose your own colours AND designs – we’ve provided the moose outline. DOWNLOAD CATEGORY TWO

1st prize – Handmade Cowichan Toque
Shout out – Groovygurls gift card – $30
5 & Under – Groovygurls kids mask

#3 – My Moose Challenge: Draw/create/design/paint/colour your own Moose art. CATEGORY THREE (no download for this, as you will create your own moose image).

1st prize –  iskwē ticket package for two (via Stanford Live)
Shout out – Canadian wine package
5 & Under – Groovygurls kids mask

Once you have submitted your entries by email, share your creation with the world using #MeetMyDMLMoose. We can’t wait to see what everyone creates!

Note about prizes: Prize distribution will be discussed with winners. Depending on their location, prizes might be able to be picked up by winners in the Bay Area. For winners outside the Bay Area – and especially outside the US – we reserve the right to replace the prize due to delivery/mailout challenges.

#MeetMyDMLMoose
Meet our Judges

Our judging team includes two esteemed creative Canadians:

Scott Boms is a cross-disciplinary design generalist, author, educator and speaker. He also designed our DML collector pins in honour of Canada’s 150th and for the DML’s 20th birthday last year, that many of you are lucky to own!

Charlie Pachter is one of Canada’s leading contemporary artists – a painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, historian, and lecturer. As a painter, he is known for his artwork of the queen, moose and maple leaf icons.

https://www.digitalmooselounge.org/blog/meetmydmlmoose-colouring-contest

15% off Air Canada

And, congratulations to the two raffle prize winners during the DML’s Canadian Trivia Extravaganza event on the weekend: Michael Barbour and Jane Graham each received a return ticket to a major Canadian hub, courtesy of Air Canada.

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A Decade of Transformation + Upcoming Members Event: Insider’s Guide to Mergers & Acquisitions

A newsletter from one of our fellow Canadian organizations in the Bay Area.


Canada transformed itself as a global tech player over the past decade. How can Canadians everywhere help sustain momentum now?

Together with our Foundational Partners, C100’s team has published a white paper on 10-year trends on investment and talent in Canada. We tracked the incredible momentum and put out a call to action as we enter what has already been a challenging new decade for Canadian entrepreneurs. So what did we find?

  • Consistent VC investment in Canada growth year-over-year, with the greatest uptick ever in 2019 with 40% growth
  • Canadian VC five- & ten-year returns are closing the gap with U.S. counterparts
  • Large funds ($100M+) grew significantly from 3 in 2014 to 14 now (avg. size grew 52%)
  • Canada now welcomes 5x the number of skilled immigrants as a percentage of its population than does the U.S. and Canadian cities have more available workers per startup AND per dollar raised than the U.S.
  • But, Canada still has some hurdles to clear to compete for top talent. Canadian tech executives earn, on average, $87,000 less/year than their US counterparts.

Macro-risks are ever present, but opportunities abound for Canada to lead in the next decade. Community is everything! Have a read, celebrate the momentum, and help C100 get Global Canadians engaged in helping  rebuild the economy back home.

UPCOMING VIRTUAL ROUNDTABLES

[C100 Member Exclusive]  An Insider’s Guide to M&A

Thursday, July 16 @ 9am PT/12pm ET 

Join Corporate Development and M&A leaders from Shopify and Facebook, as well as a 48Hrs in the Valley founder whose company was acquired by Xero to understand both sides of the “acquisition table”. Hear why companies should be building relationships with corporate development teams even if not thinking about an acquisition in the near future, the challenges of combining different cultures during integration, and how CEOs can work with acquirers to build bigger and more successful businesses. Joining this discussion are Bram Sugarman, Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at ShopifyLara Cumberland, VP M&A Integration at Facebook; and Jamie Shulman, Co-Founder and CEO of Hubdoc which was acquired by Xero in 2018. This session will be moderated by Terry Doyle, GM International at Checkr.

BECOME A MEMBER & MAKE AN IMPACT

C100’s mission is to support, inspire, and connect the most promising Canadian entrepreneurial leaders through mentorship, investment, partnership, and talent.

Our members form the preeminent, global community of visionary Canadian entreprenenurs, operators and investors. Each brings something rich and unique to our ecosystem and fuels C100’s role in supporting global Canadians as they build high-impact careers and remarkable organizations. 

Play a more active role the C100 ecosystem and benefit from opportunities for personal and professional development. Consider supporting C100’s mission as a member.

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October Crisis! – Memories Wanted!

An item from the Legion Magazine.


October Crisis
Front Lines
Rise in military contracting hides human, monetary costs

Rise in military contracting hides
human, monetary costs

Story by Stephen J. Thorne

The United States military is spending an escalating proportion of its massive budget on contractors with little accountability for where and how the money is spent, says a new report.

The practice opens doors to overspending and corruption and hides war’s true costs, both monetary and human, says the report from Brown’s University’s Costs of War project, based in Providence, Rhode Island.

The Pentagon handed contractors US$370 billion last year alone—more than half the total U.S. defence budget of $676 billion and a whopping 164 per cent more than it spent in 2001 when it launched the post-9/11 war on terror, says the document written by Heidi Peltier, a project director.

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Military Milestones
HMCS Labrador explores the Arctic

HMCS Labrador explores the Arctic

Story by Sharon Adams

Commissioned on July 8, 1954, HMCS Labrador was the first warship to sail across the Northwest Passage, returning to home port in Halifax via the Panama Canal, the first to circumnavigate North America in a single voyage.

But the Wind-class icebreaker’s biggest contributions were mapping the waterways and establishing Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic. At the time, it was feared U.S. icebreakers would move into the Arctic, jeopardizing Canada’s claims.

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Front Lines | NEW PODCAST!
This week in history
This week in history

July 10, 1940
The Battle of Britain begins.

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HearingLife Canada
Legion Magazine