Grading Latin tests while listening to Handel's Messiah is not a bad way to spend a Saturday afternoon. 🧐

The University of Manitoba is taking steps to preserve Indigenous languages, which are facing endangerment due to colonization, residential schools and forced assimilation. Lorena Sekwan Fontaine, head of the Indigenous Studies Department on CTV ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/artic…

Gaudeamus! Today Classics at UM Arts Faculty celebrated its scholarship and awards winners at our end of term party. And there was tiramisu.

As I have said for quite some time, Canada is in a state of decay, once slow, but now accelerating. Some of it is due to what I call the Canadian Disease; the rest is due to the current government. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

IMPORTANT: The Liberals grossly underfunded research. Canada has the 2nd lowest spending on research as a percentage of GDP in the G7. We must return to merit based grant funding with a focus on STEM to drive innovation and fuel our economy in this new hyper competitive world.

Today is the 36th Edmund G. Berry Lecture at University of Manitoba Department of Classics: Professor Luke Roman (Memorial University): 'A Florescence of Places: Humanist Inflections of Antiquity in Renaissance Italy' University of Manitoba UM Arts Faculty

Greeks and Carthaginians were rivals—they clashed frequently. This makes newly published research all the more surprising econ.st/3S1w4Uv Photo: Getty Images

Decline is a choice. And on April 28, we all have a choice to make. In 2014, the New York Times called Canada the “home of the world’s most affluent middle class.” No longer is that the case. One measure of this is per-capita GDP. “Canadians are effectively no better off today

Anthony Furey: Canada is in decline — a vote for Carney will ensure we stay that way nationalpost.com/opinion/anthon…

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Today is the first day of the CAC SCÉC conference at UWinnipeg Classics. My first panel of the day is 'Writing Roman Lives'.

I am at the Warfare in the Ancient World conference at UMN Duluth. Appropriately, the first paper is on the Homeric Iliad.

This afternoon I am giving my paper: 'Polybius, his Histories, and the Military Manual'

And now a session on animals in warfare--with two papers on elephants!

This afternoon there is another paper on animals in warfare, this time on camels!

Dreaming of granite. If you know, you know.

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And here we go. Winnipeg-Toronto-Chicago-London-Glasgow-Dundee-Aberdeen.

It's important to choose the right font when you are writing. The font you use influences the way you write. As you see the words appear on the screen the way a font looks makes you feel different things and it changes the next sentences even if you don't realize it.

My administrative leave relocation to Aberdeen is now complete.