Mapping Toronto’s Most Bizarre Intersections For most people from Toronto, when they think of what their city is known for, many amazing things come to mind, but another is the many busy and confusing intersections. […]
It’s been three years since I wrote up my top ten list geography books in a post called 50 Years a Geographer: My Top Ten books about Geography. This list is a follow up to […]
The 6th annual GoGeomatics 2019 Back to School Socials have been a tremendous success. After coming off the success of GeoIgnite 2019 National Conference in Ottawa. Our groups and group leaders across the country came […]
Access to timely and quality health care is an important determinant of health and well-being. Despite universal health coverage in Canada, there exists socio-demographic, financial and physical geographic barriers that limit the accessibility to health […]
For the last five years, I have annually had the opportunity to spend time in Iqaluit, Canada’s fastest growing community in Canada’s fastest growing territory or province. On arrival, I check out the selection of new books at Arctic Ventures and the screening of new movies about the North. This year, there was the chance to see John Walker’s Passage and to buy a copy of Darrel Varga’s book of the same name in the Canadian Cinema series. […]
What is a data cube and how is it used for big data analytics? How does a data cube work with remotely sensed data? Before writing this article I had never heard of a data […]
The College of Geographic Sciences (COGS) held the 2017 COGS Industry Expo on March 23 in Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia. COGS has a long-standing tradition of hosting an annual career fair and inviting industry professionals to […]
At the end of last month, John Wian hosted the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the CANMAP Research Institute in Bridgetown. The CANMAP Research Institute was formed in the early 1980’s by John, with input […]