Posts by Shawn Forde

The Vancouver riot and social media surveillance

I’m not going to try and explain the riot that happened after game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals. Maybe I should try. I’m interested in…

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Three Cups of … all the good titles have been taken

On Sunday, 60 Minutes aired a story about Greg Mortenson, his charity Central Asia Institute (CAI), and his books Three Cups of Tea and Stones into…

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More than Just a Game: Football Vs. Apartheid

The title of the post is actually a title of a book. I wrote a post about it on my blog a while back, but there…

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Right to Play Awareness Event at Norm Theatre

I just found out that there will be a Right to Play awareness event tomorrow at the Norm Theatre as part of their new Canadian Awareness…

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It’s Movember!

Movember has been around for a couple of years, but seems to be catching on more this year. I haven’t joined in. I just think I…

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Images of Poverty II

Florin already posted on this back in May, so I wasn’t going to write about it, but I received a tweet on my twitter a couple…

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Diamonds, Gold, Oil, Coffee and…Soccer Players

Another World Cup themed post…Yay! I have a longer version posted on my blog. I was motivated to write the post after attending a sport for…

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A Canadian Soccer Fan in Limbo

I just returned to Lesotho after a week and a half of travelling around South Africa to attend some World Cup matches. Overall, it was an…

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Age Cheating

The Under-17 and Under-20 Lesotho national football (soccer) teams made it through the first stage of qualification for their African youth championships and will move on…

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Life Skills and Sport for Development and Peace

Hello All, I’m new to Terry*.  I saw a link on the Terry* site for the SDP talk that took place prior to the Olympics, so…

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