Paul in Ontario
| 15:09 UK time, Thursday, 26 April 2007
I鈥檓 Paul Rousseau and I live in Windsor Ontario Canada, which is across the Detroit River from Detroit Michigan. I am a dual citizen of the USA and Canada and where I live enables me to stay in touch with things on both sides of the border. I am an educator and teach courses in political science at the University of Windsor.
I鈥檓 have a deep passion for things political and after teaching for 27 years at a community college where I could not teach political science course, I am in my groove right now. I encourage my students to at least listen to WHYS and other great public affairs programming that we can get from WDET, USA public radio, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and TV Ontario
My other passion is helping people, through teaching, coaching facilitation and consulting, to maximize their creative potential. Our ability to generate new ideas and solutions are the only ways that we will be able to make this world better.
Windsor is a great city that is currently going through a rough spot with the North American Automobile industry moving off shore. We have a unique relationship with the people living in southeast Michigan and it is the only place in North America where so many Canadians and American interact on a day-to-day basis though work and social activities.
I really don鈥檛 have an average day. When I am teaching, I am on the Internet a lot keeping in touch with my students, researching, reading news and keeping up with the Macintosh computer world.
I was fortunate to experience Ros, Rabiya and he other WHYS team in November of 2006 when they did WHYS out of WDET and I imagine myself teaching my political science classes using the WHYS format. What a great way of immediately building awareness of the interconnectedness of all of us humans across the globe.
There are many things I like about WHYS. One of them is the energy of the program. It鈥檚 fresh, accommodating of a wide range of political views, challenging, and informative. I like that 鈥渢raveling show鈥 idea and I hope that it returns to Detroit again.
Would be nice to develop an 鈥渆ducational鈥 component, like study guides and web resources that would encourage more teachers to 鈥減lug into鈥 the program. That may be hard to do since the content of the show is so 鈥渟pur of the moment.鈥 Perhaps adding a resources list at the end of the day鈥檚 blog would be sufficient.
I really like it when you have teenagers and twenty something鈥檚 from all over talking about their view of the world that we 鈥渂oomers鈥 have created. I do hope that they will do a much better job.
Thanks to all who make WHYS work.
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