Category: News & Commentary

Verify the Veracity of Advice You Receive by Email — Even When It Comes from Trusted Sources

Bad infor­ma­tion flows around any­where, even within net­works of emer­gency man­age­ment pro­fes­sion­als. Just yes­ter­day, there was an arti­cle cred­ited to Doug Coup fly­ing around the email sys­tem. It came to me from an indi­vid­ual in my branch, who got it from some­one at another branch with a lot of emer­gency response expe­ri­ence, who got it […]

I Don’t Suffer From A Knife Addiction

I love good cook­ing knives. Some say I suf­fer from a knife addic­tion, but I’m not so sure about it. Yes, I have strong desires for more knives, dif­fer­ent knives, all in a quest to expe­ri­ence what else the arti­sans and crafts­men of steel have cre­ated to make cook­ing more enjoy­able, more ele­gant, and flat-out […]

Tuesday July 13th, 2010 in News & Commentary | 3 Comments »

Of Course China has Spies in Canada!

The Direc­tor of CSIS, Canada’s intel­li­gence & espi­onage agency (read: “spy agency”), said a num­ber of inter­est­ing things in his inter­view with the CBC. The one that has gen­er­ated a fair bit of media buzz and which has ruf­fled the feath­ers in Ottawa and British Colum­bia is his state­ment that China has spies in Canada […]

Thursday June 24th, 2010 in News & Commentary | Comments Off

In Search of Excellence — but Y’Aint Gonna Find It in Government!

Gov­ern­ment per­forms a wide range of absolutely essen­tial ser­vices, and many pub­lic ser­vants work very hard. How­ever, that alone does not an excel­lent orga­ni­za­tion make. At least in the back-office side of things — if not always the front ser­vice coun­ters every­one in the pub­lic inter­acts with — I see peo­ple putting in long hours and […]

Thursday June 3rd, 2010 in News & Commentary | 3 Comments »

Ever Considered Not Using an Office Chair at Work?

I’m get­ting old enough now that I actu­ally spend time think­ing about how to take bet­ter care of myself. One thing that’s been both­er­ing me lately has been my chair at the office. Sim­ply put, the one I use right now sucks, the one before it sucked worse, and the one before that was about […]

Tuesday May 4th, 2010 in News & Commentary | 1 Comment »

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