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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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