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 […]
Early last week, I found out about a unique non-profit, humanitarian organization called International Justice Mission (IJM). I was invited to an info session and, though I knew nothing about the organization other than a basic premise of helping people in developing countries, I attended with an open mind. What I found out about IJM impressed […]
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