I wrote this a couple of years ago, and for some reason it never got posted. It is still relevant, so today seemed like a good time to share it. Canada introduced a new budget a week ago, first one in two years. Needless to say there have been some changes. A massive deficit unlike […]
Some thematic humor today.
Media reports say that Justin Trudeau will shuffle his cabinet today. Some under-performing ministers will be demoted and others removed completely. He is reluctant to make these changes of course, because the necessity for them makes him look bad. In November 2015, just before Trudeau appointed his first cabinet, I offered these thoughts. They are […]
I wrote this piece five years ago and for some reason never posted it. Today seemed like a good day to share this. Sometimes I find myself in unusual situations. Like last week when I spent a few hours with a group of German Pentecostal pastors. I’m neither German, Pentecostal nor a pastor, but I […]
This post is from the Spring of 2016, and I realized today that I still haven’t been back to the Portland waterfront to see if the sign was still there and to ask the questions. I know life is busy, but there’s really no excuse for that. Probably the sign is long gone by now. […]
Even though they upped it to 280, the principle holds.
I was looking for something on the lighter side today and every cartoon I looked at was cat-themed. I’ll take that as an invitation to share and maybe get serious tomorrow. I hope at least one of these made you chuckle!
Canada’s federal public servants were shifted to a new extended health plan on July first. You probably don’t care, but bear with me on this one. The transition has not been smooth. These may be expected hiccups of moving hundreds of thousands of people to a new plan, or it may be a disaster in […]
.. or is it? Yesterday I mentioned that I had wanted to link to the online clock that showed how long Ottawa’s LRT had been out of operation, but I couldn’t find it. Today someone put it up. The clock I remember was cumulative, showing how long the light rail service had been out of […]
Almost four years after its launch, Ottawa residents have become used to the unreliability of the city’s light rapid transit system, the LRT. As I write this, there is no timeline for the train to return to service. Proponents of the train may feel I am overly harsh with my criticism. When the system works, […]
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