According to my calendar I had only one meeting Tuesday. So I made plans on how I would spend the rest of the day. You can guess the rest. More than one meeting. Phone calls, Texts, Unexpected emails that required an immediate response. And my carefully planned day turned out very different from what I […]
Why shouldn’t a former president face criminal charges?. Or even a sitting president? Isn’t equality under the law one of the central tenets of American justice? Donald Trump in turns himself in at a New York courthouse today to face charges – exactly what he doesn’t know yet – and his appearance will be the […]
It’s Monday and my brain for some reason wants to shut down. Gray weather can do that. Spring sunshine and warmer temperatures can’t be that far away, but there are probably other factors preventing me from delivering deep insights today. I’ve been reading too much I spent my weekend reading about government ethics, both scholarly […]
Looking for something from the archives that would fit my mood today, I can across this one from April 2015. I’ve spent most of my weekend reading and writing about ethics in political life, or perhaps the lack of it. This was a reminder that there are still principled people in public life. Canadian politician James […]
I was waiting for later in the day to share with you the best April Fools jokes for 2023. Problem is, I can’t find any that I think are particularly funny. Well, maybe the one about Tinder banning photos of men holding fish. Who knew that was a thing? Why isn’t it true? And how […]
It was a news alert in my email inbox. “California to require half of all heavy trucks to be electric by 2035.” My first thought was, front half or back half? My next thought was: left half or right half? Yes, my mind is rather warped at times. After that, I began to wonder how […]
…would a government that has had several ethical challenges, led by a Prime Minister who has twice been found to have violated Parliament’s ethics rules, appoint as Ethics Commissioner the sister-in-law of a cabinet minister who himself has been cited for ethics violations. If I was a fiction writer, I would reject that idea as […]
For his first Christmas I bought my grandson some Mini -sticks. He was too young for miniature hockey sticks of course, but I was looking to the future. And it isn’t as if his parents could buy them in Africa. For his second Christmas I bought him another stick, figuring he needed one to go […]
For a few minutes on Saturday night I was a teenager again and just discovering the power of rock and roll. Chilliwack brought the 1970s and 1980s to Ottawa. Nostalgia is a powerful force, which explains why the thousand seat hall was sold out for a band that hasn’t had a hit in about 40 […]
This was a familiar scene in downtown Ottawa last Thursday and Friday – snipers, presumably American, on the top of buildings. US President Joe Biden was in town and there were extra precautions. Walking through the downtown core you felt like someone was watching you. Because they were.
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