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A report from a former Lieutenant General in the Canadian Armed Forces seems destined to be ignored…. again. Apparently, there are as many military personnel in Ottawa’s National Defense HQ as there are on active duty in the navy or regular force army. During the last six years, Command and Support has grown at four…
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Once again the fine people at Maclean”s have answered the perennial question, “What shall I write about today?” Thank you very much nice people. As you can see from the title, this post is all about tech and how we use it. Specifically, it’s about portable technology and how we use it to abuse those…
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Okay, so I know this may be a bit of a departure from the usual, but the usual is usually over-rated. I’m a Zombie fan. Not Rob Zombie. Not Voodoo zombies. I’m talking contagion driven, George A. Romero ZOMBIES. Ever since I first saw Night of the Living Dead many, many years ago, I’ve been…
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Any of you who work in a corporate environment have probably at some point encountered the S.M.A.R.T. guidelines for decision making. The acronym stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-bound. You can see why I think perhaps the government uses something different. Some of the most outstanding examples of this are the “Wars” the…
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Earlier tonight, I was watching a talk delivered by British MP Rory Stewart about why it’s time to get out of Afghanistan. That’s not the subject of this post. It was a phrase in his closing remarks which caught my attention. Mr. Stewart said, “If we accept that we cannot do all that we pretend,…
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A woman in Dallas TX has been charged with felony child abuse. So what else is new right? Well, this one is little more depraved than usual. In terms of pure evil, she’s the kind of person that bumps Charles Manson out of last place in the human race. When her two year old daughter…
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I was just reading an article on Maclean’s app about how indifferent most Canadians are to the threat of terrorism. The implication being our need to take it more seriously. The fact is, we shouldn’t. Aside from a couple of highly publicized “threats”, Canada isn’t exactly a commonly declared terroist target. It isn’t amping up…
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A couple of years ago, we bought our daughter a netbook to use for school. She was thrilled and happy as a clam… for about a month. Just long enough that we couldn’t return it. It seems she might have been mistaken in what she needed from her portable computer. As well as running office…
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Where I am at the moment, there is less than an hour until the end of rentals at Blockbuster Canada. It’s not easy for me to put aside my anger and look at the bigger picture. Still, I’d like to share a few thoughts about what it has meant, and will mean going forward. For…
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I recently visited TED Conversations. It’s one of my favorite places to go when I’m looking for things to write about. They came through for me again. The thread I was following concerned the need for education reform. I have a daughter who recently graduated high school and is entering college as we speak. So…
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