Investigate the two options given. Which one requires a cultural commissar to ensure you’re doing it right? I think most people are still going to pick “A” in private, but due to negative pressure and threat in society might choose “B” in public. It is only your integrity that is
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Scripturient: More Misogyny at Council
At Monday night’s council (Jan. 31), there was yet one more example of the misogyny male members of council exhibit towards their female peers. And, as you might have expected, it involved Councillor Madigan, our mayor’s most loyal lapdog supporter who never seems to be called out for his puerile
Continue readingScripturient: What is Council Trying to Hide?
In an article in CollingwoodToday titled 18 simple rules? Council receives draft of new Code of Conduct, we learn that council is looking to update and revise its current Code of Conduct. Again. The article says, A new set of 18 rules aims to help town councillors navigate the sometimes-complicated
Continue readingScripturient: An Honourable Mayor?
Mayor Brian Saunderson has announced he is running for nomination to the provincial Progressive Conservative party in our riding to be able to stand as the candidate for MPP. According to a story in Collingwood Today, he is not stepping down from his role as mayor, and will not do
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Chaulk and Cheese #nlpoli
If the members of the House of Assembly vote to accept the reports fromtwo statutory officers as presented they will have to accept that Chris Mitchelmore committed an act that does not rise to any reasonable definition of gross mismanagement. If they accept that he has committed such an act,
Continue readingAkaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: Advisory: GOPAC Thanks our Outgoing CEO
Serving as CEO of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption was one of the great honours of my life, and I am immensely proud of all we achieved together over the past six years, in every region of the world.
Continue readingScripturient: True Integrity? Not The Block…
There’s an interesting article online called, 13 Traits of People With True Integrity that opens with the (unintentionally?) funny line: Integrity, for those who are not familiar, is quite important. After you guffaw at that bit, the author continues, “People who have a strong sense of integrity are sadly a
Continue readingScripturient: The test of integrity
I’ve been complaining all this term that Collingwood’s standing committee system is broken. It is redundant, ineffective and expensive. It continues in use only because it was the brainchild of the interim CAO who The Block worship. But it is about to come under a test: one that will determine
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: People Should Stop Attacking The Margaret Wente
It doesn’t matter that she hasn’t read Naomi Klein’s new book about climate change. It doesn’t matter because the internet of things. It doesn’t matter because most of what’s important in the world is in the comment section of news stories, not the stories themselves. We all know journalists are
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Can We Stop Treating Women Like Meat? Now? Maybe? Please?
Women-as-sex-meat, 2014 edition begins now. The #FacePalm is appropriate. It’s nothing new, but when can media just stop. Maybe when it’s no longer profitable? We need a revolution in media by boycotting all venues that perpetuate the women-as-sex-meat theme. Here’s what’s new, this time with Eugenie Bouchard and Cate Blanchett.
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Thriving, not surviving
Thriving, not surviving the slow cello accompaniment wasn’t haunting it wasn’t doubtful it was the soundtrack for the path she was on and it was trapped in a coda trying to find some gravitas instead of just being in touch with her own integrity it was the difference between surviving
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: The Content of Their Character
Represent! I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. – Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream, 1963 What has been most
Continue readingKen Chapman: Edward Snowden, Freedom and the Media’s Manufacture of Meaning
There is no doubt there is a need for fear, or at least anxiety, over our government’s secret intrusion into our online personal lives. Yes the Government of Canada too, not just the United States, is doing this.Reassurances from those perpetuati…
Continue readingKen Chapman: Edward Snowden, Freedom and the Media’s Manufacture of Meaning
There is no doubt there is a need for fear, or at least anxiety, over our government’s secret intrusion into our online personal lives. Yes the Government of Canada too, not just the United States, is doing this. Reassurances from those perpetuating this travesty say that the surveillance is only
Continue readingKen Chapman: Edward Snowden, Freedom and the Media’s Manufacture of Meaning
There is no doubt there is a need for fear, or at least anxiety, over our government’s secret intrusion into our online personal lives. Yes the Government of Canada too, not just the United States, is doing this. Reassurances from those perpetuating this travesty say that the surveillance is only
Continue readingAkaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: Akaash Maharaj: Margaret Thatcher’s Verdict on the Liberal Party of Canada
My article in the Globe and Mail: My one conversation with Margaret Thatcher about the Liberal Party of Canada began with a chill in the air, and ended with our host mopping his brow. We were all polite, but there were daggers behind the smiles and venom coiled around the
Continue readingAkaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: Akaash Maharaj – Advisory: New Leadership for the GOPAC Global Secretariat
I am enormously grateful to the Board of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption for their confidence in naming me their Executive Director, and I will work tirelessly to justify their faith. I feel deeply privileged to have a chance to work with GOPAC’s global alliance of democratically elected
Continue readingAkaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: Akaash Maharaj – Advisory: New Leadership for the GOPAC Global Secretariat
I am enormously grateful to the Board of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption for their confidence in naming me their Executive Director, and I will work tirelessly to justify their faith. I feel deeply privileged to have a chance to work with GOPAC’s global alliance of democratically elected
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Who’s Running BC?
It has been a month of amateurish politics starting with the government posting the auditor-general’s job. Then this week the government backed down several steps to keep from ejecting the well-respected A-G John Doyle from his chair with an attempt at saving face by changing the legislation surrounding his appointment.
Continue readingImpolitical: Brooks with a stinker column
A real head shaker of a column today from David Brooks as the U.S. campaign enters its last week: “The Upside of Opportunism.” Basically, Brooks writes that Romney is more likely to get stuff done if he’s elected President because Republicans in the House will go along with him. And
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