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A fine July evening
Last night Gil and I spent a fine July evening as guests on the patio of bullfrog_hawker's home, sipping Jim Beam and snacking on Salt & Simulated Ant flavour kettle chips. Typical in such company, the conversation was robust and ranged from how geographic information technologies are transforming cartography to how the British SAS survival book teaches that all ( Read more... ) -
Japan May 2010
The parents of two of Hannah's congregation members regularly conduct tours of Japan with an emphasis on art and architecture, and we plan to avail ourselves upon this service in spring of next year ( Read more... ) -
Shell: Shifting Sands
How Shell lost the goodwill of stakeholders.
By Matthew McClearn in Canadian BusinessIt is surely one of the most worn truisms of business: You’ve gotta live up to your commitments. It’s a throwaway line in stock speech at conferences and luncheons, and Shell Canada executives have long known when to employ it. To wit: “We accepted some years ago ( Read more... ) -
Sights and Sounds of the RCEN AGA
The national conference to which I've been obliquely referring was the Annual General Assembly (AGA) of the Canadian Environmental Network (RCEN). A set of YouTube videos providing an overview of the event is posted at http://www.youtube.com/user/RCEN1Read more... ) -
The Next Case
It’s fair to say that maintaining a web-log is a kind of craft. Which is to also say that it’s a kind of work. I’ve fallen out of the practice, out of the discipline, of blogging in recent weeks due to the overwhelming distraction of organizing the Canadian Environmental Network’s national conference earlier this month ( Read more... ) -
What I've been keeping from you
My eyes are burning. I feel a mixture of complete exhaustion and astonishment.
I'm exhausted as the aftermath of four and half days of on-site co-direction of the Canadian Environmental Network's Annual General AssemblyAnd I'm astonished that a file that has kept me from a complete night's sleep for the past 4 months and provoked such ( Read more... ) -
The Vacant Lot of Eden Municipal Wilderness Area
Bossy and Wrath, the magpie couple who reside in one of our spruce trees have another two juveniles hopping around our backyard this month. You might recall our introduction to them in this post from last spring. Consequently, whenever Hannah or I go out into the yard, or even appear in one of The Suite’s windows, one of the parent birds will ( Read more... ) -
The Mayan Economic Stimulus Package
A draft of this post has been sitting on my desktop since April 4th. I just capped it off this morning to post.
Under the terms of one of the side agreements of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the environment ministers of Canada, Mexico, and the United States make up the top-most echelon of an organization called the Council for ( Read more... ) -
The irony, the near-irony, you have no idea
My leg hurts. I’ll get around to telling you why. You know, ellipses and all that…
The Saturday after the revelation of the Las Vegas Cigarette at the Playboy Club, a medical nurse visited The Suite to administer another health questionnaire and take blood and urine samples for analysis. The results would be sent to the insurance underwriter to ( Read more... ) -
Compassion
It has been tough finding the time to post lately. l am chairing the organizing committee of the annual national conference of the Canadian Environmental Network - a profoundly distracting endeavor. It's been affecting my sleep pattern and keeping most bloggable thoughts out of my mind. (Alternatively, I suppose, I could’ve been blogging about ( Read more... )