At the HRIA conference in Edmonton
It’s day two at the HRIA conference. This is some of our team posing yesterday at our booth. We’re at booth #410 just in case you want to come visit…
Interesting connection between the experience of awe and the percieved flow of time
In this video, Melanie Rudd explains the results of some research at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Do you have an experience of too little time? Are you time hungry? …
At the beach with Glenna
Dallas road: coffee.
Midnight
Our good cat friend.
Empathy and good design
IDEO is a world leader in product design. The founder David Kelley tells us why empathy is so important to good design…
Andrew Coyne: instance of racism #3
This is my third exploration of racism in the writings of Andrew Coyne, while writing for Postmedia News. Today’s argument will focus on the discourse of denial…
New team member, Jenn Lofgren
Please join us in welcoming the newest member of our team, Jenn Lofgren. Jenn’s background includes over fifteen years of experience in coaching…
Andrew Coyne: instance of racism #2
This is my second exploration of racism in the writings of Andrew Coyne with Postmedia News. This argument will refer to three articles written by Coyne in January…
Webinar demonstration of an EQ assessment debrief: Friday Feb 8
Join us live on Friday, February 8th, to watch a debrief using a workplace report…
Andrew Coyne: instance of racism #1
This is my first argument toward the conclusion that journalist Andrew Coyne made claims that were racist. The remarks by Coyne that I will focus on for today’s argument were…
Andrew Coyne dismisses multiple allegations of racist writing
A little while ago I posted a review of several journalists’ positions on the Idle No Moremovement. With the exception of Ibbitson, all of the journalists I reviewed positioned themselves as experts and went on to express views in ways that displayed a lack of good judgement…
The social relevance of journalism
There is an old idea that journalism has an important role in democracy. I kind of believe this. But the problem is that the view of journalism subscribed to by the old guard, is shrinking the role of journalism in our democracies…
Dinosaur journalists and Idle No More
I challenge white journalists to tell us how much they think they know about about the history and relationship between settlers and Indigenous people. Judging by their recent strong opinions about First Nations governance, Indigenous land rights, the Idle No More movement, Attawapiskat, and Chief Spence, they are all experts…
People died for this right
I’ve heard countless pious prescriptions to do such and such, because “people fought and died for this right.” There are many versions of this cliché. They are all clichés. And they are all terribly lazy…
Winter is almost over
Becky on skies at Panorama.
Late night
Late night at Oddfellows with Sarah and Billy.
The bus is cool
“Free handles. It is big and long. It has its own lane. Yeah. It is street.” This video ad is seriously awesome…
Understanding bias
I see bias everywhere. Yes we all struggle with our biases. I wish the reporters, editors and owners at the Globe and Mail would own up to theirs. There’s bias in the conversation our biased reporter has with his biased editor, bias in the call list he develops for his story, bias in his choice…
Sadness
Becky prepares for journey.
New neighbourhood
After dinner walk.
Getting ready for Pride
Becky and Jes and Sherwin: novice float designers, all.
Birthday
Painted feet, painted face.
Why Catholics hate: a primer
The official Catholic doctrine is that homosexual conduct, including non-sexual, romantic behaviour, is immoral. The Catholic church writes and defends this view. The Catholic church preaches this to their members. And the Catholic church teaches this to students…
Dowtown
Gilda at crosswalk.
