One of the great things about working with Tenneson Woolf is that he is a pretty careful note taker. He usually has a good blog post tucked away before I even get home, and the same is true today. Have a read of what he noticed in our work together with the Canadian Union of Public Employees this past week, working with union developers and educators – a marvelous group of people, full of heart and life and love and solidarity. The very best of what we are.
This morning, driving up to the clubhouse at the Seven Hills Golf and Country Club near Port McNeill, there was a mother black bear and her cub roaming around the parking lot. They took off before I could get a photo. The journey continues…I’m in Vancouver tonight enroute on a red eye to Toronto and then Ottawa.
The “new road” from Nanaimo to Campbell River takes you high above the ocean, across the tops of the lowlands where the Vancouver Island range mountains slope down to the Strait of Georgia. It’s a long fast stretch of double highway, posted at 110 km/h and taking only an hour and a half, which is a full 30 minutes shorter than the more scenic, but interminably slow Ocean Route. What you gain in speed though, you lose in character, and other than a few stunning lookouts, the scenery is dominated by recovering clearcuts on the mountains all around. You miss …
I am heading out on a mammoth trip today. My itinerary looks like this:Monday – drive to Port MacNeil on northern Vancouver Island Tuesday – Facilitate community to community forum with North Island First Nations and local governments. When finished, drive back to Campbell River and jump on a plane. Fly to Vancouver, then Toronto then Ottawa. Wednesday – Facilitate workshop in Ottawa with the Canadian Union of Public Employees. Friday – Finish workshop and return to Vancouver Saturday – Facilitate one day Open Space for the Ministry of the Attorney-General Family Court Committee. Return home Saturday night. This …
Nice find from Kevin Harris who blogged the Republican’s digs at Barack Obama’s community organizing experience: George Pataki: ‘He was a community organizer. What in God’s name is a community organizer? I don’t even know if that’s a job.’ Then former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani delivered his own snickering hit job. ‘He worked as a community organizer. What? Maybe this is the first problem on the resumé,’ mocked Giuliani. A few minutes later, in her acceptance speech for the GOP vice presidential nomination, Sarah Palin declared, ‘I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except …