The Conservative Party of Canada has started heating up its leadership campaign and I have a passing interest in it.  Two of the candidates – the two most odious – are known to me personally.  Kellie Leitch is the MP in my parent’s riding in Ontario and she was very helpful in helping my dad and I to get some written comments before the commons committee looking at the omnibus bill C-30 that Harper passed in 2012 when my own MP wouldn’t do it.  Since then she has supported asbestos exports (against her oath as an MD), a Barbarian Practices …

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“The secrets to living are these: First, the past cannot be improved upon. Acknowledge what was and move on. Next, the future cannot be molded. Then, why bother? Last, nothing can ultimately be controlled; Not the past, nor the future, nor the present. Accept this moment as it is. Honoring these three, one lives without shackles.” – Wu Hsin via whiskyriver At some point I think the work of complexity cannot be done without a psycho-spiritual component.  There are days which I would wish that Wu Hsin was a client.  I feel like action like he is describing – Taoist …

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After our snowy weekend, a true cold snap sets in Monday #YVR pic.twitter.com/nvQMXdSnB3 — Chris Doyle (@ensembleator) December 9, 2016 I wonder how the media should change its reporting of volatile weather systems with hyper local effects? The biggest problem with the way storms hit our crinkly coast is that they can be radically different in effect in locations only a few Kms apart and the projections can change by the hour. And yet, mass media runs with the single regional forecast that is issued every six hours and people believe what they want, then getting frustrated with the quality …

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