This thread probably isn’t a good one to read ever, let alone on the scariest day of the year! “Scientists of Reddit, what’s a scary science fact the public is generally unaware of?” Happy Halloween everyone! This one is of particular interest to Saskatchewan… If you think the pandemic was bad, this is possibly the […]
I usually post a picture for Throwback Thursday but for something different today, I thought I’d post a different type of “throwback”. I was recently talking with someone about the best leadership/management/business books we’d read. I said I have a few favourites but one called “Employees First, Customers Second” by Vineet Nayar was the first […]
Some of the society-shifting impacts of Covid are being seen most clearly in workplaces. A lot depends on whether managers and leaders are able to shift their thinking…
There are a few (very few!) medical exemptions I can understand for not getting the vaccine – if you are allergic to something in the vaccine, if you had a serious reaction/event after your first shot and, uhm, not much else? But I’ve never understood being exempted on religious grounds. Even if you believe in […]
This popular Reddit thread has lots of great examples of how people realised they weren’t young anymore. Here’s a few of mine… – in common with some of the most popular answers, I went on a sunset boat cruise in Kelowna about ten years ago. They were promoting “Classic Rock” but they played stuff from […]
If you believe in mythology, it’s a lot harder to believe in science… (And honestly, I picked one random example but there are dozens if not hundreds of examples from across North America and around the world where religious leaders are playing a role in making the pandemic worse by giving bad advice to their […]
An Angus Reid poll showed that 75 per cent of Canadians agreed with the statement “I don’t have a lot of sympathy for people who chose not to be vaccinated and then got COVID-19.” In B.C., 53 per cent favoured making vaccines mandatory in public places to make life harder for unvaccinated people, while another […]
This thread may be the biggest shit show in the history of CalgaryPuck, a Calgary Flames fan site/message board I’ve been reading since 2001. What starts as a discussion of the Jets announcing they’ll require proof of vaccination devolves as a series of antivaxxers keep popping up to make all sorts of logically and factually […]
Maybe because, like “Nanette” by Hannah Gadsby, it totally deconstructs what a “comedy” special is? Or maybe because it’s one of only a handful of truly reflective, unique artworks created during Covid that capture what this past year has been like? Or maybe because I’m pretty sure he does this by not mentioning Covid once […]
