Posted 1/24/2010 8:49:00 AM
What I am about to say is going to make me sound heartless to many people but I am going to say it anyway. And then I am going to try and explain it.
I want to explain why I have not donated any money specifically to the Haiti relief effort and why I won’t be making a donation right now. Well, technically speaking I have because the Federal government has donated my money for me, but I will get to that in a minute.
Yesterday on the program we talked about how Canadians were opening their wallets to help the recovery effort in Haiti. Musicians gathered and sang and played music all to unite people and to encourage donations. And it worked. Early into the Canada for Haiti concert millions had been raised and every dollar is being matched by the Federal Government.
Every time there is a natural ...
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Posted 1/17/2010 10:00:00 AM
A good friend of mine made a good joke the other day. She posted on her Facebook page that all this talk about proroguing government made her hungry – for perogies. Several friends checked the box saying they liked that thought and agreed. And I thought, doesn’t that sum up the proroguing of government nicely?
Remember the first time Stephen Harper prorogued government? Remember what a big deal it was? All of the camera crews were camped out at the doors to the Governor General’s office and when the door blew open in the wind everyone went live to document the movement even though it had the significance of a sneeze at a pepper convention.
It was a big deal. Questions were raised about how Canada could continue without a working government. Jon Stewart poked fun of our country on the The Daily Show, a concrete sign something big was ...
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Posted 12/13/2009 9:06:00 AM
I was out for a walk the other night. I was mid-span on the Burrard Street Bridge when I stopped dead in my tracks. Crews were putting the finishing touches on one of the six billboards being installed to make money for the Squamish First Nation,
I looked up, way, way up to see it. There, looming in front of me, much like a skyscraper built on a nature reserve, was the new billboard, approved by the Federal Indian Affairs Department.
It shouldn’t have come as a surprise. We all knew the billboards were coming. After a sham of a public process, if you can even call it a public process, they were approved.
But it is one thing to read about a plan in the newspaper, to talk about it on the radio, to see mock up drawings on TV. It is quite another to be standing, dwarfed by ...
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Posted 11/6/2009 9:36:00 PM
On Sunday morning we will be featuring an interview with a top money advisor and a relationship counselor. Does how we manage our money effect how we act in relationships? Take this quiz from TD Waterhouse and then email your score to
weekendnews@cknw.com. Then listen on Sunday morning at 7:30am to hear more about it!
1. At a wedding, a stranger asks you to dance. You:
a.) Grill them about their relation to the couple; you don't want to look
silly dancing with some wedding crasher (1 point)
b.) Say yes and strike up a friendly conversation (2 points)
c.) Say yes, keeping in mind that the dance floor will be a good vantage
point to scope out other potential partners (3 points)
2. Within a few hours of meeting someone, they'll know:
a.) Your name (1 point)
b.) That you're free on Saturday (3 points)
c.) Your e-mail address and ...
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Posted 10/4/2009 8:38:00 AM
Coming soon to a highway near you – billboards.
Yes, the Squamish Nation has been given the green light to go ahead with a plan to put up six giant billboards.
Eighteen of the huge billboards were originally proposed by the Squamish Nation, but after widespread public opposition, that plan was scaled back to just six billboards. The cynic in me can't help but think the original plan was never actually the original plan but rather a plan guaranteed to generate a public outcry so the actual plan of just six billboards seemed like the ultimate compromise.
My first gut reaction to this is one word. Yuck. Why should we all have to look at these eyesores so the Squamish band can make money? But then I started thinking about it more. Permission was granted for the billboards by the Federal Department of Indian Affairs. Does anyone agree with me ...
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