Get Nimby

We're about to start the "new normal" - think of it as how can we sustainably suppress this virus without indefinitely staying isolated? Employers are actively thinking about their workplaces and the risks in those workplaces - but they're human and could really use some help in terms of not only identifying risk, but developing reasonable strategies to mitigate that risk. Many employers, particularly small businesses, care very deeply about their employees and their customers. They do not want to harm either - they want to provide goods and services and employment in ways that are safe. Eliminating all risk isn't possible - but a lot of risk can be mitigated and if we all work together, we can get back to work safely. So if your employer no longer has an office fridge, cups, mugs, cutlery, coffee or beverages and requires you to pack your own. Please understand, they are trying to mitigate risk by eliminating things that are "shared". If

It seems a moment and an eternity ago our country was contending with blockades orchestrated by a group of environmental zealots who had appropriated a cause for their own purposes and who intended to shut Canada down.  Now, we are on the literal brink of having our country shut down - not to save the environment, or bring justice to indigenous communities, but rather to halt a virus that is now on our shores and threatening our health system and our loved ones.  With breath taking speed, all that was normal has become abnormal. Our country is in shock, but it must refrain from despair.  Now is when we must clearly think, where being hyper rational can avoid catastrophe - there will be costs, but we can manage if we don't over react or under react.  There are things we must do now, to get through the next bit and to triage what is coming - we must move aggressively to provide social distance, while refraining from killing all commerce.  We must think about where we need to go, an

There's a lot of reason to look around and despair.  We are at a moment in time where it seems everything that appeared to make our country great has been shattered.  There are shards of what was everywhere - the country seems on the brink of grinding to a halt.  The stock market is tumbling.  People are fearful that the environment will be ruined.  We are on the brink of a pandemic.  People are shouting at each other, not listening - and those who are trying to rise above the fray and look at what is, are having difficulty separating out the fact from fiction.  This is what happens when what is becomes so divorced from what is shown to be - it all comes crashing down at the very moment it needs to come together. There are layers upon layers of dysfunction, and at its root is a mix of entitlement, envy and greed with many out to get their own, by appropriating the causes of others for one's own benefit.  They silence those who most need to be heard at the moment when they are

There are things I don't want in my backyard.  I'm not a fan of racism in any shade.  I'm not a fan of taking things without permission.  I'm not a fan of preventing people from working hard to get ahead.  I'm not a fan of public spaces being abused.  I'm not a fan of bullying and cancel culture.  I'm not a fan of green lighting public drug use, and public intoxication.  I'm not a fan of laws that aren't applied equally, regardless of economic stripe.  I'm not a fan of affordability escaping from the grasp of many.  I'm not a fan of rights absent responsibilities.  I'm not a fan of lip service to ideals - and an absence of pragmatism.  I don't believe in free rides, but I do believe in fair rides.  I abhor paid protest - and those that engage in it undermine our democracy.  These are all things, I don't want in my backyard - to which I will happily declare "NOT IN MY BACKYARD". I will work towards cancelling cancel c

I'm not a climate change denier - I believe climate change is happening, I believe there is a need to shift towards having less of an impact on our environment, and I believe there is a tremendous need to adapt to what the future will be however, I also believe we have stepped over a rational line and into a territory where the much larger risk to humankind is one where a scary graphs enable very scary solutions to become real possibilities. We have told our children that their future is at risk, we have allowed other children to tell them the same - and now we're incredibly surprised by what is unfolding before us. Chaos. Deep divides - and a scuttling of rational progress towards the future - a progress that until the past few weeks included continued reconciliation with the nations first nations. A full stop discontinuance of the use of fossil fuels is not feasible. It would result in the death and starvation of millions (perhaps even billions) in the short term. There is

I'm not an Andrew Scheer fan - for a bunch of reasons.  Probably for the same reasons many modern conservatives (recovering liberals) find themselves unable to vote for him.  I'm pro-choice, pro-science, pro-equal rights and human rights - but I'm finding a lot about modern liberals that has left a very bad taste in my mouth.  The level of virtue signalling in the current political realm has me reeling. In response to a basic break down in this country to respect the rule of law - a week that has seen roads illegally blocked, rail lines illegally blocked, and the BC legislature illegally blocked, Andrew Scheer has asked the protesters to "check their privilege".  Of course the "left" is jumping on this - it seems laughable that a conservative, white male, should be asking those who are wanting to stand in solidarity with a First Nation to, "check their privilege". Here's the kicker though, and it might be the only time in my life that I