Well, a chill is in the air. Not the weather, I mean the federal election. It could be that the chills are the thrill of living in a democracy and flexing our democratic authority like few in history have been able to do.
No. It’s the chill caused by measuring the reality of the election against that potential.
Given the timing of this posting you might worry that I’m going to blather on about Justin Trudeau in blackface. I won’t do that! Just kidding. Of course I’m going to talk about that.
This posting is like one of those weak flashback episodes that were always so disappointing on TV shows, where they just re-used old content with some weak plot to tie it all together.
This posting is to let you know what you might have missed during the year. It’s like a Table of Contents, but way more interesting. Well, a little more interesting.
I hope the shiny new solve-all-our-problems HR department makes progress on Inuit employment. I hope they believe we can do better. I hope they do better. They’ve only had three weeks so far, but what will we be seeing when we look back in another 20 years?
We live our lives in the shadow of the walls we have not yet climbed.
Nunavut is 20 years old this week; when we are done looking back, let’s jump forward and look back on our future past, so we can see what we can accomplish in the next 20 years.
There are lots of ways ‘the north’ in Canada is different from ‘the south’. Generally only northerners know what they are. Read on for ten differences, and see who wins.
Northern Canada versus Southern Canada. Here it is. Five differences, and which is better. Written by a northerner. But I’m super fair.
It is a stereotype of Canadians that we say sorry a lot. Many of us like the stereotype, presumably thinking that it means we are empathetic and caring. Maybe we are a caring people, but history doesn’t show that, at least not in these parts. So now, the government is getting good at apologizing.
I’ve ranted about climate change, I’m a stay a home father, and I’m a former biology teacher who owns a cloth diaper store and has a greenhouse. I might be accused of being a tree-hugging new age hippie. Or at least, the arctic equivalent of a tree-hugger, since hugging arctic dwarf scrub willows is just lying on a pile of broken twigs that will take 50 years to grow back.
But I’m in favour of a pipeline.
I know that the TV and movie industry would never sacrifice accuracy for melodrama, just like I wouldn’t sacrifice clarity for sarcasm. That’s why I know from watching fictional courtrooms that in real life it must also be true that sometimes the judge will direct a jury to disregard certain information that has been presented. I want to know how that works out because I am interested in human kind’s ability (or lack there of) to put genies back in bottles and walk away.
Bell Let’s Talk Day is coming. It is just over a year away. Oh, yes, there is one next Wednesday, January 30th, but I’m more focused on the next one, because we have some work to do.
