As the Ottawa Citizen reported on Friday, the Treasury Board is sending a very mixed message about social media. They’re telling the Public Service to use social media and then putting enough caveats and confusion on the whole concept as to make it inconvenient and not worth their time. This goes beyond simply working against [...]
Surviving cancer and the treatment process means living with the nagging fear of recurrence. Every ache, pain and anomally is cause for concern. So, we make a point of celebrating every time Andrea‘s oncologist gives her a clean bill of health. The latest celebration took place Wednesday. Admittedly, it was a bit of a bitter-sweet [...]
I can’t help but feel the authors of a new report on the disconnect between our political system and young voters have missed the boat. According to an Ottawa Citizen report, Disconnect is primary reason young Canadians don’t vote: survey, the authors suggest… …a number of possible solutions, including an increased information drive on how, [...]
A bit long yet very important. #NoMoreBullies
I appeared on Power Play with OpenMedia’s Steve Thomson to talk about the CRTC’s ruling on usage-based billing. Sadly, CTV doesn’t make it possible to embed their video clips on other sites. So, if you’re interested, you’ll have to go to their site to see the clip. Before our segment, Don Martin spoke with CRTC Chairman Konrad [...]
As part of my digital makeover series, I’ve published a new page on my site called The Digital House. As noted on the page, it has a table with the following features: Lists all federal MPs, their parties and ridings Icons link to MPs’ primary digital outposts (web, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter & YouTube) Column headings [...]
Gail Shea is the MP for Egmont, PEI and serves as Canada’s Minister of National Revenue. It’s more likely you know her as the Canadian politician pied in the face by Emily McCoy, a member of PETA, during a January 2010 press conference. Ms. Shea was Minister of Fisheries and Oceans at the time and [...]
Six years ago I set out to speak with Canadian veterans of World War II and the Korean War before and after the Remembrance Day ceremonies at the Cenotaph in Ottawa. I produced a podcast featuring highlights of those conversations and published them to my Electric Sky podcast — a podcast which is now largely [...]
The Internet is perhaps the biggest amplifier in the world. It’s given a voice to everyone who can connect to it and through it. By that I mean, anyone who is (1) able to interface with the democratic tools of communication available through the Internet and (2) able to engage with others through compelling storytelling, [...]
A graphic artists painted a mural for Delilah, a new store in The Glebe, earlier today. I shot the video and edited the video on my iPhone — the first time I did a full video production on my smartphone after years of saying I couldn’t imagine doing so. Who knew?!
About a year ago we took our daughters to a wave pool. It was a Friday night. Andrea (my wife) had gone to the City of Ottawa website that afternoon and found that only one wave pool was open in the area (in the far reaches of the east end of the city) while others [...]
Prior to announcing his candidacy for the NDP leadership, he didn’t have a Twitter account. That was something of lore among political observers. In fact, Evan Solomon pursued the issue during his appearance on CBC’s Power and Politics. That’s all changed now. I’m talking about Thomas Mulcair. And today, after performing a digital makeover of [...]
