Canada needs more Marion Dewars
At age 16, my first experience volunteering on my own was heading down to Ottawa’s Lansdowne Park.It was the home of Project 4000, an initiative spearheaded by the city’s newly elected mayor, Marion Dewar:Canada had a quota of 8,000 Southeast Asian...I believe crash reports should be worth reading (13)
At 02:32 hours, an unidentified object was identified in low Earth orbit and tracked by NORAD. At 02:58, the object broke orbit and entered the atmosphere. Consistent with the Janus Protocol, a squadron of three pursuit aircraft (US and Russian) were scrambled to...
What should aspiring communicators study?
Someone asked one of the LinkedIn groups I’m in what courses an aspiring public relations practitioner should take in college. There was some good advice about writing and so on; others suggested related disciplines like marketing, or specific skills. I came at...
Jon Stewart’s second-last moment of Zen
Jon Stewart’s farewell episode of The Daily Show wrapped with a fantastic Bruce Springsteen performance, which Stewart introduced with “Here it is, my moment of Zen.” Twitter lit up, and rightly so; Springsteen’s song and the mass assembly of...
My dry sense of humour
I have a cartoon on The Vancouver Observer today! It’s about Vancouver’s horribly dessicated future.
Why, yes — I’d LOVE to speak at your event
Public speaking and speechwriting: the essential guides
Looking for advice on public speaking, speechwriting and leadership communications? Here are some of my most comprehensive posts, on topics that people ask me about most often.
