Panderhandling
Just read Ian King’s Ballotbox Bulldog column this week in Terminal City, where he modest-proposals Lorne Mayencourt’s Safe Streets Act: A new breed of panhandler has cropped up, and they have no respect for the law, especially the Safe Streets Act. These...How not to handle a news conference
Pop quiz: you have to do a news conference where you have damn-all in the way of actual news to announce. The media’s already prickly, and liable to turn on you. Do you: a) repeat your message over and over, making it the only clip reporters are likely to get...Tools (and I mean that in the nicest possible way)
Want to get a refreshing perspective on Gomermania AdScamGate-o-Rama the recent unpleasantness? One of the few American left-o’-Ghengis bloggers to take notice of the whole thing is Rivka at Respectful of Otters. She demolishes much of the right-wing...Metaphor flood overwhelms Ottawa
It’s been a good week for the kind of sound bite that makes you spray your orange juice all over your Weetabix during the morning news. You’ll remember this gem from Paul Martin spokesperson Scott Reid: “Paul Martin is the wire brush that will scrub...14 killed in explosive Gomery testimony
(Ottawa) – Fourteen people are known dead, dozens are injured and several missing following explosive testimony at today’s Gomery inquiry hearings. Justice Gomery escaped injury, and blames the explosion on a “perfect storm” of witness...
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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.
