This is part of Fire! Ready! Aim! Series: Essays on Lessons Learned by an Enneagram Social 8w7 My best friend Darryl put me onto the idea that the way to true community and self awareness…
I’ve called out Marilyn Gladu, our local Member of Parliament, a few times over the last few years primarily for her dangerous religious ideology that seeps through her politics as she petitions our federal government,…
This is part of Fire! Ready! Aim! Series: Essays on Lessons Learned by an Enneagram Social 8w7 When I hear the term ‘submission’ I think of someone overpowering someone else, the final move of a…
I’ve been playing around with the idea of writing a collection of short essays for a while now. I want to share my experiences, insights and challenges of what my Eightness on the Enneagram has…
Like many of us, I just recently switched over to Signal from WhatsApp and I’ve been getting all my contacts to do so as well. Thanks Elon. One thing threw me off with Signal was…
On July 13, 2020 ago I made a motion to ask questions of the board of Bluewater Power which failed. Before failing, the mayor lectured me about how I had the audacity to question the…
There has been quite a kerfuffle here in Sarnia the last few months. A motion was put forward by Councillor Stark to make some requests of Bluewater Power. The vote passed 5-3. A few days…
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In my foray into politics I was struck early on of the different kinds of politicians that there are. At the risk of oversimplifying, I would put them into two categories. The first group are…
Back in June 2019, Councillor Bill Dennis made the following motion. That Staff be directed to complete a staff report on the potential to regulate short term rental platforms (such as Airbnb) within the City…
death is death even though not all death is the same as the space between one death and the next lies a heart that has been broken and mended and then put back together and…
In our corporate strategies meeting last week, I brought up what I thought to be an important issue on how the staff and council communicates big projects to the public. I said that: I’m thinking…
Ever since campaigning for council in 2018, there has been this message floating around that Sarnia needs population growth. Somehow it worked as a campaign strategy for councilors saying they were going to focus on…
Some important quotes from The Battle For Justice In Palestine: The Case for a Single Democratic State in Palestine by Ali Abunimah. What an important read and should be required reading for anyone discussing Palestinians…
About five years ago I set out to write a book on money and Christianity. I wrote a number of chapters, I researched what I could for the depth of the audience I was intending…
Back in August I made a motion “that staff report on reviewing our policies surrounding secondary dwelling units, especially to address the urgent and growing issue of student housing. This report should include the impact…
I lost my tiny little USB unifying receiver so I ended up buying a new one on Amazon. It detected fine by my laptop (on Windows 10), but for the life of me the Logitech…
I’ve had a few requests to do some clarifying on some of my comments around race and Canada on some previous conversations I’ve been having online. I thought I would post some of my thought…
There has been some press about a matter between myself and Marilyn Gladu, our federal member of parliament for Sarnia-Lambton. I called attention to her religious extremism and she didn’t take too kindly to it. …
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