Ontario 2026 - It was a rainy day...
It was a rainy day in Oakville when my cousin Raoul… Wait. I don’t have a cousin Raoul. We all slept in, even Cathy, who’s famously up early, and Tori, who didn’t have an 8:30 shift at the pool. …
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Ontario 2026 - Louis Tomlinson and the Blue Jays
From the outset, today’s plans were always going to be a big dodgy. Although we had a definitively hard schedule for 6pm, the rest was to be made up as we went. Obviously, we’ve been to Toronto before. Alex …
The Problem with GO Transit
GO Transit has a major problem: the prices. Actually, it’s a bigger problem than that, so let me start there: Too many people. In the last 15 years, the Greater Toronto Area has grown by at least 1.2 million …
Ontario 2026 - Happy Birthday to Me!
Happy birthday to me! Things got off to a bit of a slow start, as I started to wake up around 4 or 5, for reasons I don’t understand. I was tired and awake at the same time. It was rough. I managed to eke a bit …
Ontario 2026 - Cider and Niagara Falls
Forest fires in Northern Ontario have dropped a lot of smoke over Southern Ontario. The sun is nothing more than a pale red disc in the sky. It’s still hot, humidity sky-high. It’s a good reason to leave …
Ontario 2026 - The trouble with rental agencies
It’s been a long time since I was excited to fly. I don’t think I’ll ever recapture the novelty of flying when I was a kid – and goodness knows the airlines will never be like that again – …
Why I Use AI
Let me start with one critical point: I am NOT an Artificial Intelligence evangelist. We clear? Got it? Good. Moving on… I use AI. I am an AI user. I leverage AI in (not quite) my daily activities to address the …
Outplacement in Technology, Part 1
Part of my severance is outplacement services, which I am genuinely thankful for, if for no other reason than I haven’t been without work for quite a long time. And as happens to all of us, I’ve gotten older, …
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Lawyers and Severance
Let me make one thing very clear: I am not a fan of lawyers. In my experience, they use up precious funds to provide vacuous information. It’s never a full recommendation (eg. “you should do X”), …
Layoffs at ChangeMakers
You’re being let go, your department’s being downsized, you’re part of an outplacement, we’re going in a different direction, we’re not picking up your option… - Emperor Kuzco and …