Wednesday, September 30, 2009
I asked my friend’s little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be Prime Minister of Canada some day.
Both of her parents, NDP supporters, were standing there, so I asked her, “If you were Prime Minister what would be the first thing you would do?”
She replied, “I’d [...]
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
One of the keys to quality communications is to ensure that what you communicate is precise, effectively conveyed, grammatically correct and free of spelling and typographical errors. In our daily course of work, today, we are sending more and more written messages, largely due to the increased use of e-mail.
Keep in mind, your every [...]
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
From How You Can Write Plain Language by Just Following These 39 Steps
By William D. Lutz, author of Doublespeak Defined and The New Doublspeak
The Writing Process
1. Know your reader, and write with your reader’s viewpoint in mind.
2. Organize your text: in a logical sequence, with informative headings, and with a table of contents for [...]
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Some further thoughts on Michael Valpy’s G&M opinion piece about the great devides now appearing in the Canadian soul….. For those young Canadians voting for the first or second time in this election, they have grown up in a very different Canada than the one Pierre Trudeau presided over – in fact, many may not [...]
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Michael Valpy in August 28, 2009 Globe and Mail wrote a very thoughtful piece about Canadians’ sense of themselves and how our habits of digesting news and information is weakening the country’s sense of direction and purpose.
According to social scientists who study the issue, Canada is developing a social-cohesion deficit. Too little holds us [...]
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Vote for the man who promises least. He’ll be the least disappointing. — Bernard Baruch
Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? — Robert Orben
Our elections are free - it’s in the results where eventually we pay. — Bill Stern
Elections [...]