Monthly Archives: April 2015

Uber, mini cabs and safely using your credit card

I was disappointed we could not use Uber to get a cab home from a fundraiser dinner last night. We were on hold for a regular cab for a while and eventually got one. When asked, the cabbie said he … Continue reading

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Work Life Balance

I attended the funeral for a co-worker of mine yesterday morning.  Sadly he was only 55 when he passed away after battling colon cancer and related ilness for over a year & a half.  I worked with him for 5 … Continue reading

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Fund schools, not boards and allow competition

    Fund schools, not boards and allow competition This sounds like common sense. Why are we not doing this in Manitoba? http://m.winnipegsun.com/2015/01/06/dissolve-manitoba-school-boards-thinktank

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Senator’s or MP’s convicted of certain Criminal Offences should have their public funded pensions revoked

Bill C-518 is a Private Members bill introduced to amend the “Members of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act”. I learned more about this bill via the Canadian Tax Payers Federation. This bill which passed in the House on Feb 4 2015 and was … Continue reading

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Is the Manitoba Legislative Building a Temple

Is it a sacred building created to Honour Humanity and impress ideas and thoughts upon the people? To find out about this several of us went on “THE HERMETIC CODE” tour and everyone including myself was very impressed.  The accompanying … Continue reading

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Help fight for food education

The benefits of good diet is far reaching but put together with a healthy lifestyle can have an huge compounding effect. I just signed the petition “JAMIE OLIVER NEEDS YOUR HELP FIGHTING FOR FOOD EDUCATION ” and wanted to see … Continue reading

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Dating, relationships and the birth control pill and how genetics is involved

Interesting pod casts and articles about these topics. The Genetics of Love: Designing the perfect match through DNA Offer up a cheek swab and a Toronto company will tell you how genetically compatible you are to others on the same … Continue reading

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Should genetic and other testing for cancer be available to all Canadians?

I think the excuse that this or other  cancer detection tests gives too many false positives which require futher tests and this may unnecessarily upset a patient or family member is buluks.  If it saves or extents lives deal with … Continue reading

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Nudge: The Persuasive Power Of Positive and Negative Whispers

2 very interesting articles and a pod cast about positive Nudges on CBC Radio and on Pulse from Linked in I found the results from many of these nudge experiments amazing especially the supermarket ones.  It shows sometimes we need … Continue reading

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