About Us Our ServicesVANOC leader and inspirational champion John Furlong graciously turned down an invitation to enter the political arena by seeking the Liberal Party leadership. In bowing out of the leadership race, Furlong said:
“While I firmly believe in public service and the power of a compelling vision, I simply can’t imagine trying to contribute and lead in an environment that is so openly hostile and unforgiving as we have witnessed in the past few days.” http://tinyurl.com/39szcnw
A new report by Statistics Canada indicates that high-school dropout rates are declining. That’s the good news – the bad news is that 10.3 per cent of young men and 6.6 per cent of young women between the ages of 20 and 24 still have not completed a high-school diploma and are not attending school. http://tinyurl.com/287vogt It’s like starving to death in a grocery store.
A new battle was launched in the escalating war between mainstream media and new media with the recent revamping of Canada’s national newspaper, the Globe and Mail. This is a war for survival for the main stream media and one I hope they win.
The fact that those Chilean miners, trapped underground for 67 days, received media training (http://tinyurl.com/2vshpbj) (among other bits of useful information) from former radio journalist and site safety supervisor Alejandro Pino tweaks our contemporary communications sprocket another half-turn tighter.
OK, I think everyone knows that BP has learned from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill – as have all of us.
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