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Re: GOP congressmen caught on tape urging govt. shutdown

Chris Corrigan — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:02:20 -0000

why do people elect other people to a job that they don't want? Who would hire someone if, in the job interview she said "I hate your company and it should be out of my life. Hire me."

Conservatives have a vested interest in running government into the ground because they don't see it as a valuable social institution. No wonder they choose not to balance budgets, or shut them down.

Good luck America. Try not to come undone too badly.

Re: Bowen Island Undercurrent - Over-the-top idealism pervades the OCP update

Chris Corrigan — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:44:49 -0000

Local governance doesn't change if a Park is established on Bowen. We will still be a municipality and we will still govern the same way as we always have. Lots will change but that won't. We will still have to have a plan for our municipal lands and the private lands on Bowen.

Re: Bowen Island Undercurrent - How independent have past candidates been?

Chris Corrigan — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:49:19 -0000

Guys...it doesn't further your cause to make allegations about people having be funded by interests in the past and not documenting them. Nor do you win my heart with adjectives like "antics" used to describe present and past Councils. People have been trying hard to do their best. I think they deserve help and support, not suspicions cast their way.

I like the idea of OneBowen, but I won't join it because of this rhetoric.

Re: Rising to the Occasion

Chris Corrigan — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:57:44 -0000

Lovely Nancy...and did you end up making that sign?

Re: http://20qtues.tumblr.com/post/23999923629

Chris Corrigan — Wed, 30 May 2012 02:11:14 -0000

It just occurred to me now...you're not making some awesome map of every geographical story we've seen around here are you? Because in addition to being absolutely crazy, that would be quite awesome.

Re: It's Time To Break Up With Break-Out Groups

Chris Corrigan — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:38:59 -0000

Open Space Technology as a meeting format has been around since 1982. Participatory process in meeting design predates that even. There are many specialized areas of business practice - marketing, finance, HR, logistics, strategy, R&D - but folks hardly give a thought to the specialized practice of collaboration and meeting design. So many meetings in the business are not designed or designed poorly. In all aspects of business, it's fair to say "it's time to break up with unconscious working" rather than one particular result of unconscious work.

Re: 20 Questions Tuesday (20 Questions Tuesday: 229 - Transportation Woes II, "This time it's personal...")

Chris Corrigan — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 12:28:21 -0000

The answer to question 20 is geniius. Double genius points if you made that up yourself.

And sorry about the specificty of the ferry question, but that was some damn woeful transportation...just saying.

Re: Start with action, then reflect - Cognitive Edge Network Blog

Chris Corrigan — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:45:59 -0000

Great post dave, and I look forward to more. One of the key problems in practice with Theory U has been an underdeveloped prototyping practice. I think this is something the community of practice has been working on, but I have taken a lot from "safe to fail" iteration which I think is one of the best contributions of Cynefin (another one being the notion of category errors at the boundaries). As a practical practitioner of both Theory U and Cynefin I resonate with much of what you are saying here.

Re: Idle+No+More+organizer+wants+consequences+for+Brazeau+remarks

Chris Corrigan — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:37:20 -0000

You know who else gets a public salary, has a free house, flies around in his own jet and has a driver and a car while his people are starving, homeless and dying of preventable disease? The Prime Minister.

Re: Idle+No+More+organizer+wants+consequences+for+Brazeau+remarks

Chris Corrigan — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:38:40 -0000

So are you attacking the person or the argument here Pingston?

Re: Idle+No+More+organizer+wants+consequences+for+Brazeau+remarks

Chris Corrigan — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:39:51 -0000

Post a picture of yourself Pingston and let us judge from your appearance what you are worth to humanity.

Re: Idle+No+More+organizer+wants+consequences+for+Brazeau+remarks

Chris Corrigan — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:43:21 -0000

Forced several generations into English Pingston. That's what residential school was all about. "Spare the child, kill the Indian."

Re: Idle+No+More+organizer+wants+consequences+for+Brazeau+remarks

Chris Corrigan — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 03:37:07 -0000

Pingston is a member of the Conservative Party who is paid to troll newspaper comments sections and has not filed income taxes in eight years and who stole a car when he was a kid and blamed it on his best friend.

It's fun to make stuff up!

Re: Former+PM+Joe+Clark+meets+fasting+First+Nations+Chief+Theresa+Spence

Chris Corrigan — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 03:45:30 -0000

Other than signing away title to all lands FOREVER so you could privately own them, what other contribution should First nations make to Canada? Perhaps we should give back all the tax dollars and you should give back all the land, or do agreements not mean anything to you?

Re: Former+PM+Joe+Clark+meets+fasting+First+Nations+Chief+Theresa+Spence

Chris Corrigan — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 03:49:32 -0000

Yes. hard working Canadians for the rest of time are bound by the treaties that were signed between First Nations and the Crown. The treaties are forever. And taxpayers are not paying for mistakes, they are contributing what they said they would contribute under treaties. Without treaties it would be impossible for you to own land, use resources or probably have a job. So you get all that and now you want to not live up to your end of the bargain.

Why don't you give me the title to your house and I'll pay you $100 a year for as many years as I feel like it. When I've decided that you aren't worth caring about anymore I'll stop paying you. And I'll keep the house.

Re: Canadians confused about Idle No More: poll

Chris Corrigan — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 03:53:04 -0000

First Nations are accountable for ALL of the money they receive from the Government of Canada. Just because you can't be bothered to look up the reports doesn't mean that the sky is falling.

Re: Canadians confused about Idle No More: poll

Chris Corrigan — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 03:56:05 -0000

Of 633 First Nations in Canada in 2011 only 12 were in third party administration. Every provincial and Territorial government and the federal government has a debt. By the government's own standards, every one of those governments should be in third party administration.

So 98% of First Nations are well run and 100% of federal and provincial and territorial governments are mismanaged. Hmm.

Re: Theresa+Spence+recovering+in+hospital+after+ending+hunger+strike

Chris Corrigan — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 03:59:15 -0000

Every person who has ever been an MP collects a taxpayer funded pension. Many of those people sit around and do nothing. You have bigger fish to fry my friend.

Re: The TED Conference Relocates to Vancouver and Whistler

Chris Corrigan — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:12:29 -0000

Don't get me wrong, TED is fine and hosting it here is a natural - why wouldn't we host it? We did the Olympics, World AIDS Conference, and all kinds of major gatherings of international importance, But if we are a world class city, why do we get so excited about this? TED are the ones who should be happy to be here. We should be gracious and dignified hosts, but not fawning. The last paragraph in this article is overreaching. We are talking about 1,300 people out of 2 million for one conference.

Can we be confident and proud of our region without being sycophantic boosters? Can we undertake these kinds of things just because they are interesting and not have to justify them by tying them to vague national economic and social goals?

Re: 20 Questions Tuesday (20 Questions Tuesday: April Fool's Day and its Aftermath)

Chris Corrigan — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:25:33 -0000

Alright...I added the Lenarduzzi bit as, well, an APRIL FOOL'S joke...but you were a bit earnest in this post, and maybe it fell flat. I thought I might get at least a "I see what you did there." Something about bringing an analytical mind to something so spontaneously stupid as April Fools. I think you need to be more spontaneously stupid, if you think the kids can tolerate that! :-)

At any rate, the money idea in this whole post is Poisson d'Avril. Next year I am going to totally print up a bunch of stickers of fish and go around slapping them on people's backs and declaring "April Fish!" and then when they express surprise I will regale them with the Flat Country origins of the holiday and let them figure out whether I am kidding or not. Wikipedia will set them straight.

Re: Arguing with Atheists

Chris Corrigan — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 11:34:19 -0000

I think the lesson here is that it is always better to declare what it is you are for than to try to take a position against something as personal as belief. Speak to your own beliefs and kind hearted people will hear you out. Speak to others about their and they will always give you an argument, because there is no way you know them better than they do. This is what I despair about both evangelical Christians and evangelical atheists: each presumes to know what I believe, and I rarely get a conversation instead of a cross examination.

Re: 20 Questions Tuesday: 276 - New Media

Chris Corrigan — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 00:07:47 -0000

USL is streaming on You Tube...MLS not so much. Caps as of this writing are blacked out for every game across all of Canada. Enjoy watching my team.

Re: Benedictine nuns who devote themselves to chanting the Psalms in Latin release Lenten album

Chris Corrigan — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 12:50:16 -0000

Like commenting on National Post articles perhaps. To each their own.

Re: First Nations' Remarkable Legal Winning Streak

Chris Corrigan — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 18:00:34 -0000

My experience in the field suggests that the number of victories may be slowing down but the scope of the winning has increased. The Williams case is groundbreaking, as Stuart Phillip points out. Much ground has been opened over the past 40 years since Calder and we now have a completely different legal framework in Canada to contend with than 40 years ago. Victories now for First Nations will involve incredibly careful, detailed planning of very high stakes court challenges, but the pay off - ultimately resulting in the recognition of Aboriginal title on the ground and a clarity about the way the Canadian state needs to respond to that - will be one of the most significant shifts in constitutional law since 1867.

Re: First Nations' Remarkable Legal Winning Streak

Chris Corrigan — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 18:07:31 -0000

You are quite wrong about the boundary issue. Coastal First Nations have elaborate and detailed legal systems in place to determine boundaries and resolve disputes. The potlatch system is a system of governance that links land possessions to authority. Boundaries are critically important to know about in this system. Violations of those boundaries were treated harshly because a violation threatens the survivability of a nation, family or village.

As for "resolving this once and for all" that's just not possible. Canada as a state is made possible because of the ongoing, permanent and always changing relationship formed between the Crown and First Nations. You can try to wish it away, but without this relationship and the subsequent legal framework, you would not be able to own land for example. The relationship is not one that was defined in the past and now has no more relevance. It was a contract for all time. Governments will always be paying tax dollars into this relationship, but it's a far cry from the value that non-indigenous people are able to extract from this continent in terms of resources, land ownership and production. You just have to live with it I'm afraid. That's the deal about being a Canadian.