No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.

• October 26, 2011

I’m pretty serious about making Calgary just a little bit better. I’m definitely serious about doing at least one thing above and beyond the ordinary to make it happen. I’m absolutely determined that I’m going to be more than just a person who lives in my neighbourhood. I’m going to contribute. I’m going to make it a place where I want to live and where I want my neighbours to live as well. Read More

My 3 Things for Calgary

• October 22, 2011

It’s so cute when good ideas grow up. After the civic election last year, I wasn’t sure what I could do to keep the feeling of energy and vitality, the spirit of cooperation, the drive to make Calgary a better city today than it was yesterday. I half-jokingly told Mayor Nenshi, “We’ve got a city to make better. I’m on side. To whom do I report tomorrow?” DJ Kelly answered with probably the most influential tweet of my life. Read More

One year of creating a Better Calgary

• October 19, 2011

Ironically, the hardest time to blog is when I feel I have the most to say. One year ago tonight, Naheed Nenshi was elected as the mayor of Calgary. It was an election that literally made international headlines. If you’ve visited my blog before, you know I’ve spoken about it for a year. Tonight I met with friends and discussed our past and our future. Sure, it may have been an anniversary of a historic win - an event that we may never see replicated in Canadian politics. Read More

Cabinet. PICK ME! PICK ME!

• October 12, 2011

Sometimes I wish I could be a little more funny. That or appear to be completely devoid of humour at all. I was half-heartedly watching the cabinet appointments as it was coming out on twitter earlier this morning in between other odds and sods (let’s be honest, it was mostly hitting Retry on a Blackberry) I was doing at work. I desperately wanted to make a couple high-larious jokes along the way, scoop up a little unwarranted attention in a drive by character assassination for no apparent reason whatsoever. Read More

Another reason I'm proud to be in the Alberta Party

• October 3, 2011

I try to be pretty careful when tiptoeing through party politics. Not that I’m really afraid to offend anyone, more so because I’ve never really fit into party politics before. I’ve never bought a membership to be a part of any particular party before last December. I’ve stood on the sidelines and cheered. I voted somewhat consistently according to my values. As I’ve said before, I’m generally lumped into the red Tories, but the line gets awfully blurry. Read More

I shouldn't be up this late and not looking at the sky

• October 2, 2011

I used that line as a tweet, but it’s too significant to just leave at that. I’m awake at 2:30 in the morning to watch a leadership election from a party I do not support and have no interest in. I don’t entirely know why. Interested in the race, yes. I want to know who our next Premier is going to be, yes. I have huge doubts that we’re going to see significant change in provincial governance. Read More

The Point

• September 13, 2011

Being driven solely by fear is a terrible feeling. Being driven by anger is equally bad. It is vitally important to have an understanding of both sides of the equation. To be driven only by fear to press forward. To be driven by only by anger to accomplish a goal. It is also just as important to understand there is a completely other side. To be the one to create the fear, to be the one to cause the anger that serves as the final motivation to force another to bend to your will. Read More

Getting to the Point

• September 8, 2011

So it’s time to start drawing my thoughts together and start making sense of all the bigger thoughts I’ve been working on. Let me be very up front. I’m afraid to write this entry. I haven’t brought all my thoughts together and I haven’t always been extremely explicit with a lot of the points I’ve been thinking about. The first thing I have to mention is that I’ve really felt crushed under the stress, particularly over the past few months. Read More

To fail?

• September 6, 2011

I’m starting to think that failure is seriously under rated. I tried to ride my bike out to Banff on Saturday. On Friday, just as I was planning my trip, I spoke with the neighbour who reminded me that it was a long weekend and most of the camping spots would be already occupied. So instead of being a day trip out and camping overnight, it became a ride out and back in a single day. Read More

Law and Order, Order and Law

• August 31, 2011

I’m not particularly a “Law and Order” guy. Don’t get me wrong, I’m pretty much on the opposite end of the spectrum from hardened criminal element here. My mommy says I’m a nice boy, and if you’ve been reading here you’ll know that my cornerstones are my all and I genuinely want to create positive change in the world. I just don’t buy “If you do the crime, do the time. Read More