by Rob Cottingham | Nov 17, 2006 | Vancouver
(cross-posted to ChangeEverything.ca) Despite the inconvenience to most and some real problems for some (the elderly, for instance, and the many restaurants and shops that rely on clean fresh water to stay, um, afloat), Vancouver’s boil-water situation... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 5, 2006 | Comedy, Vancouver
Comedy update #3: Most people think you have to be nuts to do stand-up comedy. However, counselor and stand-up comic David Granirer offers it as a form of therapy. In David’s Stand Up For Mental Health course, mental health consumers turn their problems into... by Rob Cottingham | Mar 15, 2006 | Politics, Speechwriting
When the British government put out the call for a new speechwriter to manage the troubled health dossier, they offered a salary ranging from about £38,000 to £56,543. That in turn provoked gasps of outrage throughout the British media and blogosphere (any... by Rob Cottingham | Aug 17, 2005 | Communicating, How to...
Want a crash course in the basics of risk communication? The Pan American Health Organization (a.k.a. the Americas branch of the World Health Organization) has an online course available, free of charge. Check it out. by Rob Cottingham | Jul 13, 2005 | Politics
Greg nails it at Sinister Thoughts: the public system will be like a dragonfly in amber Gorgeous. So the challenge is: who can express the problem with Ralph Klein’s health care approach even more pithily and at least as elegantly?