Last week we had Sir John Hansen, current Chair of the Canterbury District Health Board. Sir John gave a relatively short talk and then answered questions from those attending and those who had submitted questions earlier. It was one of the few times which Sir John has spoken publicly, and we were … [Read more...]
This week’s speaker: Ian Powell on CDHB
How can CDHB best serve its population... This week we are privileged to have Ian Powell, who for 30 years was the Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists. Ian has a unique view of Health having been there before most of the current players and having worked with … [Read more...]
What happens to political parties when they get into power:
This week there was a Webinar organised by the Community Housing Sector. All the political parties were invited to discuss Community Housing policies. They were all there; except Labour. Before the last election it was my job to arrange for all of the political parties to speak about Community … [Read more...]
Elections GE2020
This article deserves closer examination: Despite Judith Collins’ claim, the caretaker convention – the understanding that in certain circumstances significant governing decisions should have a parliamentary majority, or be consulted on by the opposition – does not apply in the pre-election … [Read more...]
A really neat idea for us to have rainwater tanks:
A friend, who notices these things, said to me recently that we aren’t having much rain these days. She trawls through the weather forecast and her eyes light up as she reads about rain being predicted. Each time I just hope she’s wrong, as I’ll get wet on my bike. She’s almost always wrong. So’s … [Read more...]
Shamubeel Eaqub:
I really enjoy Shamubeel’ s thinking. So, it was interesting to read this article this week in Stuff from Shamubeel Eaqub commenting on the pros and cons of lockdowns. He stated: Level 2 restrictions did not have a big impact on the economy, but level 3 reduced economic activity by around 30 per … [Read more...]
Ignore radio talk back on Covid 19:
It’s fascinating the empty nonsense we hear on radio talkback is promoting that we follow Sweden which supposedly has more liberties than we have. In recent comments talkback radio host Ryan Bridge wrote, "It’s becoming abundantly clear the Prime Minister’s sworn mission of stamping Covid-19 out … [Read more...]
This is a brilliant analogy of how we are careless about saving cents and causing millions of costs:
In this article Eric Crampton tells the tale of the faulty O-ring which caused the explosion of one of the Space rockets and the death of all the astronauts inside. It was a simple, in fact cheap, fitting which failed and destroyed everything everybody had been working on. In this article … [Read more...]
Stan O’Keefe:
This week one of our good friends, Stan O’Keefe, died. Stan and his wonderful wife, Lynne, ran Warners Hotel in the Square with their daughter Sarah and staff. Stan was a classic publican. He forever was changing his bars and he had customers who had followed him from pub to pub. I remember one … [Read more...]
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