BIG Mouth

Loyalty can be a beautiful thing in human relationships and business partnerships. However, loyalty can also have disastrous consequences. When your friend asks you to support them in illegal or immoral activity that would cause harm to another person or group, it is generally not a good idea to support them. The same principles apply in politics. If any person or group at any level of government is planning to implement – or has enacted – a policy that I...

I would like to issue an all-points bulletin on a stolen property. It’s a beautiful place that millions used to visit regularly with friends and associates. Sadly, it was stolen in broad daylight. The property is affectionately known as Middle Ground. Middle Ground was last noticed at a gathering in the summer of 2019 at which I heard someone say, “That’s a good point; I disagree with you, but constructive debate is an essential component of progress...

Due to unpopular demand, I have decided to publish my 2023 Christmas Wish List. You are welcome to put any or all of them under my tree this year. Think of it as a great opportunity to experience the joy of giving. Those of you who have already given me some of these gifts are encouraged to go for a STRIKE, where you knock down all 5 items on the list. A special prize will be awarded...

In a news flash that is every bit as shocking as the sun rising today, a new poll indicates that Canadians are just not that in to paying exorbitant costs associated with the feds' fantastical fight to fix climate change. In a report published on Thursday (Carbon Tax: Perceptions of insufficient rebates, cost of living concern and questions over efficacy send support plummeting), pollster Angus Reid said: "Canadians have consistently voiced concerns over the increasing cost of...

I recently celebrated the youngest of my seven children reaching adulthood. Helping my kids get to adulthood in good mental and physical health had been my #1 goal. There have been many ups and downs in my 31 years of parenting, and many lessons learned. One of the most difficult and arguably most important realizations was that teenage brains are complex and evolving. Sometimes hormonal changes make their brains short-circuit. Sometimes teenagers behave in irrational ways. It does...

Some of you might say that it is time to move past discussion of public policy missteps related to the COVID-19 pandemic.  However, leaders of many work environments – including large health-care organizations – stubbornly refuse to understand and react to fundamental truths, the acknowledgment of which could alleviate critical labour shortages.  Vaccine mandates were ill-founded from the outset, but even more absurd is the fact that there are still many jurisdictions in which employees who...

The large news organizations are too focused on the pursuit of profits to realize that their irresponsible coverage and algorithms are at the heart of a deeply divided world.   It is a fool's game to expect the mainstream news companies to change their ways and revert to producing high-quality, education-focused journalism. The focus for them will forever be on the size and ongoing attention – rather than the intelligence – of the audience.   Change must come...

The media organizations that accepted and promoted the words of medical officials and politicians without proper investigation and analysis over the last few years do not deserve your attention. The New York Times, the Economist, the Globe & Mail, CNN, CBC, CTV – they all got the pandemic wrong. The coverage was no better throughout Europe and Down Under. News companies stopped conducting good journalism and relentlessly published content that convinced most that the lock-down-and-take-your-shot approach...

Six years ago, I lost my youngest boy, Julian, in Italy’s Lake Como. Don’t worry - I found him right away. After a few seconds of morbid panic, Julian bobbed to the surface, soaking wet, gasping for air, and gripping the cobblestone slope that had proved too slippery for his Velcro sneakers and sent him bumping into the water. While local vacationers looked on, sipping cappuccinos, and appearing to be bored to death by my nine-year-old’s near-drowning, I scurried my way down the cobblestones while silently...

Some people scoff at the idea that intellectual humility is a cornerstone of the BIG Media Ltd. business model. They see me aggressively marketing BIG-Media.ca, making bold claims about the accuracy and integrity of a relatively new player in the news media game, and they wonder how such a serial self-promoter could possibly claim that his organization is practising intellectual humility. However, pride, promotion, and intellectual humility are not mutually exclusive. Wikipedia defines intellectual humility as "the...