(Cross posted from Sclarkconsulting.ca)
This week I’m helping out of the 2013 World Figure Skating Championships being held in my hometown of London Ontario. In particularly I’ve been helping the worlds media get their laptops setup to connect to wireless network that has been setup for the event. For the geeks among you I can say this is some serious heavy duty networking going on particularly on the wireless side of things. All media these days comes with a laptop and photographers have laptops and their cameras.
For all this planning the main issue we have encountered is some folks did not bring international power adapters. Fortunately a local store is only a few short blocks away who have been able to help.
This serves to remind us to spend a few minutes making sure that you have everything you need to keep your tech going while you are away from your home or office. Last night I made sure my laptop and phone were charged. I keep a separate power supply for the laptop in my backpack so I don’t have to worry about un-plugging the one from under my desk. Since I have an iPhone I packed a sink cable so I could charge it from my laptop if needed.
All in all a good first day.
London’s Mayor Joe Fontana has said he will not take a leave of absence in light of have 3 criminal charges against him by the Crown/RCMP. The charges are as follows.
Breach of Trust by Public Officer, contrary to section 122 CC
Fraud Under $5000 contrary to section 380 (1)(b) CC
Uttering Forged Documents contrary to section 368 CC
These are serious allegations for anyone but for someone in public life and at the helm of an organization with a budget of 1 billion dollars it does give pause whether the Mayor still has the public’s trust in guiding the organization.
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Chip Martin of the London Free Press broke a story tonight about Mayor Joe Fontana using a federal cheque to pay for his son’s wedding back in 2005. If these allegations are true, it’s another scandal London City Council and the city as a whole does not need.
Many questions still need to be answered but in light of these allegations is it surprising people are cynical about politics? We will will wait and see what happens with this in the days and weeks ahead.
Well a very unexpected turn of events in Ontario Politics. Premier Dalton McGuinty announced that he is proroguing the Ontario legislature and resigned as Premier and Liberal Party Leader. His full statement is now available.
While I’m not happy about a prorogue of the legislature, I can see why the premier would decide to do this. 16years is a long time to be leader (he is the 2nd longest serving Liberal premier in the province). As well there are very few times a government in power can continue to do well past several terms. There are many things the Librerals have done in the last 9 years that I’m happy about, however lately they have done some things that don’t make sense at least to me.
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March 13, 2013 1:19 pm | 
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