Austerity and Other Power Words
By Trish Hennessy In 2007 Merriam-Webster asked visitors to its website to vote for their word of the year: it was w00t! an acronym for “we owned the other team” that’s hipper than yelling yay! but...
View ArticleJudging a book by its cover
A few studies reported on in the New York Times indicate that when it comes to running for office, how you look can make a huge difference at the ballot box. I thought I’d summarize the findings in...
View ArticleKicking them while they’re down
By Trish Hennessy Four years after a global economic meltdown threw scores of Canadians out of work during one of the worst recessions ever, followed by a tepid recovery that has us still biting our...
View ArticleA Cure For What Ails Us
By Trish Hennessy Discussions about how to frame social issues in Canada are often left to communications professionals, but so many times it’s the people on the front lines of public service who have...
View ArticleThe gift we give each other
By Trish Hennessy It can be easy to forget that taxes, while paid grudgingly, were never quite so vilified as they are today. When my mother was born on the dusty Prairies in the heart of the Great...
View ArticleHennessy Goes To Washington
By Trish Hennessy This excerpt from The Newsroom is making the social media rounds, and it got me thinking about the paradox of the word freedom. The language is saltier than I like to share, the...
View ArticleHumanity
I was reading this story about the devastating shooting rampage that left 26 dead in a Connecticut school. And I noticed a pattern. “A custodian ran around, warning people there was someone with a...
View ArticleIt’s not a tax haven
Tax havens: wrong term. It’s tax evasion. Tax havens make tax evasion sound like a temporary holiday, whereas for many of the world’s wealthy, it’s a permanent strategy to avoid paying their fair share...
View ArticleIf all the world’s a stage, I want better slides
guest blogger interlocutor.ca Over the past several years, if you have been to a public speaking engagement by my soul mate and partner Trish Hennessy, you might have seen me lurking in the shadows,...
View ArticleLook away
If you’re a government wanting the public to look away while the environment gets ravaged by controversial projects such as Alberta’s tar sands and major oil pipeline projects, what do you do?...
View ArticleCanada Post or Canada Past?
Canadians who value their deep history of universal postal service are reeling from the latest round of cuts to Canada Post: the end of door-to-door delivery service accompanied by a hike in postage...
View Article知ってて得する旅のコツ『格安航空券』の存在は絶対に知っておいてほしい
旅行の交通手段でまず挙げられるのが電車や夜行バス。その選択肢に『空旅』を追加してみませんか? ■空港って意外と近いし楽ちん!...
View Article格安航空券で行ける路線は意外に多いのでやっぱり利用した方がお得でしょう!
格安航空券と聞けば、国際線をイメージするでしょう。もちろん当初は海外旅行の便利ツールでした。主にリスクを恐れないバックパッカー向けでした。しかし知名度が高まってくると、旅行に不慣れな人も利用するようになりました。ニーズが増えれば当然供給も増えます。 今なら格安航空券で行ける路線は、意外なほど多くなっていますよ。 ■格安航空券で行ける路線は多いですよ...
View Article格安航空券で自由に旅を組み立てることが出来るようになるのでお勧めです!
ビジネス、プライベートを問わずよく旅行する方の中で、LCCという言葉を知らない人はもういないかもしれません。Low-Cost Carrierすなわち格安航空会社のことですね。日本航空や全日空でも、「先得」「旅割」などサービス名称は異なりますが、早期に予約することによってチケットを通常より安く購入することはできます。...
View Article鳥取で美味しいカニを沢山食べるつもりなら格安航空券でしょ
皆さんは風俗嬢と遊ぶとき、「会話」をしていますか?対面したら、大抵の方は何かしら会話をしているはずなんですが、何も言わずにただ黙々と服を脱ぐという感じではお葬式みたいな感じになってしまいますから、なるべく話すようにした方がいいと思います。...
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