Showing posts with label accountable. Show all posts
Showing posts with label accountable. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Action is Clear
Friday, January 5th, 2007
This will appear as a ‘bit o’ rant’ regarding the lack of courage being demonstrated by municpal authorities in Calgary.
On January 1, 2007 Calgary finally became a smoke free city (well almost). No smoking in public places including restaraunts and bars and patios (to be defined). An exemption until January 1 2008 was given to Bingo Halls, Casinos, and bars that had installed separate ventalated rooms. Jan 1 comes and goes and a few bar owners are openly contraveening the bylaw and publically suggesting that there is nothing that can/will be done by enforcement officers. Now there has been a lot of nonsense around this issue with lobby groups coralling councillors and aldermen speaking out on the issue. The media has used secret cameras to show bars where smoking is continuing and suggesting that there has been a impact on business for both the complying bars and offending saloons. One bar owner is suggesting that more than 1/2 his revenue comes from VLTs so he should be treated like a casino. If that happened, he would need to share 50% of his revenue with a charity.
The action is clear - before this becomes a laughing stock again, officers need to clamp done as hard and fast as possible on offenders. Whether you agree with the bylaw, we can’t allow flagrant abuse of our rules. Warn them , fine them, close them down!
This will appear as a ‘bit o’ rant’ regarding the lack of courage being demonstrated by municpal authorities in Calgary.
On January 1, 2007 Calgary finally became a smoke free city (well almost). No smoking in public places including restaraunts and bars and patios (to be defined). An exemption until January 1 2008 was given to Bingo Halls, Casinos, and bars that had installed separate ventalated rooms. Jan 1 comes and goes and a few bar owners are openly contraveening the bylaw and publically suggesting that there is nothing that can/will be done by enforcement officers. Now there has been a lot of nonsense around this issue with lobby groups coralling councillors and aldermen speaking out on the issue. The media has used secret cameras to show bars where smoking is continuing and suggesting that there has been a impact on business for both the complying bars and offending saloons. One bar owner is suggesting that more than 1/2 his revenue comes from VLTs so he should be treated like a casino. If that happened, he would need to share 50% of his revenue with a charity.
The action is clear - before this becomes a laughing stock again, officers need to clamp done as hard and fast as possible on offenders. Whether you agree with the bylaw, we can’t allow flagrant abuse of our rules. Warn them , fine them, close them down!
Monday, July 9, 2007
Faith
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
The Muttart Foundation and Ipsos Reid released a study ” Talking About Charities 2006″ last week and the Executive Summary and report can be found at http://www.muttart.org/news.htm
Overall Canadians feel they are familiar with the important work of charities and they believe that charities are more effective at delivering services than the government. The report says that Canadians trust the leadership in the sector but would like greater accountability and transparency around spending.
A big issue for respondents was fundraising. Almost all expected that there would be costs associated with raising funds but saw the use of professional fundraisers as unacceptable. Interestingly more people than in 2000 felt that charities need to be involved in advocacy and that ” opinions expressed by charities on issues of public concern have value”. In the 2000 survey the methods of acceptable advocacy were softer in nature but in 2006 there was support for ’street protest’ advocacy.
The full report runs 88 pages but the Executive Summary (8 pages) offers a lot of detail.
The Muttart Foundation and Ipsos Reid released a study ” Talking About Charities 2006″ last week and the Executive Summary and report can be found at http://www.muttart.org/news.htm
Overall Canadians feel they are familiar with the important work of charities and they believe that charities are more effective at delivering services than the government. The report says that Canadians trust the leadership in the sector but would like greater accountability and transparency around spending.
A big issue for respondents was fundraising. Almost all expected that there would be costs associated with raising funds but saw the use of professional fundraisers as unacceptable. Interestingly more people than in 2000 felt that charities need to be involved in advocacy and that ” opinions expressed by charities on issues of public concern have value”. In the 2000 survey the methods of acceptable advocacy were softer in nature but in 2006 there was support for ’street protest’ advocacy.
The full report runs 88 pages but the Executive Summary (8 pages) offers a lot of detail.
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