In the nicest, most polite way of course. I mean, am I not living proof of how sweet and gentle we Canadians are? We don’t gloat when we win Olympic hockey gold. No, not at all.  We would never commit such a sin of vanity. Well, maybe just a little. (my favourite part of the […]

When you refer to someone as ‘being Switzerland’, you aren’t likely to be accusing that person of being full of holes like Swiss Emmental, or delicious like Toblerone, or tall and slim like the Matterhorn. Chances are what you mean is that the person is refusing to take sides in a dispute, instead remaining neutral […]

What an ecologically responsible organization we have! Rather than just tossing past presidents into the trash like used diapers, EC recycles them! Though for some reason CEOs, which actually cost money to train and employ, are given the Huggies treatment faster than you can say ‘potty train’. Way to solve the downward spiral of a […]

From championing best practices to encouraging fun and participation, Equine Canada is a dedicated national voice working to serve, promote and protect the interests of horses and Canada’s equestrian community – it’s too bad we’re totally incompetent.  Temporary Career Opportunity – Chief Executive Officer  Equine Canada is the leading only national sport and equine organization […]

Happy 2014, Year of the Horse, everyone! I have all kinds of expectations and predictions for the coming year that I’m preparing to share with you,  but I would be doing 2013 a disservice if I didn’t give it a proper send off with my annual ‘best, worst, and ugliest’ list. So here we go […]

Hello everyone! I hope that this holiday season is filled with good food, good drink, and good times for you, your family and friends, and especially the animals. I’ll be doing my annual best and worst of the year wrap up just after New Year’s. For the next ten days I hope to be as […]

Have you heard about EC’s Special Reverse Advent Calendar? When you open a door, instead of receiving a little gift you find that something has been taken away. Yesterday we opened the cute little cardboard double doors with elves on them and found out that we no longer have a CEO at EC. Merry Christmas! […]

Last week I received a couple of press releases from the FEI that, even by their standards, were a bit on the strange side.  The oddest was probably the one with the headline that announced that a new ‘FEI TV on the Go’ app had been launched ‘ to mark St. Nicholas Day’. Say what? […]

Since the FEI never hesitates to correct me when I make a factual error on my blogs, I thought I would return the favour, and offer them a free geography lesson in today’s post. Dear FEI: Kentucky is not a city. It’s a state. In your press release of  November 15th, you said that “The […]

As my good friend and regular blog reader Jenn W. said to someone last week, if there was anything worse than letting me into the Olympic Qualification meetings at the FEI GA last week, it was NOT letting me into the meeting.  You might have seen my ‘disarmament’ confession from the GA last week, when […]