Like an avalanche, the controversy over the bankrupt Canadian Museum for Human Rights is growing exponentially, with the same ultimate conclusion. Somebody is going to be buried under the rubble. This week alone two new fronts have opened up, either of which can blow holes in the museum's remaining reservoir of public support. 1. The CMHR, the cost of which is rapidly approaching $400 million, didn't have a project manager? This made us sit up and take notice. Reported first and exclusively in the blog Anybody Want A Peanut?, this revelation should send shock waves throughout Manitoba and right to Ottawa. http://anybody-want-a-peanut.blogspot.com/2012/01/cmhr-part-1-project-management.html Blogger Cherenkov wrote on Sunday: "I'm not a project manager by trade, but I have worked on projects and taken project management training and I am confident in saying this: if you want your project to come in on time and on budget it needs to be properly manag...
The origin of the Usher of the Black Rod goes back to early fourteenth century England . Today, with no royal duties to perform, the Usher knocks on the doors of the House of Commons with the Black Rod at the start of Parliament to summon the members. The rod is a symbol for the authority of debate in the upper house. We of The Black Rod adopted the symbol to knock some sense and the right questions into the heads of Legislators, pundits, and other opinion makers.