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What is time good for if it can be wasted.

  What is time good for?   Oh, you have heard it said, people think time is some scarce commodity to share sparingly. The clock mimics our internal cycles. In that sense time may be the perfect metaphor for our existence. "His mind is ticking like clock." Or more contemporarily, vibrating. I worked in the IT section at Corrections Canada for a period of about one year. I had the opportunity to chat informally with a prison psychoanalyst who explained that prisoners are watched and there are observations to be made of their behaviour. Things like the expectancy of a drug delivery would likely spur milling around and suspicious meetings and communications. That was intel to be used to tighten security at the visitors area. You don't have to be a prison psych to know you can actually observe people behavioural patterns co-relative to times.  Whichever time we are in we may have to acknowledge the role time setting implies to the overall situation. What is more, sleep, work a...

The Trouble with Memory

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Cound VS PIPSC 2024

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  Date:   20250414 File:   561-02-50766     KENTH COUND Complainant   and   PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTE OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE OF CANADA   Respondent Indexed as Cound v. Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada In the matter of a complaint made under section 190 of the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations Act Before:         Joanne Archibald, a panel of the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board For the Complainant:     Himself For the Respondent:    Tony Micallef-Jones, counsel   Decided on the basis of written submissions, filed September 30, November 6, 15, and 29, and December 19, 2024, and January 7, 2025 . Reasons for Decision               REASONS FOR DECISION            ...