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What do warships, payroll services, vaccines and muffins have in common? They are all things our governments are incapable of buying.
Let’s start with muffins. Back in 2009, I was horrified when the then-Ontario Auditor General Jim McCarter reported that an eHealth consultant had expensed a tea and muffin. The amount expensed was … wait for it … $3.26.
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Oddly, the muffin was not the main focus of the audit. McCarter was principally concerned with more than a billion dollars wasted on ill-fated efforts to produce electronic health records.
Publication Date
February 4, 2021
It’s been a prodigious few years for faculty-writers in the Department of English, some of whom will read and discuss their works in the first of two events on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021 at 6 p.m.
The event is hosted by Sigma Tau Delta, the national English honors society, and faculty will be in conversation with students about their newly published work.
(The second Faculty Book Launch is set for Thursday, April 8, 2021 at 6 p.m.)
The Feb. 18 event will feature:
Shena McAuliffe, assistant professor, the author of a novel,
“I went over to meet her, and I couldn’t hear a word she said, but she seemed nice!” Those words, or variations of such, resounded like a jukebox favorite at Ginny’s Little Longhorn. As owner and proprietor 1993-2013, Ginny Taylor Kalmbach, who passed away on Wed., Dec. 30, 2020, rarely spoke above a few decibels. Ginny’s regulars circa 2002-2003, cheers: (l-r) Terry Gaona, Steph Swope, Will White, Ginny Kalmbach, Roger Wallace, Satomi Chiba Neil, Shannon Johnston, Keith Crippen (Photo by Cynthia Coffey)
Ginny wasn’t unfriendly or shy. She was funny, generous, kind, and many other things to many other people. One thing she definitely was at Ginny’s Little Longhorn: in charge. Ginny didn’t speak loud because she didn’t have to. That, and she wasn’t the type to shout – even over the din of a Saturday night honky-tonk band at full throttle.