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I did not get the sense that they were going to force organizations to comply in a hurry, particularly in cases where there is only one person working in the office as is the case with the CFC and...

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I attended a Zoom call today with the Canadian Olympic Committee on the topic of their proposed Canadian Sport Governance Code for National Sports Organizations. Attached is a pdf of the...

One of my favourites was "Revolver" with Jason Statham which is a gangster movie full of aphorisms about life and chess along with some psychological sequences vaguely based on Freud, perhaps Jung...

On number 1, I will probably run but what happens will be up to the voting members. My last opponent didn't appear to show up for the last voting members meeting just concluded a week or so ago.
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We did discuss possibly holding off on the next meeting until May but tentatively the next meeting will be April 11 through April 18, 2021.

We did discuss possibly holding off on the next meeting until May but tentatively the next meeting will be April 11 through April 18, 2021.

There is a surprising amount of anti-vax sentiment. I am getting my vaccination as soon as I can. I volunteer to be a guinea pig. It may be useless due to a future mutation of COVID but at least it...

I believe we have until the end of March 2021 if my memory of the government website is correct. I will be talking to Bob Gillanders, Hal Bond and Fred McKim about this tomorrow, I suspect.

This thread was not as fully developed as I might have liked. We can continue the discussion on the CFC forums.

Special rules kick in when an AGM has not taken place for a specific period (18 months) after the anniversary of the last one.

While it is possible that the regulations have changed since I have...

Thank you to all the voting members who took part in this meeting and those who checked in but maybe didn't have much to add to the discussion. I would ask that if you want to continue discussion of...

A WADA violation would also be grounds for removal of an executive or even a voting member according to the WADA regulations that CECC is pushing. So if I had to take my insulin and blood pressure...

Changing bylaws in such a way that the structure of the organization changes requires a 2/3 majority. If we have an ethics committee similar to the one on the books no change is required. If as...

We really need for an effective vaccination program to be widely disseminated before we can talk about an in-person event.

We are not going to change the articles. That requires a two thirds majority and involves additional costs over and above changing bylaws which also require payment unless they have changed the rule.

FIDE is under Swiss law. We are under Canadian law and the NFP act. We cannot configure such a committee in the same way as FIDE has done theirs.

I think it would be important to look at how this is handled by other chess federations like the USCF, the English Chess Federation and FIDE. We did have a bit of a conversation on our forums but...

I am not sure how much this Buffet idea is derived from the Paretto Principle which states that 80% of the outcomes or outputs are derived from 20% of the actions or inputs. If you can identify the...

We actually have an ethics committee on the books going back to 2005 or maybe earlier. There just doesn't seem to be much interest in populating it. With all proposals there have to be champions...

I think Lyle was the one pushing this at the Executive level. I think we may be a bit late to the game as these things have to be done two years in advance.

I did initiate discussions on updating the strategic plan on the CFC discussion board as well in at least a couple of threads.
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In the 2020 AGM election, a couple of issues were thrown out there somewhat unfairly. One was the idea that I had somehow obstructed the idea of an ethics commission. In fact, no one had raised the...

There has been so much news in so many areas over the last five months that it is easy to forget some rather significant ones. Specifically the online merger of the CFC chess club on chess.com with...

I guess it was actually the FIDE Online council meeting.

Q4OC-2020/12. To authorize the FIDE President to finalize contracts for the organization of the World Cups in Russia in 2021 and the...