Greetings, In this week’s newsletter, I want to talk about a situation where a system failed to catch something, while another system succeeded to catch something. The plot twist is that both outcomes are bad. Keep reading to see if you agree with me. I live in the Town

Greetings, We've made it to June. We are one month away from the start of Q3 (July-August-September). Although we don't deliver public shareholder earnings, I find the Q1-Q2-Q3-Q4 business & finance system more useful than semesters/sessions (when I programmed swim

Greetings & Happy Wednesday, Ken Sim, the mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, would like the city to offer free swim lessons. You can read the meeting minutes from the May 20, 2026 Council meeting here. I want to start by saying that I support the idea of free or heavily-

Good Afternoon, Two years ago this week, I was at the Atlantic Recreation Facilities Conference (ARFC) in Saint John, New Brunswick presenting on lifeguard workplace injuries & fatalities - yes, fatalities. That presentation is available on our YouTube channel here, in case you haven't seen it. Sadly, it'

Greetings, Each week I use the start of the newsletter to talk about something that's interesting to me, and this week is no different, but I have two smaller items rather than one big topic. (1) I had an interaction this week that really highlighted to me that

Greetings, I've been spending much of the last week diving deep into Ontario swimming pool regulations and standards. It's been an interesting exercise because it takes me back to my grad school years at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where I'd spend hours, sometimes

Good Morning & Happy Wednesday! ICYMI, we have a new-ish anonymous advice column for all your burning pool questions that you are too embarrassed to ask. One of the questions I received: I am noticing more and more AI generated content within messaging (not your newsletters) but in full

Good Morning & Happy Friday, If you are a new subscriber, the goal is to get the newsletter out on Wednesdays (no specific time) but - as I shared in the audio version of last week's newsletter - we are going through staffing/admin transitions right now, so that just

Greetings, I didn't expect to be talking about chlorine gas again this week (ICYMI April 8, 2026: Chlorine gas in Canmore) but just after last week's newsletter, there was also a chorine gas incident at a swimming pool in British Columbia. Chlorine gas exposure at Victoria