by suzukiwebmaster | Apr 26, 2020 | Advocacy, Green Perspective
by Stan Hirst Sitting at my kitchen window and staring out at the North Shore street view on a promising spring day, I was struck by three things – how profoundly our lives have been impacted by something measuring just 0.000000089 metre in diameter; how fortunate I...
by suzukiwebmaster | Mar 30, 2020 | Advocacy, Rules of Engagement
by Stan Hirst I admit I first entitled this post “Love in the Time of Covid19”, but then thought better of it. For one thing it lacked a certain impact; secondly, I was secretly afraid of a visitation from the ghost of Gabriel García Márquez. Then I tried “From elders...
by suzukiwebmaster | Mar 3, 2020 | Advocacy, Developing Resilience, Green Perspective
by Heather Alberro It’s no coincidence that almost every single sector of industry is contributing to the planet’s downfall, either. A deeper issue underlies each one’s part in the malaise enveloping the planet’s ecosystems – and its origins date back to long before...
by suzukiwebmaster | Jan 29, 2020 | Advocacy, Opinions, Seeking Clarity
by Julia Maskivker For far too long, the accepted wisdom among scholars of politics has been that the interests of the individual and the interests of society are not in harmony when it comes to voting. The American economist Anthony Downs, in his foundational book An...
by suzukiwebmaster | Jan 24, 2020 | Advocacy, Opinions, Rules of Engagement
by Bob Worcester Many of us were rightfully shocked to read a recent report that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) were prepared to assign snipers to the removal of the Wet’suwet’en roadblock opposing the northern liquid natural gas (LNG) pipeline. Reports...
by suzukiwebmaster | Nov 23, 2019 | Advocacy, Developing Resilience, Green Perspective, Our Changing World
by Josef Kuhn & Ray Travers Climate change, unhealthy ecological and economic systems, and human conflict require a fresh approach to business and government in the twenty-first century. A rapidly growing number of Canadians and like-minded people in many...
