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 27, 2019 | Developing Resilience, Rules of Engagement
by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong Many of my best friends think that some of my deeply held beliefs about important issues are obviously false or even nonsense. Sometimes, they tell me so to my face. How can we still be friends? Part of the answer is that these friends and...
by suzukiwebmaster | Apr 23, 2019 | Advocacy, Book Reviews, Rules of Engagement
Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua Penguin Random House | 2018 | 304 pages Amy Chua is probably best known through social media as the Tiger Mom following widespread publication of her 2011 Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. More...
by suzukiwebmaster | Apr 15, 2019 | Developing Resilience, Rules of Engagement, Seeking Clarity
by Don Marshall and David MacQuarrie 2019 Salon on Climate Change Conversations The Suzuki Elders presented a Salon on February 28, 2019 on climate change conversations. The important byline was “How to have them without everyone walking out of the room”. Attended by...
by suzukiwebmaster | Feb 11, 2019 | Advocacy, Our Changing World, Rules of Engagement
by Diana Ellis and Stan Hirst In the fall of 2018 David Suzuki dropped by the monthly meeting of the Council of Elders in Vancouver, B.C. Some weeks earlier the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had issued its IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of...
by suzukiwebmaster | Sep 17, 2018 | Advocacy, Our Changing World, Rules of Engagement
On 10 September 2018, António Guterres, the ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations, made a major address to warn of the global threat posed by climate change and to point to the massive benefits that climate action could and should generate. He called on...
