Aging Is As Aging Does : Don’t expect the baby boomers to slip submissively...
By now, we’ve been pretty much terrorized by the demographers’ prophesies of the coming apocalypse of an aging society. The health-care system will collapse under the weight of geriatric care. The...
View ArticleThe Christian Comeback
Churches across Canada are flush with born-again converts, and awakening from a long political slumber. Why the Canadian left needs to duft off its Bible. Lately, the forces of organized Christianity...
View ArticleIdentity Crisis
Originally appeared in March 2006 Walrus Magazine Under the cover of normalcy, on July 7, 2005, the heart of London was bombed and dozens of people were killed by young Muslim men who had grown up in...
View ArticleProductivity isn’t just a talking point
There is a general consensus that Canada has a productivity gap. Yet the issue refuses to capture the public’s imagination or to take a higher priority on the nation’s political agenda. Claims that the...
View ArticlePublic Policy Forum Address April 26th
A few years ago, as part of my TV Ontario program, I interviewed Naomi Klein and I asked her how it could be that her contemporaries and generation, who were so obviously connected to the world they...
View ArticleChanging our world, one question at a time
In 1905, from his small cubicle in a patent office in Zurich, Albert Einstein issues four papers that forever change our understanding of theoretical physics and the functioning of the cosmos. In the...
View ArticleRethinking Progress
Notes for Remarks to Carleton University 2017 Convocation – June 15, 2017 Mr. Chancellor, Chair of the Board, Madam President, Graduates, Honoured Guests and Proud Parents …. This is an honour…. but...
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