Much ado about twenty-four

 “Awake, my country, the hour of dreams is done! Doubt not, nor dread the greatness of thy fate.”  — From An Ode to the Canadian Confederacy (1886) by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts (1860-1943) On the 28th of March 1972, a CBC television series called “Images of Canada” aired an

Designs and Democracy: The politics of imperfectly levelled playing fields

 One of the facts of life on the water is that reckless operators of boats are legally responsible for their wake damage. But you have to catch them first. In the politics of democracies, it’s even more of a free-for-all, but sometimes your wake damage does catch up with you.

Public Servants Series: Norway Shows Canada a Better Way

 In Canada, we have much to be thankful for. But as a society we still struggle with equality rights and, as wealthy as we are as a nation, we don’t provide a guaranteed standard of living to all our citizens, most notably many of our aboriginal people who still live