If leadership is example, Canadians need more than empty selfies

  “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” — Warren Bennis (pioneer of Leadership studies) By Larry McCloskey If only. Regrettably, the modern political landscape of past weeks exposes leaders whose unwillingness to see reality translates vision into tragedy. Vladamir Putin’s sick quest to re-assemble the corrupt empire of the

An immodest proposal for change to climate change

 By Larry McCloskey Jonathan Swift proposed that poor Irish parents alleviate poverty by selling their babies to the aristocracy as a delicatessen in, “A Modest Proposal.” Just to be clear in these humourless politically polarized times, he was kidding; that is, his 1729 Juvenalian straight-faced satire was meant to provoke

Inarticulate Speech of the Heart

  by Larry McCloskey    “A young guy who had roared down country lanes on his motorcycle in the liberating spring after a Canadian winter lay imprisoned in a room with three other spinal cord patients, windows shut to keep summer from seeping in, with a novice unwanted stranger doing unwanted strange

On Faith, Mystery and Nothingness

 By Larry McCloskey   “There’s only one story: the story of your life.” N. Frye My father had it, though I know at times he doubted. My aunt--a devout nun of 65 years--had it more than my father. Still, both my father and my aunt deferred to my mother as the