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Finally, there are adaptive institutions that "are geared to the flexible process of continuous search and modification which is the essence of planning at the higher levels of 'future-creative' planning, namely the levels of strategies and policies" (143) We need to do much more to advance our unde...
By running a Tough Mudder challenge, you'll unlock a true sense of accomplishment, have a great time, and discover a camaraderie with your fellow participants that's experienced all too rarely these days ...
Madame Marois, as is her wont, immediately heightened the absurdity by insisting that Quebec's ancient symbols of religious patrimony such as public-space Christmas trees—a 19th-century import from Prussian Protestants popularized by the British Royal Family—and the Cross in the provincial legislatu...
Many countries not fortunate enough to enjoy the benefits of constitutional monarchy have adapted that to be loyal to "God and my country" (whatever unfortunate republican construct that may be), and in so doing it is fair to say they have retained the original principles intended by the pledge But ...
A people enslaved for centuries were freed by this document of ethical monotheism It was in this vast unknown that the greatest revolution in human history took place: the revelation of the Word of God at Mount Sinai We knew that ethical monotheism was a great revolutionary gift in the evolution of ...
Are institutions today the old buildings of Robert Moses time? They seem to be less chic, awkward hold-overs from the prosaic past, and so one wonders if we are not in the midst of repeating within our social realm what we have done architecturally, ecologically, and culturally Standing in the middl...
The proposed new union will dedicate 10% of its revenue to new organizing (compared with the present 2-7% for the CAW and 8% for the CEP) and will focus much of its resources towards broadening the reach of the labour movement We form our union in the determination that equality and social justice w...
The PQ wants to adopt a secular charter for Quebec which will ensure the neutrality of the state toward all religions, but One can agree—as I do—that the state should not privilege any particular religion, yet still find all kinds of problems with such a "secular charter ...
How many of us really care about any of it? How many, like me, felt an overwhelming need to comb their cats or change the oil on their pianos when the conversation turned to the Olympics, much less when TV coverage of the games monopolized hour after hour on channel after channel? How many, like me,...
The services of Team Canada's Stewart, for instance, were declined by Team USA, so Canada became an alternative option to not only pursue her ambitions on the field but to serve her "other" country ...
When subordinated to such things, life is cheap and dispensable and the culture of death prevails ...
"Rather than punishing people who use drugs but do no harm to others," the report states, "governments must offer them access to effective HIV and health services, including harm reduction programmes In its report released last month, the Global Commission on HIV and the Law called for the decrimina...
My gushing about peaches attests to how much I agree with Hopkins that the world is charged with the grandeur of God After all, Psalm 148 tells us that peach trees can praise the Lord with the same volume as "young men and women, old men and children ...
Ontario is in a dire financial position, but try telling that to teachers or the public service in general Last year Ontario taxpayers contributed $1.4 billion to the Teachers' Fund in regular contributions, plus an additional $525 million in top-up payments to be allocated towards the massive multi...
Maybe we are not alone, but are in fact in a universe charged with "the grandeur of God"—vast and unimaginable, poking and prodding human intellect to nobler truths than self-interest and fear, to better moral and political impulses than survival and pleasure ...