At 192 Spadina Avenue in downtown Toronto, close to Lake Ontario, stands an industrial heritage building that houses the Centre for Social Innovation. The centre provides hospitable co-working and office space to a variety of creative nonprofits. One of those is the Intercultural Dialogue Institute for the Greater Toronto Area (IDI GTA). A few artisanal…
Although I consider myself reasonably knowledgeable about the world around me, I have too often initially heard the name of a prominent person on the occasion of his or her death. Somehow I have managed to miss certain people’s fame or notoriety while they were still alive, probably because I travelled in different circles and…
I’ve made my share of jokes about civil servants who don’t seem to be working hard. My grandfather, a very quiet and non-judgemental man, started me off thinking about this. We were driving down County Road G near Cedar Grove, Wisconsin, and some employees of the township were repairing the road. Grandpa pulled over and…
For those who haven’t signed up for Dry January, the local pub could be considered a supervised consumption site. Customers consume addictive, unhealthy substances to feel better in the short term. Trained staff, rules of operation, bouncers and laws provide guard-rails to prevent or control excess. Society condones it and many governments benefit from it…
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