Not exactly your typical household Christmas tree, I grant, but here’s a tree – for you – for Christmas. Since long before the advent of Christianity, people – particularly those in Europe and other northern climes –celebrated the solstice and the turning of the year by adorning…
Canada’s history is rife with tales of struggle and hardship, of brave souls enduring the elements, building lives and communities often against great odds. Our stories tend, often, toward the personal, the intimate, rather than grand spectacles and epic events, and our true heroes are as likely to be our…
This inspirational quotation by Vivian Greene popped into my head recently as I was reading Naomi Klein’s extraordinary book “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate”. If you haven’t yet read this book, then I recommend (no, I insist) that you do. Klein does a remarkable job not only…
– by Ian Fawcett I don’t know of any charitable organization, or any other “not-for-profit” organization, that doesn’t try to gain a greater “return” than the value of the resources they “invest” in their work. That’s how they continue to exist, pay the bills, and get their work done. That’s…
