Calgary—A Mecca for Social Entrepreneurs

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

By: Donna Kennedy-Glans Calgary is a cultural mecca. Just this past week, I toasted Robbie Burns at the home of a Scottish friend, and was invited to the home of another Calgarian, of French extraction, to celebrate Fete des Rois. And, these cultural celebrations aren’t slowing down:  Chinese New Year is February 3rd…and then it’s [...]

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Bring Me Sunshine

Monday, November 15th, 2010

THE ECONOMIST|Nov 11th 2010 DAVID CAMERON’S Conservatives have always been more interested in ideas than their reputation for pragmatism suggests. In opposition, his inner team flirted with a series of political theories, from “libertarian paternalism” to “red Toryism”, which they thought might underpin their policies. Since taking office, they have invited a succession of digital [...]

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D.I.Y. Foreign-Aid Revolution

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Like so many highly trained young women these days, Elizabeth Scharpf has choices. She could be working in a Manhattan office tower with her Harvard Business School classmates, soaring through the ranks as a banker or business executive and aspiring to become a senator or a C.E.O. someday. After all, there’s [...]

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To kick their illegal tobacco habit, first nations need other opportunities

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

By: Joseph Quesnel The Ontario Tobacco Research Unit estimates that 20 per cent of cigarettes consumed in Canada are illegal. Many of these cigarettes are made on or channelled through Canadian native reserves, sold to aboriginals and non-aboriginals in roadside “smoke shacks.” With no federal or provincial taxes, they are much cheaper than cigarettes sold [...]

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Bringing together for profit and for purpose: Moving from “Me” to “We”

Monday, July 5th, 2010

The line dividing for profit companies and for purpose charities used to be firm. People worked in companies to make money. If you were fortunate, you were able to put aside some of your hard-earned cash (either wages or corporate profits). Then, you could donate some of your personal savings or corporate profits to charities [...]

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Wielding hope like an axe part 2

Monday, July 5th, 2010

In the last blog, I introduced Canada Bridges’ youth leadership and social entrepreneurial program. Launching the Unveiling Youth Potential program has taken a lot of work, by a lot of people. With all the youth leadership and social entrepreneurial programs already in place, does the world really need yet another program? Will this program make [...]

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Wielding hope like an axe part 1

Monday, July 5th, 2010

On Christmas Day 2009, a 23-year old Nigerian of Muslim faith trained in Yemen tried to blow up a plane enroute from Amsterdam to Detroit using explosives he’d hidden in his underwear. We’re all living with the aftermath of this attempt: intense airport security checks, Star Wars style full-body scanners, tough questions about the profiling [...]

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