TEDxCalgary – Donna Kennedy Glans – Volunteering: The Next Generation

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

Alberta tops all of U.S. in June job creation

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

By: Gary Lamphier Just how awful was Friday’s bleak U.S. jobs report? Let us count the ways: Alberta created more new jobs in June (22,000) than all 50 U.S. states combined (18,000), even though the U.S. population is 85 times larger than Alberta’s; The shockingly weak U.S. jobs tally was more than 80 per cent [...]


Auditor general finds a decade of failure in delivering basics to First Nations Read it on Global News: Auditor general finds a decade of failure in delivering basics to First Nations

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

OTTAWA – The federal government has failed, time and time again, to take measures that would improve the quality of life for First Nations, says the auditor general in a new report. The basics of life – education, child welfare, clean drinking water and adequate housing – are persistently and dramatically substandard, and in some [...]


Plans for Harper’s native summit begin to take shape

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

By: Heather Scoffield An agenda for a first nations summit with the prime minister is beginning to take on solid form. After years of waiting for a formal process to replace the failed Kelowna Accord for fixing native poverty, the Assembly of First Nations says it is now receiving signals from the new Conservative government [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]


TEDx: Wielding Hope like an Axe

Saturday, June 19th, 2010