Dr. John Hollins, past Chair CACOR Board of Directors, considers “Microgrids: renewables and resilience” Reduce emissions while keeping the lights on – always For millennia the renewable sources of wind and water have been used to provide intermittently useful energy in small quantities; they still are in the less developed world. For more than a […]
RED HATRED AND WHITE FEAR
Dr. Nicole Morgan, CACOR member, addresses hate and politics. The history of political violence is both titillating and reassuring. With the help of political philosophy, it puts an order in chaos by revealing repetitions, cycles, rhythms, dialectical movements, or according to Mark Twain for “history, he said, does not repeat, but rhymes “. This is […]
Climate Emergency? Really?
Dr. John G. Hollins, past Chair CACOR Board of Directors addresses political buzz phrases. If language is not used rightly, then what is said is not what is meant. If what is said is not what is meant, then that which ought to be done is left undone. Confucius The term climate emergency is the […]
Phoenix: No Chance of Rising from the Ashes, Ever
Dr. John Hollins, past chair, CACOR, reviews the civil service pay system. It is clear from the report of the Senate Committee on National Finance that the Canadian federal pay system is a large and complex operation with many variables. The study of the control and management of complex systems, cybernetics, was launched in 1956 […]
The terms of doing business — overseas
Dr. John Hollins, past chair of CACOR considers “The terms of doing business — overseas” This is a commentary on the place of Canadian business in the big wide world, not only in the “developing” world, but also in some “developed” countries. The SNC-Lavalin brouhaha has much broader dimensions than being the blame game du […]