Dr. John Hollins, past Chair Canadian Club of Rome published an article in the Globe and Mail. CANADIAN CLIMATE Re Tough Math: Accounting For Climate Change (Editorial, Jan. 2) The Globe’s editorial reads: “The peril of climate change is recent.” Not as old as business itself, certainly, but what is actually recent is widespread appreciation of […]
HOW I PICK THE CHARITIES TO WHICH I DONATE
Decades ago, in an NGO’s in house journal, there was a sidebar about supporting your causes. The gist of it has stuck with me over the years: Give until it hurts! For the same NGO, I looked over, in some detail, the federal government’s list of charitable foundations and the causes they support. Three quarters […]
Climate Change: Its Impact and Policy Implications
A guest document developed for parliamentarians by the Library of Parliament This publication is one in a series to support parliamentarians at the start of the 43rd Parliament. It is part of the Library of Parliament’s research publications program, which includes a set of publications, introduced in March 2020, addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. Library of Parliament […]
Canada’s National and Provincial parks are effectively totally closed.
Dr. Ted Manning, CACOR Board of Directors, recent email exchange. Canada’s National and Provincial parks are effectively totally closed. As most are very large and distant from cities or towns. the closure of roads to or in them and of all park facilities has in effect shut them down. If you are able to park […]
Democracy in Canada: The Disintegration of Our Institutions
Dr. John Hollins, Past Chair, Canadian Club of Rome, Book review. Donald J. Savoie Democracy in Canada: The Disintegration of Our Institutions McGill-Queen’s University Press 2019 Donald Savoie observes that Canada possesses the building blocks of representative democracy: universal suffrage by secret ballot, a competitive party system, a free press, a professional public service, and […]