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 […]
John Ivison:Timely book warns that Canada’s democracy is threatened by political abuse
Dr John Hollins, past CACOR Chair Board of Directors, posted this book review from the Ottawa Citizen. Political power is no longer located in Parliament, political parties, Cabinet or the bureaucracy. It is held by the PM, his advisers, lobbyists and the rich John Ivison, Ottawa Citizen, September 3, 2019 Just as the Trojans learned […]
What is government good at? A Canadian Answer
Dr. John Hollins, past Chair CACOR reviews the book: What is government good at? A Canadian Answer [1] by Donald Savoie [2] Donald Savoie argues that politicians and the top layer of public servants are good at: o managing an organisation dominated by the prime minister of the day: responding to demands from the prime […]
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
Robert Hoffman, CACOR member, book review. Pearl, Judea and Mackenzie, Dana. (2018). The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect. New York: Basic Books. (kindle edition) The Book of Why, written by UCLA professor of computer science Judea Pearl and science writer Dana Mackenzie, describe in non-mathematical language the intellectual content of […]
Has the Horse Bolted with the Internet of All Things?
By Lalith Gunaratne, CACOR member. I am disappointed and dismayed of our modern world after reading two interesting and scary books back to back – Yuval Noah Hariri’s Homo Deus and Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction. Is this where we have come to after all these years of scientific and technological development?. Greed and expedience seems to thrive […]
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