John Hollins, Book Review. Reinventing Prosperity by Graeme Maxton and Jurgen Randers Greystone / David Suzuki Foundation, 2016 A review “For most of the last thirty years, unemployment has been rising in the rich world, while the gap between rich and poor has been widening. This is not what conventional economists said should happen.” This […]
A Review of How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: the Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need (by Bill Gates)
This is a book review provided by T. David Dougherty, a member of the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome, in December 2021. Recommendation I think everyone, including climate scientists, technology entrepreneurs, politicians, and ordinary citizens could benefit from reading this book. If enough of us did so, it would help create the common […]
Bright Green Lies – book review
Review Comments on “Bright Green Lies” by Gordon Kight Review by Gordon Kubanek, P.Eng., CACOR Board member, Third Order Franciscan An inner struggle of mine that I have put to sleep was awoken recently during the recent CACOR presentation by Alan Jones entitled “The perfect storm: Canada’s future in peril”. In it he made the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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