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Dan Rather: Watermelons, Washington, and What We Call News Today
Much of what we call news, isn’t. Much of what we Tweet, or post, or chat away at under the guise of news, are distractions.
The optimist in me believes that we are not as polarized as the partisans on the left and right would want us […]

UN report identifies problems with Somalia aid
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon should open an investigation into the distribution of food aid intended for civilian populations affected by violence in Somalia, a new Security Council report recommends. Contractors, local UN staff and Islamic militants are diverting as much as half of the […]

Arianna Huffington: Is Undercover Boss the Most Subversive Show on Television?
(HuffPost) Undercover Boss, the new CBS reality show in which corporate CEOs don disguises and spend a few days experiencing what it’s like to be a low-level worker at their companies, is the kind of popular entertainment that can start out as one thing — […]

The countdown is officially on – less than 10 days before that really special event in February (the one that no one can’t scalp an exorbitantly priced ticket to, because it’s invitation only!!) – yes, Wednesday Salon West is being reconvened again.
This months’ topics (and GREAT appreciation to all who sent in these GREAT suggestions) […]

October 2008
The Conference Board of Canada has published Canada’s Pathways Toward Global Innovation Success: Report of the Leaders’ Panel on Innovation-Based Commerce, Conference Board of Canada, Report by Guy Stanley
Let’s focus our innovation efforts
By David Mitchell, Citizen Special August 18, 2009
A business executive, a research scientist and a senior bureaucrat all walk into a […]

December 2009
Gifts, Glitz and Guilt
As requests for help arrive daily - if not hourly - from all kinds of meritorious groups, we have christened this the season of the three Gs - Gifts, Glitz, and Guilt. How often do we give or receive gifts that are glitzy, amusing, but have little meaning and less […]

Work in progress

The politics of religion
Divine will is clear.  A morally pure life will be rewarded, a sinful life punished in the afterlife.  In the end, the world will be cleansed of sinners and only the just shall survive.  The problem lies with those mortals who interpret the ground rules to their own […]

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Professor Paul Shrivastava, Director and Distinguished Professor of the David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise at the John Molson School of Business was introduced by his colleague at Concordia, Felix von Geyer, who, in outlining Paul’s many interests and activities mentioned that he had recently turned down an invitation to […]