Recruiting a New Global Leader
The American decision to abandon leadership on the world stage and become self-seeking doesn’t require any others to follow suit. This time and these circumstances provide opportunities for the emergence
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The American decision to abandon leadership on the world stage and become self-seeking doesn’t require any others to follow suit. This time and these circumstances provide opportunities for the emergence
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Public school education is the most important social institution in a civil democratic society, more important than health care, social welfare, or environmental protection, because, of course, none of
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One mental exercise that I enjoy is speculating about alternate historic outcomes. For example, what might have been the course of World War II if the Japanese had attacked the
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The year just ended has been one of the most tumultuous in recent memory. The year ahead is likely to be even more so. History is always being made, but
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In Canada, the political issue of the moment is discussion of a selective boycott, divestment, and sanctions directed toward some Israeli corporate enterprises (both government and non-government). The conversation is
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As someone who has wrestled with the implications of separate school education for more than 35 years, I am very interested to read the recent Pastoral Letters from the Roman
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In August I was invited to the Banff Centre, to mingle with about 450 teachers for 3 1/2 days, as they explored and developed a variety of education-related issues and
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There are many people who could say, with conviction, “Decisions should be made as close as possible to the people who will implement them and live with the consequences.” It
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Trevor Harrison has written an interesting column that I read in the Winnipeg Free Press, headlined “Power Brokers Unwittingly Destroyed the Conservative Party“. They were certainly one cause of the
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A thoughtful reader has commented that he was surprised at the number of Albertans who ‘hated’ the N.D.P., notwithstanding the number of votes they received in the recent Alberta election.
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