Change, including personal, organizational, and cultural
In the summer of 2015 I spoke to the Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA) Banff Summer Conference. To-day, I am back with the ATA, in Banff, with teachers and researchers from
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The Democrats need to listen to Bucky Fuller, and build a new model. As in Field of Dreams: if you build it, they will come.
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 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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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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Congratulations Ms. Notley! Premier-Designate Notley may be exhausted by an exciting and successful campaign. She gets no respite. It is noon on Election Day, plus 1, and Ms. Notley is
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Alberta is about to change, for good. In 16 hours the polls will be closed in Alberta. The election itself will be history. (The aftermath will undoubtedly be as interesting
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As the Alberta election campaign comes to a close, and as the P.C.s become frantic, we hear two new arguments being made. 1. Albertans are being told — stridently —
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Readers will know that I was a 15 year P.C. M.L.A. and a Cabinet Minister for 7 years in the early years of Alberta’s Progressive Conservative government. In fact, I
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