So this is happening

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Elbows Up Webinar

About 1000 people joined the Webinar flowing out of the Elbows Up Summit. If you weren’t one of the 1000 here’s a recording of the hour long discussion. Have a look and a listen. And please share it with others. Spread the word. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWVyUvn8lk0

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There is an Alternative: A Better Path to a Better Future

We won’t build a less dependent, more just, sustainable, and resilient Canada following the same path that got us here. We need a new map.  Here is a compendium of articles flowing out of the Elbows Up Economic Forum -which was not just about economic policy, recognizing that we must stop treating the economy as something … Continue reading →

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ELBOWS UP

Just want to alert you to a webinar flowing out of the Elbows Up Summit – an alternative to the corporate view of how to build a more resilient Canada – held in Ottawa last month which we (Pledge for Canada) were proud to co-sponsor and participate in. Here’s a link to the backgrounder prepared … Continue reading →

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Part 3: AM I OPTIMISTIC AND, IF SO, HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE 

Part 3: Looking for optimism in troubled times So, where are we and where are we headed?  Italian political theorist Antonio Gramsci, writing in prison in the 1930s when liberal democracy was under siege and fascism on the rise (sound familiar?), described these in between times as an interregnum, the old world dying, the new world … Continue reading →

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Part 2: Am I optimistic and, if so, how is that even possible

Part 2: The decline of the collective  Sociologist Zygmunt Bauman argued that across the global west we’ve organized ourselves such that our collective action problems — what we can only solve together — have hit the level of “polycrisis,” while our collective toolkit – public power – has rarely been weaker. Nowhere is that more evident than … Continue reading →

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Part 1: AM I OPTIMISTIC AND, IF SO, HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?

I just had a piece published by Alberta Views here on hope and optimism and their opposites. As happens with magazine pieces, much changed between writing and publication: the frightening speed at which US democracy is being dismantled; the constantly shifting trade wars; the new divide in America and the world between appeasers and resisters; the … Continue reading →

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Let’s not do that again

Let’s not do this again. Let’s not have another election in which many Canadians, I have no doubt, voted not for the party that best captured their aspirations for Canada but against the party they most feared or with which they were most angry. In a time of high stakes when unity is crucial we … Continue reading →

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Denialism

I have been thinking lately about the great seductive appeal of denialism, of pretending bad news away in this era of polycrisis. It’s easy to be overwhelmed by our multiple layered crises. The phrase “existential crisis” is used so frequently now its losing its impact – though certainly not its relevance. There are of course … Continue reading →

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