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By Glen Pearson
It is highly possible for citizens to discuss their way into solutions. But that’s not how the political process works. There you have...
To create meaningful dialogue, good citizens display empathy more than emphasis. To understand and respect where the other person is coming...
True dialogue can begin with positions, but it should end in understanding. “Before the tongue can speak, it must lose the power to wo...
The genius of democracy is not how right, or even how smart we are. It is how open we are to find compromise that will permit us to move ahe...
Just two weeks left in these podcasts, but this is an important one. What happens if we get a chance to build an effective democracy as citi...
Political dysfunction has resulted in numerous efforts at citizen engagement across the board. Yet a sincere questions remains: are citizens...
It’s amazing that politics has so few referees. In times past it worked because there was a certain sense of nobility, respect, and co...
How we respond to developments is often predicated by how we were heard. Children learn early and instinctively that if they express an emot...
A collective purpose or elite agendas. London, Ontario’s large citizen engagement initiative, ReThink London, will end up with one or...
How is it that Canada – so well-respected for its peaceable efforts around the world – is now failing to bring peace to its own...
Great citizens don’t latch out and grab onto rigid ideologies that bring on political warfare. Great politicians don’t either. N...
If citizens check out of the political process, then it becomes increasingly easy for governments to do as they wish. We all know that. And...
For millennia people have regarded history as a linear event – moving forward at a steady pace over the years. But our present generat...
Political policies in the modern era have turned pitting the different generations – Baby Boomers, Generation X, Generation Y –...
We are living in age where we neglect public duties in favour of private delights. It comes commensurate with the great shift of our generat...
About 85% of the world’s youth live in developing nations – and they are growing restless, frustrated at the lack of opportunity...
1967 was not just our 100th birthday as a nation; it was the year Canada came out on the world stage looking young and vibrant. The governme...
Call it the “grey tsunami”. It’s about ready to wash over our communities, as within the next decade a quarter of our popu...
In a time of diminishing returns, nothing seems sure anymore. Where older generations took less for themselves in order to pass on more oppo...
Our communities will be as successful as they will be at transferring responsibilities and opportunities to the next generation of citizens....
If the future of our cities is in our youth, then what is the future of youth? It’s a simple question that carries profound implicatio...
Our civic duty is to invest and prepare for the next generation. Yet our present Baby Boom generation has actually taken away opportunities...
It sounds counterintuitive, but our governments are banking on decline. Running low on resources, they inwardly know the future will be some...
For almost the entirety of human history communities moved in cyclical fashion – following the sun, moon and the seasons. Yet not all...
It’s time to start building a local language of meaning. Our political vernacular is not longer the language of community but of the p...
By 2030, 60% of the world’s population will be living in cities. In a nation with one of the most urbanized populations on the planet...
While various forms of community renaissance are going on around the world, Canadian cities remain stuck in neutral, in part because of thei...
Say what you like about globalization and free trade, for our communities such supposed advantages left them with fewer options. When prospe...
The longer someone stays in politics, the more remote they become from their home constituencies. The throb of political life these days occ...
We might very well be walking the road to greater independence of our respective communities if the more senior levels of government don’t s...
A surprising call from a Conservative MP out West. Political theatre that is becoming increasingly remote. A partisanship that cripples our...
it becomes an increasing difficult reality when more senior levels of government swoop into our communities during campaign seasons in hopes...
Desperate times cause politicians to do desperate things. It’s tough enough for our communities to face difficult times, but when we take on...
Emerging entities – globalization, mass culture, the transcendence of money over meaning – have arisen in recent years to lay something of a...
Communities are feeling increasingly abandoned. Funding formulas among senior levels of governments have left our cities and regions on the...
London, Ontario is going through a significant city engagement process titled ReThink London and so far some 10,000 citizens have taken part...