I may not be addicted to my Blackberry so much as I just really love it. Friends who have accidentally left home without their iPhones tell me they feel stressed-out, cut off and somehow un-whole. That sounds a lot like separation anxiety to me. Not long ago, I headed an effort to identify the 10 [...]
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Why all of your employees should be VIPs
From Holler.com Walking home from the fourth annual f8 conference earlier this week I kept wondering why I hadn’t gone over to the massive Sean Parker/Spotify after party. Over the past few years, Facebook’s f8 after party was an opportunity to schmooze with people of all levels within the company. This year however, the “A-List” [...]
Architecture as a force to deal with poverty?
As Paris is finding, it may be overestimating the power of architecture Balzac has now been emptied, though, and a spidery mechanical arm tears away at it each day. The towering wall of stained concrete and tile, once 600 feet long and 16 stories high, is to be replaced by a cluster of smaller units, [...]
What do Mark and Oliver cost?
Between the two of them it will cost Wendy and I over $400,000 according to the Christian Science Monitor The setting is their spacious three-bedroom, 2,100-square-foot suburban home in a neighborhood chosen for the good schools (median home price: $379,000). The kitchen is sizzling as Samantha Gianulis cooks up a comparatively costly meal, both in [...]
The end of multi-culturalism?
I was quite discouraged to read these comments by German chancellor Angela Merkel. Mrs Merkel told a gathering of younger members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party on Saturday that at "the beginning of the 60s our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country… [...]
The Grind of Poverty
"Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings." Nelson Mandela This is the third in a series on poverty, homelessness, and a concentration of services in Saskatoon’s inner city. You can find part 1 and part 2 in the [...]
Why We Are So Lonely
From Alternet Community may suffer from overuse more sorely than any word in the dictionary. Politicians left and right sprinkle it through their remarks the way a bad Chinese restaurant uses MSG, to mask the lack of wholesome ingredients. But we need to rescue it; we need to make sure that community will become, on [...]
Good Business: Comet Skateboards
A cool video on Comet Skateboards and how they moved from Oakland, California to Ithaca, New York and made the transition into their new city and neighborhood by making a commitment to being good neighbors and giving back to the community. It’s a lesson many organizations and some churches could learn.
Saskatoon has a substance abuse problem
Last night Wendy, Mark, and Oliver came along as I picked up Christmas kettles at the malls and collect them to be counted. As I was driving from Wal-Mart in Confederation Mall along 22nd Street to Midtown Plaza. A women just walked out in front of three lanes of incoming traffic. Below is a screen [...]
