Especially when we can’t even get a handle on some of the worst social issues in the country? Iqaluit Mayor Madeleine Redfern has two Twitter accounts on which she chronicles the ups and downs of the Nunavut capital. On the plus side of her online ledger is the recent catch of a 70-tonne bowhead whale [...]
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The Shape of Things To Come
60 Minutes had a feature on the budget crisis’ that are happening at the state level. Stay with me on this one. "The most alarming thing about the state issue is the level of complacency," Meredith Whitney, one of the most respected financial analysts on Wall Street and one of the most influential women in [...]
Stephen Lewis: The PMO Might Not Be The Best People To Run a Security Council Campaign
From CTV News Lewis, who also served as the UN’s special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, said the government bungled its campaign. "I got the impression in this election for the Security Council that the Prime Minister’s Office actually didn’t know what it was doing, that it was too arrogant, it didn’t have a careful [...]
The Cold Shoulder?
There is a good article in the Walrus on why Canadians have not warmed up to Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff. Despite his earlier run for the prize, Ignatieff remained an unknown quantity, a stranger in our midst. He was our first deconstructionist politician: he kept repeating that political leadership was about storytelling without ever telling [...]
Resonate 3.0 (beta)
Well Resonate is back online with a new look and feel and the website is now powered by WordPress. You can check out what Resonate is up to as a community, find out information about church planting, and also a listing of some of the emerging churches across the country. The RSS feed and Twitter [...]
Canadian Medicare Does Work
I have watched with bemusement seeing Republicans denouncing Canada’s socialist Medicare system and how it doesn’t work. While the system isn’t perfect, it does work. Since Saskatchewan is the birthplace of Medicare, I thought I would offer up some thoughts. The positives It’s free. I have had two shoulder surgeries over the the years. Resetting [...]
More Stimulus?
Paul Krugman feels we need a bigger stimulus package. Since the recession began, the U.S. economy has lost 6 ½ million jobs — and as that grim employment report confirmed, it’s continuing to lose jobs at a rapid pace. Once you take into account the 100,000-plus new jobs that we need each month just to [...]
Happy Canada Day
To celebrate I’ll quote Malcolm Gladwell talking about what he learned about the United States. In history class, in seventh grade (or as we like to say in Canada, grade seven) we learned the story of the American Revolution — from the British perspective. Turns out you were all a bunch of ungrateful tax cheats. [...]
One Good Example, One Bad Example
Newsweek is pointing to Canada as an example to follow in terms of banking regulation. The legendary editor of The New Republic, Michael Kinsley, once held a "Boring Headline Contest" and decided that the winner was "Worthwhile Canadian Initiative." Twenty-two years later, the magazine was rescued from its economic troubles by a Canadian media company, [...]
The Missional Church in Canadian Context
An interesting discussion paper (PDF) by David Horrox is an elder at Grace Presbyterian Church in West Hill, Ontario. Where we are Although Canadian churches believe that it has the answer or humanity’s problems in the message of Jesus Christ, its message is largely ignored. Faith is now a totally private matter. Allowing for Stockwell [...]
