Right to Community – Increasingly Alone
When aspiring Republican U.S. presidential candidate Rick Santorum spoke at an economic club in Detroit last week he revealed just …
Category Archives: The New Internationalism
Good Love – A Valentine
In so many ways it’s hard to be good these days. I don’t mean telling the truth, getting the kids …
“A Remarkable Change in Man”
Being with the ElectroMotive workers on Saturday, the day following the announcement of that plant’s official closing, had an odd …
The City We Dream Of
The following is my column for the London Free Press on the day of the massive Electro Motive rally in …
The New Iron Curtain
Can capitalism be remade? Undoubtedly, but first we must dispose of its most frequent apologia that not all business is …
Roots
If the recently concluded Liberal convention in Ottawa showed anything, it was the pundit’s penchant for predicting the end of …
Labour Pains (7) – The Great Reversal
We’ve all heard the scenario, right? North American companies say wages and benefits are too high in Canada and that …
Labour Pains (6) – Take Protection
When the state of Wisconsin’s Republican-dominated assembly voted to strip the rights of public sector unions earlier this year it …
Labour Pains (4) – Stakeholders and Shareholders
A few months before I was born the locomotive plant in London that Caterpillar now owns opened its door to …
On Being Different
New Years becomes both an occasion to revisit our mortality and also a time when we hope we can experience …
