In 2009, George Colombo produced a New Yorker cover using an iPhone app called Brushes. When neighbours referred to him as the guy who draws on his phone, he corrected them: “I occasionally make phone calls on my easel!” The … Continue reading
I was invited along with two others speakers to kick off the Social Enterprise Bootcamp at CBU. Meghan Farrell of Nova Scotia Coop Council and Leah Noble of Dream Big Cape Breton spoke first about looking for assets in our … Continue reading
The Cape Breton Post’s editorial cartoon by Sean Casey of Cape Breton Ink is brilliant because it lends itself to interpretation. I hope that when people see this cartoon they see beyond the hipster facial hair, piercings, sneakers and slang … Continue reading
Published in The Cape Breton Post comment section (print only) on Monday, March 5, 2012 CBRM Mayor John Morgan should seek input from the community on a more regular basis, and with a deeper commitment to giving that input its … Continue reading
In April 2010, I published this post on my old blog, The Bike Lane, which no longer exists. An article shared on Facebook today reminded me of it. Westerners see themselves as culturally neutral, unwilling to see our own fashion … Continue reading
In the Community Economic Development MBA program at CBU, our Economic Geography professor tested our reading comprehension by having us summarize one of the assigned readings. I chose Richard Florida’s “Cities and the Creative Class”. The City as an object … Continue reading
It’s Movember. Here’s the thing, we all know my moustache sucks. It’s a sorry excuse for facial hair, it makes me look like a creep, and it took a full week to even grow something that shows up in the … Continue reading
The philosophy cafe is a discourse among consenting adults. It happens every second Friday, from 2:30-4pm, at the Pit Lounge on the campus of CBU. (See the schedule of upcoming events here.) Somebody gives a short introduction to the chosen … Continue reading
Capitalism is in crisis: this is clear to anyone paying attention to world events. But rather than rehashing the same old critique, the fifth annual “Human Security Forum” will examine alternatives to business-as-usual economics. A project of the Centre for … Continue reading
Is a profound change in our attitudes towards animals morally required? What are the limits of tolerance in a pluralistic society? What makes human consciousness unique? Is university a racket? These are some of the questions being asked at this … Continue reading