Bringing Participatory Process to Peterborough
MP's town halls are flirting with new ways of inviting citizens into ownership of their futurePETERBOROUGH - Canadian Federal Member of Parliament Maryam Monsef’s recent community gatherings in her...
View ArticleUniversal Citizen Income: The Way Forward
When governments value people they find creative ways of making people even more valuable in their local economies and communities. In turn, people return the compliment by contributing to the building...
View Article'Peers and Turkeys' Help Us See the Real Social Enterprise Challenge,...
Social enterprise is the business model used to create a social-value marketplace and provide the economic foundation for healthy and inclusive communities. We often refer to social enterprise as a...
View ArticleDrive a Stake Through It
As satisfying as your new project or initiative is, there is no rule that states it has to continue. In its current form at least.
View ArticleBrexit and the New Narrative
'We have very few better places to look for a new narrative than community'One has to wonder if the results of the Brexit referendum are an answer to a question other than the one on the ballot. Being...
View ArticleTransforming Capitalism versus Democratizing the Economy
There is a hardy breed of activists who have set themselves the rather lofty goal of civilizing capitalism. This renaissance of capitalism will be achieved by reinventing businesses and corporations,...
View ArticleA Basic Income Solution For Canada, For The World
How should our governments respond in a world of uncertain work and rising inequality? This is one of the most important social policy questions of our time — providing a Basic Income Guarantee could...
View ArticleCommunities, Not Countries, are Best Equipped to Fix the World’s Economic Woes
As anxieties about an economically unstable future grow globally, there is an alternative mindset much closer to home—literally just around the corner, in fact. Instead of relying on federal policy,...
View ArticleThe Welfare State is an Extension of Us, Not a Replacement for Us
The Welfare State is an important extension of our human community’s capacity to care; not a replacement for it. Communities produce care (full-stop) and the systems or service world should simply be...
View ArticleTransforming Capitalism: 7 Acupuncture Points
After a year of disheartening setbacks, many activists and change-makers may feel that the critical goal of transforming capitalism is slipping out of reach. Yet, having just returned from a four-week...
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