Working with leaders in HIV/AIDS, youth and homelessness, community economic development, culture, international development, environmental and education sectors it is clear to me that cross-sectoral conversations need to take place on a more strategic level.
 We don’t live in silos.  So much of our work towards progressive social change however still is so isolated on a [...]

Climate change, human rights, fair trade, good governance, peace, food security and access to health care and education are all part of a complex progressive global agenda. This agenda is lead by civil society organizations. Communicating the complexity of this agenda into digestible bits in the "era of the snack culture" is an enormous [...]

In a recent interview in the New York Times Magazine Al Gore says, “The monolith of apathy and opposition has begun to break up; and because social change, like climate change is nonlinear, the shift in public opinion may come about very suddenly.”
The tipping point may in fact already be at hand even in [...]

In a CBC interview aired May 17th, world-renowned author, philosopher and recent winner of the prestigious Templeton Prize, Charles Taylor says that in our post-911 adversarial world the absence of meaning in the lives of young men is fertile ground for suicide bombers. “We need to look into what makes this kind of meaning vacuum,” [...]

Today in Berlin Bono and Bob Geldof held a press conference to call upon G8 nations to meet their commitments to double aid to Africa by 2010. So far the G8 countries, including Canada are falling far short. Today, 41% of Africans are living on less than one dollar a day.
A report released [...]

One of the many results of globalization has been the emergence of global social movements to well … address the other results of globalization … such as unfair trade practices, increase militarization and massive human displacement, loss of food sovereignty and the lack of local accountability with decision-making powers shifting upward and in many cases [...]