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Category Archives: Leadership
Social Justice Saturday: introducing a new Robby Robin series
As has been analyzed in blog after blog and media opinion piece after media opinion piece, the global pandemic in which we find ourselves has, along with many hardships and horrifying numbers of deaths, shone a badly needed light on … Continue reading
Posted in History and Politics, Leadership, Social justice Saturday
Tagged a better society, COVID-19, environmental destruction, essential service workers, essential services, global pandemic, income inequality, inequality, leadership, long term care homes, pandemic, politicians, politics, racism, saving the planet, schools in society, social justice
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Towards a fair and just society: what can an old lady do?
I am white. I am a well-educated white. I am the product of a stable, loving, supportive family, from a safe, stable neighbourhood. I don’t have a name that might have labeled me as a suspicious “other” of some ethnic … Continue reading
Posted in History and Politics, Leadership
Tagged anti-racism, Canada, fair and just society, indigenous racism, peaceful, protest marches, racism, social justice, support, U.S., vote, voting
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The big blogging question of the day: What lessons have you learned during the pandemic?
Boy, people seem to be learning lots and lots of lessons during these troubling times of pandemic lockdown, if the number of blog posts on this topic are anything to go by. It’s also a question that’s starting to annoy … Continue reading
Posted in History and Politics, Leadership, Odds and Ends
Tagged compassion, COVID-19, inequality, leadership, lessons learned, long term care homes, pandemic, racism
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Contemplating how great civilizations rise and fall through maps
It’s Map Monday. For a change of pace, let’s take a look at empires throughout history. There have been many empires, or civilizations, that have risen and fallen since humans – and so far that’s been men – first started … Continue reading
COVID-19 has brought us a day of reckoning; how will we respond?
As we think about what our world – our individual countries and communities – might look like when this pandemic is finally fully in check, we find ourselves with options. We can work hard to get things back to being … Continue reading
A message of hope for a world in need
This weekend brings messages of hope in several significant ways, including the messages of hope offered by Easter and Passover for hundreds of millions of people around the world. Even though self-isolation means no gathering in churches and synagogues and … Continue reading
Posted in History and Politics, Just wondering, Leadership
Tagged Canada, coronavirus, COVID-19, David Suzuki, Easter, environmentalism, Frederick Banting, hope, insulin, Marathon of Hope, medicare, multiculturalism, Passover, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, positivity, spring, Terry Fox, Tommy Douglas
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Celebrating World Happiness Day in the time of COVID-19
Today, March 20, is World Happiness Day. March 20 has been recognized as International Day of Happiness since first being introduced in 2006, and was endorsed by the United Nations in 2012 when they adopted Bhutan’s concept of Gross National … Continue reading
