What do you do when you have an abundance of topics, profiles, initiatives to highlight the extraordinary contributions of individuals with disabilities? Link them to the most irreverent group of people with disabilities you know – Ouch – it's a … Read More
Blog posts by Al
The Spaces In Between – The Back Story of the Task Force on Social Finance – an illustration of Solution Based Advocacy (46)
It took a million steps and thousands of relationships to launch the Canadian Task Force on Social Finance. Here are a few of those stories. I welcome your contributions, additions, amplifications. Let's record our history. Eight years ago Tim Brodhead … Read More
Shooting the Rapids – Ballast from the Social Finance Task Force
The community sector in Canada has hit white water and the sound of the waterfalls is echoing louder. Non profits, charities, co-ops, and citizen groups are contending with government funding reductions, more competition for the donor and foundation dollar and … Read More
Cairine MacDonald – One of Canada’s Most Powerful (and Loving) Women
..one of the secrets of Cairine's success is her intellectual curiosity. She is driven to discover creative solutions to tough, often unyielding social problems. She is not content to rest on, 'the way it has always been done.' With … Read More
The Inner Activist – A Site for Sore Eyes – Tips for Solution Based Advocacy (45)
And for flagging spirits, tired bodies, troubled minds and suffering souls. Social change can be harsh, hard, unyielding work. It can take a toll on you, your families, your friends, your acquaintances, your adversaries… It has on occasion turned me … Read More
Flaherty Makes Disability Savings Plan More Accessible
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty continues to be a champion for people with disabilities and their families. He intends to correct a procedural barrier to eligibility for the Disability Tax Credit (DTC). Eligibility for the Disability Tax Credit is the only … Read More
Caroline MacGillivray’s Redemption of Beauty
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. -RUMI There is a young Vancouver woman whose special touch with the invisible women of our society gets … Read More
Ask David Eaves: Is the Internet our new Parliament Buildings? (Part Three)
David Eaves is an app inventor, philosopher, negotiation specialist and one of the world’s leading proponent of Open Government. Open Government for David consists of making government more transparent, accountable and collaborative. To give birth to Open Government he, like … Read More
Ask Alexandra Samuel: Is the Internet our new Parliament Buildings? (Part Two)
People working in the field of social media bear a particular responsibility for imagining, interrogating and forming this new world that is just beginning, for what use is our insatiable appetite for connectivity, our constant embrace of new tools, our … Read More
Is the Internet our new Parliament Buildings? (Part One)
The future is going to happen no matter what we do, writes Douglas Copeland in his latest book Player One: What is to Become of Us, reminding us of the obvious. And that future, regardless of what we think will … Read More