Becoming Visible 2011

Linda Couture is the Director of Living with Dignity  a Quebec based organization promoting palliative care, home care and a natural end to life as opposed to assisted suicide or euthanasia.  The Quebec government's Special Parliamentary Committee on Dying with … Read More

Allyson Hewitt is a force for change.  She has led impressive advocacy campaigns herself including the development of 211 – providing three-digit and online access to social service, community and government information.  Now she heads the Social Enterprise Unit at … Read More

Cheryl Rose is an accomplished educator, well loved by her students.  She pioneered the development of  Community Service Learning in universities throughout Canada.  Community Service Learning convenes students, educators and community in partnerships to learn from each other.   She … Read More

Cormac Russell is a colleague of mine at the Asset Based Community Development Institute.  He is Managing Director of Nurture Development, an Irish training and development agency.  He also works internationally advising governments, organizations and communities on how to re-negotiate … Read More

Gordon Hogg has been a Mayor and then member of the Legislative Assembly in British Columbia for more than three decades.  During that period he has held a number of Cabinet posts leading reforms in the area of disability and … Read More

Nancy Hall is a long time mental health advocate, scholar, strategist and public policy expert.  She specializes in individual and family focused solutions. Last fall she was awarded Canada's most celebrated Clarence Hincks mental health Award.  Here is her answer … Read More

Gregor Wolbring is a professor at the University of Calgary.  He pursues ethical questions that affect those of us who are or will become disabled, infirmed, reliant on medical technology or are concerned about the implications of nano – tehnology, … Read More

Paul Born is a man of many talents, all of which he puts at the service of strengthening the ties that bind us together in community.  He is a master convener using those skills to create and sustain Vibrant Communities … Read More

Don Cayo is a Vancouver Sun business columnist. His column and his blog tackles globalization,taxation, third world poverty and other issues that matter.   For years he has been mentoring young journalists, leading regular investigative study tours to developing countries.  Here … Read More

Donna Thomson is an advocate and international advisor to the PLAN Institute.  She is also the author of Four Walls of My Freedom which I reviewed in a previous post.  Here is Donna's response to: What would you like to … Read More