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Divided we stand on guard for whom?
If America is a sermon and Britain a seminar, Canada is a conversation — the various chambers of its vast, collective mind thrumming with tolerance. It’s not the brutal winters that lure humanity to the Great White North’s diverse rural and urban landscapes. It’s the absence of intellectual straight-jackets. We manifest the simple proposition that rational accommodation is the one …Continue Reading
Web Extra: Full transcript with Canada’s Irish Tiger, Loyola Hearn
Atlantic Business Magazine editor Dawn Chafe interviews Loyola Hearn, Canada’s ambassador to Ireland I’ve never been to Ireland. Can you give me some idea of what I make expect if I were to visit? You’ve never been to Ireland, eh? This past two weeks, we have at least five groups from Newfoundland. Most of them will drop by the embassy …Continue Reading
Canada’s Irish tiger
Loyola Hearn talks hockey, direct flights and his plans for dealing with seal hunt protestors — assuming they ever show up It was a mildly disappointing day for Canada’s 28th Ambassador to Ireland. March 15 is known as “seal hunt protest day” throughout the European Union and Loyola Hearn’s staff had advised him it might be a good day to …Continue Reading
The government sovereign dimwit crisis
If it was an avalanche of avarice that triggered the first great global recession since grampy was knee-high to a T-bill, it will be a surfeit of stupidity that sparks the second. For the former, we can properly blame the largely self-regulated, international financial system and its slathering pursuit of short-term gain. Kiting the prices of essentially worthless mortgage-backed securities …Continue Reading
NL Special Report: Hot commodities
Natural resources are driving the Newfoundland and Labrador economy, with energy projects pushing the province to more than 60 per cent of planned major project spending in the entire Atlantic region. What does that wealth of work mean for the labour market, economy and public policy in Canada’s youngest province? In 1883, the Sisters of Mercy purchased the Littledale site …Continue Reading
It’s time to educate, not incarcerate
Something wicked stirs beneath the shrubbery of this warm and watered land, a creeping fungus that saps our virtue, strangles our hope and chokes the promise of Canadian progress. Only the fearless and morally superior among us can halt its pitiless march across the landscape; only federal cabinet ministers, blessed by uncommon foresight and fortitude, can rescue us from the …Continue Reading
Get understanding
Once again, I am lucky enough to be exercising my writing responsibilities from my camp in Labrador. Lucky is the operative word because Labrador is so amazing. For the uninitiated, it’s… well… grand, magnificent, awe-inspiring. Most come here for the fishing but come back because it is just such a special place, and being able to experience it repeatedly makes …Continue Reading
Stage fright
Recent government investments in the big business of big concerts have had mixed results in Atlantic Canada, ranging from scandal to success. What works, and what doesn’t? And should taxpayers be afraid when politicians get stars in their eyes? This month, tens of thousands of screaming fans will descend on Moncton’s Magnetic Hill concert site, where iconic Irish rockers U2 …Continue Reading
S’mores the pity
Great news for Canadian multiculturalism! At long last, we have identified (and more importantly, elected to share) the secret formula to welcoming new immigrants in a way that instantly, retroactively, integrates them as privileged members of the sacred Canadian fold. And we have none other than Parks Canada to thank. The inscrutable mysticism that has become the trademark of the …Continue Reading
Hothouses and Pipelines: Insights from Made in Canada Leadership co-author Francoise Morissette
B.M. In your book Made in Canada Leadership, you said, we require a national leadership strategy to make leadership a priority. The strategy should include leadership education for all ages, coaching, mentoring, stretch assignments and the creation of a National Leadership Institute to oversee the implementation of a national leadership strategy. Can you give me some more detail behind your …Continue Reading
