
White Male Police Unions
The Globe and MailDebate over police powers missing key voices: women and minorities.
The biggest story in America this year is that racism isn’t dead. Just ask any young black man who’s been ‘carded’ by the police. Or the families of those who were…

Fight back against politicians’ boring speeches
Huffington PostAudiences Shouldn't Have to Put Up With Politicians 'Bringing Greetings'
I recently paid $50 to attend a preview screening of the movie, Still Alice, about the decline and fall of a woman struck with Alzheimer's at age 50. Most of my money…

Non-White women missing from Toronto’s power corridors
The Toronto StarThe group with the largest numbers in Toronto still has the least power.
God is not on the side of the big battalions — at least in Toronto.
In fact, here in the world’s most diverse city, the group with the biggest numbers has the…

In Toronto, walking is the new driving
Huffington PostWalking never got any respect: it was slow, unsexy and boring. Only losers walked.
But today, walking is what the cool kids do, whether they're staving off Alzheimers and depression, losing weight or gaining creativity.
In fact, over 4.5 million…

The misplaced optimism of gender diversity targets
The Globe and MailSo how’s the Ontario Security Commission’s new “comply or explain” policy doing in nudging our public companies to put more women on their boards?
Well, if the first six months offer any clue, it will take 68 more years before boards…

Why do women still earn so much less than men?
The Toronto Star Not only is the gap between men's and women's pay in Canada not closing, it's actually widening.
Can you believe there are still some places in North America where women earn much less than men for the same kind of job?
Sadly, Toronto is…

"All People Want to be Happy. All Cities Should Want the Same."
The Toronto Community FoundationClick here to read the presentation.

Heart Surgery Can Increase Depression Risk
The Globe and MailNo one knows what led Robin Williams to kill himself. It wasn’t just one thing, but likely a fatal stew of lingering alcohol and drug addiction, depression, being middle-aged and male, and the prospect of facing Parkinson’s disease.
Rarely…

Mis-Stepping With the Samis of Arctic Sweden
Huffington PostEight of us from Toronto were huddled around a fire inside a Lavu, a giant teepee that served as our dinner tent. We were in Arctic Sweden "reindeer trekking" with a group of young Sami men.
The Sami are the indigenous people of the very north…

Women deserve better representation on Canada’s boards
The Toronto StarSince only 12 per cent of board members in Canada are women and most executives don't care, it's time to impose gender quotas.
The news that “most Canadian executives don’t care” that only 12 per cent of board members are women is all…

Fogo Futures
Canadian GeographicA room at the Fogo Island Inn will set you back $875 to $2,475 a night, which might seem like a lot for accommodation in Joe Batt’s Arm, a town on the northeast shore of Newfoundland. If you’re staying there, odds are you’re a high-performance…

Where multiculturalism fears to tread
The Toronto StarThe boards of Toronto’s biggest arts organizations are the last bastions of white maleness.
Very soon, Toronto will “tip” from being a city where the vast majority of its citizens are white (in 1957, 93 per cent of us were) to one where…

Measuring the time left in your life
The Toronto StarClick here to read the article.

A ticking time bomb
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Confession’s good for the corporate soul
The Globe and MailDisaster lurks everywhere. Buildings collapse. Helicopters crash. Mines explode. It’s only afterward that we realize the role organizational cultures can play in a disaster.
Central to many of these cultures is an inability to admit failure.…

Lingering prejudice amid the city’s Pride
The Toronto StarOn a hot Sunday morning five summers ago, my wife and I were bicycling through Riverdale on our way to church. Heading west along Simpson Avenue, we saw what looked like half a dozen horses with policemen astride.
Odd, I thought.
As we pedalled…