As usual, there is a radio playing loudly in the background as I type away at my computer. The station plays whatever sounds good, including Botswana house music. I’m not a house fan but when you go…

So having moved past the model of scarcity, let’s take a look another piece of information that’s been nudging me to write about. How we evaluate social services, namely, outcomes based evaluation. The basic notion of outcomes based evaluation is: let’s measure things like, how many youth found jobs because of the project, how many [...]

If my high school, Victoria Park CI, was a country in its own right – Victoria Parktopia let’s say – then I think we’d be doing pretty well compared to other entities in the United Nations (the Toronto District School…

One of the commonplace arguments against democracy has always been that the masses, as ignorant and uncaring as they are, could not be bothered to pick a decent leader for themselves if their lives…

In 1964, Bob Dylan intoned “Don’t criticize/What you can’t understand/Your sons and your daughters/Are beyond your command”. His words marked the tension between communities of different ages…

A look at Five Important Issues concerning Youth this election

From June 25th to 27th 2010, Toronto and Huntsville were hosts to the G20 and G8 conferences. In Toronto, the events pertaining to the G20 conference received far more attention than the G20 itself, particularly with questions of spending, small business closures, security, and especially civil liberties. On the days surrounding the G20, it was [...]

The irritating hum of gasoline engines. The continual sway of energy prices abroad and at the pump. The choking gas released from exhaust pipes, and the non-stop build-up of nauseating traffic smog. These…

The title ‘skeptic’ is one that many people enjoy claiming; there is something cool, something aggressive and free-flying about it. Being a critic of the majority opinion (or at least saying that you are one) seems…

A murmur of applause greeted my friend and me as we stepped away from the little microphone, shaken, relieved, and proud. The next speaker was called up after we had settled back in our seats and were…