Reading Time: 4 minutes Reflecting on Canadian culture at the Dog House Restaurant and small businesses dedicated to local artisans
Author: Mike Robinson
Mike Robinson’s career combined his academic training in Law and Anthropology at UBC and Oxford University, in frontier regulatory compliance work at Petro-Canada and PolarGas, and the leadership of three national NGOs: The Arctic Institute of North America, The Glenbow Alberta Institute, and The Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art. In addition, he has chaired the national boards of Friends of the Earth, The David Suzuki Foundation, and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. In 2004 he became a Member of the Order of Canada.
Confronting retirement with thought and planning
Reading Time: 3 minutes Give yourself some time to evaluate options. Be honest with your ego and let your imagination troll through deep waters
Applying the stages-of-dying model to climate change
Reading Time: 3 minutes The change we need in half a generation is before us. Each of us can play our small part to end the cycle
A magnificent Cornish pub dinner to top off a day of discovery
Reading Time: 3 minutes We walked back to our lodgings simply wondering if a better day could be had – anywhere. And already tomorrow was beckoning
Onwards to St. Michael’s Mount, across fields and marsh
Reading Time: 4 minutes We had a destination draped in history and instructions on how to get there offered with a smile and pride of place
Looking for the Pirates of Penzance in Cornwall
Reading Time: 3 minutes With St. Michael’s Mount on the horizon, a grand walking tour awaits
What does the future hold for Calgary’s Glenbow?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Should it become ‘a world-class public art museum’ or adhere to founder Eric Harvie’s Scottish interdisciplinary roots?
Never shirk responsibility for honest, forthright observation
Reading Time: 4 minutes The rules of writing opinion pieces haven’t changed through the generations in the Robinson family
Localized and personalized: how to keep culture relevant
Reading Time: 4 minutes The world of arts and culture offers lots of examples of gross expense and imported notions of what’s important. But there are alternatives
Albertans can’t hide from climate change as election debate rages
Reading Time: 3 minutes Many politicians would rather look to the past than mobilize to fight our greatest challenge