Reading Time: 3 minutes Trust requires consistency and transparency. It must be understandable. And we need regulations that protect the public
Author: Milton Friesen
Milton Friesen’s work includes serving on the executive team of Cardus, a public policy think tank, in addition to pursuing a PhD at the University of Waterloo, School of Planning. He has had diverse leadership and research experience that includes local and national non-profit contexts, elected municipal service, corporate communications work, undergraduate teaching as well as research and policy development.
His current research interests involve networks, cities, imaging, and planning policy.
Temper your confidence in the science that runs your life
Reading Time: 3 minutes Trust requires consistency and transparency. It must be understandable. And we need regulations that protect the public
Shop local: the value of an enriched human nudge
Reading Time: 3 minutes To make shopping local the norm, we need to think less about transaction efficiency and more about enjoyment
The ministry of loneliness wants to be your friend
Reading Time: 3 minutes But it’s far more likely that the institutions at neighbourhood levels are better positioned to address key aspects of loneliness
Religious communities remain an integral part of a healthy society
Reading Time: 3 minutes If we’re not careful, we may recognize too late how critical they are in dealing with the ever-shifting social stresses of modern life
We can’t afford to take charities for granted
Reading Time: 3 minutes Many forms of caring and cultural enrichment need lots of dedicated people to be fully realized and charities multiply the common good
How do we grow the social fabric of communities?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Human connections play a profound role in solving our most pressing problems
Charitable giving is a group project
Reading Time: 3 minutes Religious settings are very important for charitable giving and generate a huge amount of significant community outreach
Decaying social infrastructure leading to social isolation
Reading Time: 3 minutes The complex networks of relationships that make up the deep operating system of our common lives is being taken for granted