Reading Time: 4 minutes The province needs to begin ensuring students are graduating ready for citizenship and the workforce
Tag: Civil society
Civility is the essential glue that holds society together
Reading Time: 3 minutes So why are we so rude to each other?
Profanity can make product reviews more persuasive
Reading Time: 3 minutes Product website gatekeepers might be better off allowing some profanity on their platforms
The trouble with lusting after status
Reading Time: 4 minutes If the price requires sacrificing civility and honour, we’ve lost ourselves
Violence in the name of social good carries risks
Reading Time: 3 minutes Use of force outside the law, even in defence of constitutionally guaranteed rights and freedom, carries with it the risk of destabilizing society
Covid-19 and our forgotten freedoms of assembly and association
Reading Time: 4 minutes It is in emergencies that we see whether our deepest societal values mean anything
How to tone down the rhetoric and improve understanding
Reading Time: 4 minutes Better communication and negotiation create harmony and more desirable outcomes in politics, and in the workplace and the home
The problem with kindness – and its vast potential
Reading Time: 4 minutes Once we decide to be kind, we find ourselves experiencing belonging. This is what caregivers, paid or unpaid, can teach the rest of society
Combatting the rising tide of hostility
Reading Time: 3 minutes Simple courtesy has taken a giant nosedive
Freedom and responsibility two sides of same coin
Reading Time: 3 minutes Freedom and responsibility may mean different things to different people but each of the choices we make come with consequences