Conférence du Halifax de 2014: Guimauve-chrono
Vingt morceaux de spaghetti cru, un morceau de ruban et un bout de corde nous attendent. Ainsi qu’une guimauve. Nous sommes trois équipes, le chronomètre est lancé. Le défi? Tirer du tout, en 20...
View ArticleHalifax 2014 Conference: Onboard HMCS MONTREAL
On a recent working conference in Halifax our crew of Action Canada Fellows had the pleasure of visiting the HMCS MONTREAL. Our guides from the Royal Canadian Navy gave us a fascinating inside look at...
View ArticleYukon 2014 Conference: Taking a Step Back in Time
Our chartered flight landed on an isolated strip in Minto, Yukon where we had a Turbo Beaver waiting to whisk us to Fort Selkirk. We had left our hotel in Dawson City at 10:15 am and our first group...
View ArticleYukon 2014 Conference: Leadership Lessons
For 24 hours we were a group of six Action Canada Fellows criss-crossing the city of Whitehorse searching for information and perspective regarding Aboriginal law and the goal of reconciliation in the...
View ArticleYukon 2014 Conference: Fresh Perspective on City Life
In early June, I read Charles Montgomery’s ‘Happy City’ as an introduction to the 2014-2015 Action Canada theme of the growing importance of municipal policy. The book vibrantly describes development...
View ArticleVancouver : une ville de contraste
Vancouver s’est présentée à moi comme une ville de contraste. C’est aussi la ville d’une question : comment peuvent se côtoyer les richesses d’un port dynamique et la pauvreté des résidents du Downtown...
View ArticleVancouver 2014 Conference: A Journey Home
“What do Salmon always do? They come back home.” Veronique Herry-St.Onge reflected to the crowd of Action Canada Fellows, representatives of the City of North Vancouver, and the Squamish First Nation...
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Diverse Engagement, Common Purpose
Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. ~ John F Kennedy Just hours after our final task force presentations on three important and...
View ArticleFaire une différence ou l’héritage de Champlain
Le classique de David Hackett Fisher « Le rêve de Champlain »était arrivé comme par enchantement, par la poste, à mon domicile de la rue de Lorimier, à Montréal. Au mois de juin 2014, ce qui m’avait...
View ArticleQuebec 2015: Visiting the Longhouse
“I repeatedly rub bear-fat in your hair”, said Dominic in the Wendat language, as he welcomed us to the longhouse exhibit of the Huron-Wendat museum in Wendake. Thus began a captivating hour with our...
View ArticleQuebec 2015: Leadership Up Close
I always imagined our great Canadian leaders as almost super-human. People who filled a room with their presence, who spoke in commanding voices, sharing their inspiring thoughts and perceptive...
View ArticleQuebec 2015: Fostering Innovation
The first Action Canada conference was an intensive, exciting and thought-provoking five days spent in Quebec. On my way back to Toronto, I found myself reflecting on a talk given by Dr. Gilles Patry,...
View ArticleWinnipeg 2015: What’s That Overhead?
I knew we were in for a good evening when two polar bears swam over my head. Seventeen Action Canada Fellows and our honoured guests looked on like kids in a candy store, safely huddled in our...
View ArticleWinnipeg 2015: Skirt Mafia
So, what is the Skirt Mafia? Action Canada recently had the privilege of spending the day with Diane Roussin, Project Director of the Winnipeg Boldness Project. While hosting us at the Project’s site,...
View ArticleWinnipeg 2015: À force de conviction
Comment peut-on réconcilier l’ouverture du Musée canadien pour les droits de la personne (MCDP) et l’affirmation dans l’hebdomadaire Maclean’s que sa ville d’origine, Winnipeg, serait supposément la...
View ArticleLabrador 2015: Lessons Learned from the Inuit of Nunatsiavut
Resilience, warmth, leadership. These words come to mind when I recall the Labrador Inuit we met during our latest Action Canada working conference. Like the rugged, beautiful landscape we trekked,...
View ArticleLabraodor 2015: The Language of Our Ancestors
Nakuumik, the Innuktitut word for thank you. This is the first of many Innuktitut words I learned during our time in the North. While in Labrador, Fellows learned about Inuit culture, identity and...
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Labrador 2015: The Fog Lifts
It is 5:00 a.m. and I’m wide awake. No matter how hard I try, I keep tossing in my bunk, my thoughts racing. Here I am at the foot of the Torngat mountain range, in one of Canada’s most pristine and...
View ArticleVancouver 2015: Same City, Different Angle
Despite everything I was told in advance, I wasn’t expecting to be surprised in Vancouver. The fourth of our five fellowship conferences was held in Vancouver, the city where I’ve lived and worked for...
View ArticleVancouver 2015 : Une approche gagnante pour l’innovation
Lors de notre passage à Vancouver, nous nous sommes retrouvés dans les bureaux branchés et hipster d’une compagnie Internet. À première vue, tout était normal: des employés relativement jeunes, une...
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