Societies have conversations with themselves. Sometimes these conversations are so noisy that everyone is forced to pay attention. In Canada, our noisiest conversations since World War Two have been Quebec sovereignty and the War Measures Act. Those two would have been hard to miss.
Sometimes, however, a conversation begins in one part of society without others…
Michael Adams
Michael Adams is the president of the Environics group of companies, which he co-founded in 1970. He is the author of six books, most recently Unlikely Utopia: The Surprising Triumph of Canadian Pluralism (Penguin Canada (2008).
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Anyone interested in Canada and the United States should buy and read American Myths: What Canadians Think They Know about the United States. Editor Rudyard Griffiths, the co-founder and outgoing executive director of the Dominion Institute, has assembled a volume that is both meaty and readable, containing a number of strong essays by important…
When Is Equality Not Equality?
Canadian and American women diverge on work and motherhood January–February 2006
At a recent appearance in Toronto, famed British adman Neil French made waves a mari usque ad mare when he let the women in his industry know what he really thought: “You can’t be a great creative director and have a baby and keep spending time off every time your kids are ill. You can’t do the job.”…