Occupation: Poet Birth: March 23, 1955
We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered….
The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what demo….
Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it..
We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory….
Canada may be fast-forwarding, jump starting, into a new pattern, a model of communication linkages, a civilization that is more than a grab for powe….
Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer..
Threaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the h….
Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture ….
If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen..
A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals..
Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory..
We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily for….
Enlightenment should be a human right..
The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue..
If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold..
Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness..
Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors'….
Canada is like several puzzles that we are all working on at the same time. Everyone has a part to add, but no one has seen the whole picture yet..
Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational….
Certainty is usually a sign of pathology..
May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle..