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Community Engagement Podcast (8) – The Perils of Political Distance
The longer someone stays in politics, the more remote they become from their home constituencies. The throb of political life these days occurs at the centres of power, not in our scattered communities. The farther away power gets from those places where we live, the more irrelevant it becomes –…
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Community Engagement Podcast (7) – Against Our Wishes
We might very well be walking the road to greater independence of our respective communities if the more senior levels of government don’t stop treating them like distant cousins. None of us wants this. We would prefer a place at the table, maybe even some constitutional reform that would…
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Community Engagement Podcast (6) – Our Turn
A surprising call from a Conservative MP out West. Political theatre that is becoming increasingly remote. A partisanship that cripples our democratic estate. Yet despite such realities, Canadian communities, like those American ones just prior to the American Revolution, are teeming with new…
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Community Engagement Podcast (5) – The Meddling Factor
it becomes an increasing difficult reality when more senior levels of government swoop into our communities during campaign seasons in hopes of securing our votes, then disappearing back to their capitals as though we didn’t factor into their policies. Prior to America’s early Revolution, the…
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Community Engagement Podcast (4) – The Humiliation Factor
Desperate times cause politicians to do desperate things. It’s tough enough for our communities to face difficult times, but when we take on the process of undermining our efforts at building for the future by attacking one another, then there is no hope for rebuilding. Being at the receiving end...
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Community Engagement Podcast (2) – Something We Can’t Do Alone
Emerging entities – globalization, mass culture, the transcendence of money over meaning – have arisen in recent years to lay something of a choke hold on citizens and their ability to come together for greater purposes. Despite impressive efforts by communities and citizen groups, more of a...
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Community Engagement Podcast (3) – Increasingly Alone
Communities are feeling increasingly abandoned. Funding formulas among senior levels of governments have left our cities and regions on the outside looking in. But the effects of poor policy and an under-performing economy have left communities themselves bearing the overall brunt of such...
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