“The world has only one border. It is called humanity. The differences between us are small compared to our shared humanity.” – Nadia Murad, Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist and Nobel Prize winner You would be forgiven for thinking that in 2021, the...
Today’s health crisis is a tragedy that forced us all to quickly adapt, but it has given us a chance to change course towards a more just and sustainable economic and societal model. I work with top entrepreneurs and small-medium enterprises (SMEs) across the globe...
Images are powerful things; they shape the way we see the world. My favorite photograph captures a private moment between Martin Luther King Jr and Harry Belafonte: two giants in the civil rights movement with all the gravitas that implies. But this image tells a...
In Canada today, 1 in 5 Canadians over 15 years old (or 22 per cent) report having a disability, and approximately 47 per cent of Canadians say they spend time with or help someone who is dealing with these difficulties. By 2036, nearly 9 million Canadians are...
As a bright-eyed college volunteer for AmeriCorps, I spent time in some of the poorest neighborhoods in Puerto Rico. It was probably the hardest year of my life and the most eye-opening. In the aftermath of Hurricane Georges, I traveled around the island with FEMA...
Remember the 80s and 90s? Shoulder pads, briefcases—and the movie Wall St., which captured the spirit of the age. At the time, a couple of beliefs carried a lot of cultural currency: that maximizing shareholder value was the only thing that mattered, and that doing...
