- Aug 20, 2018
- 10 min
BORDERLESSNESS
The Atlantic magazine carried an article called "The Case For Getting Rid of Borders – Completely." I really wanted to hear something...
- May 1, 2017
- 2 min
"I'M ON A DIET"
I wish you could see what I'm seeing. I've now had three friends, in three very different situations, living in three different...
- Apr 17, 2017
- 4 min
WHO'S AT FAULT?
The Globe and Mail recently published an article entitled "Why female cooks stay out of the kitchen", authored by a Toronto restaurant...
- Mar 14, 2017
- 6 min
HOW TO FUND A WORKER CO-OP
We’ve spent two years getting a worker-owned co-op from conception to construction. The business is a for-profit bakery in the heart of...
- Aug 31, 2016
- 2 min
MY CO-OP STORY
(First published by the Canadian Worker Co-op Federation) Like most thirty-somethings I've worked in many different fields: from...
- May 6, 2015
- 15 min
MIND THE GAP
In the last few weeks the media has been full of reports about the gender pay gap. Now, this issue has always bothered me, for its...
- Apr 14, 2015
- 3 min
ENTITLED MUCH?
An amazing new report was published by researchers out at UBC. Some of it you already know, but together and in detail I think it packs a...
- Mar 26, 2015
- 3 min
IDEAL CANDIDATE
I just saw this fun job ad for an outdoor school near Vancouver. The job required a minimum of two years experience working in...
- Oct 24, 2014
- 6 min
GETTING IN THE WAY
VPI inc. is a Canadian-owned “workforce management services company devoted to helping individuals and organizations better define and...
- Oct 12, 2014
- 5 min
THEY DON’T CALL IT CLASS WAR
Our elected and unelected leaders, from government and business, lie to our faces. And these storytellers never fabricate more...