The Challenge of Change – dependency and its origins

This was a presentation to a fisheries based conference in Aberdeen First of all I am delighted to be able to participate in this forum dealing with the opportunities and future for fishing communities. In particular, it is encouraging to discuss these issues with the knowledge that a human tragedy hasn’t happened or is in […]

Rural Communities – creating a stable environment

  We happen to be living in one of the most interesting periods in human history.  Societal shifts unlike any we have witnessed before are testing and stretching our ability to comprehend either the problems or their solutions.  The resulting quagmire is generating negative forces, some being unleashed in Canada as a mechanism of constraint […]