I was fortunate to have participated in an industry tour recently attended by local Indigenous leaders and representatives from some of the region’s largest employers where the goal was to get to know each other and begin to work together to identify and solve our respective employment challenges. On the Tour, and in many other…

Mark Twain wrote: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” Many of us have taken this to heart. International tourist…

  Finalists (in alphabetical order) Business of the Year (1-15 employees) – sponsored by TELUS PureFibre McTavish Academy of Art Storyoga Business of the Year (16+ employees) – sponsored by Island Savings All Care Canada Sidney Casman Group Not-For-Profit Organization –sponsored by Casman Properties Mount Newton Centre Sidney Museum Contribution to the Community -sponsored by…

The cult of celebrity has been responsible for the rise in power of many people who were unsuited to, or abused, their leadership roles. Often the word used to describe these leaders is “charismatic”, as if that one trait alone were enough to qualify the candidate for the position. Sociologist Max Weber pointed out that…