Community Engagement Podcast
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Community Engagement Podcast
By Glen Pearson
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“New Cards” – Community Engagement Podcast (36)
It is highly possible for citizens to discuss their way into solutions. But that’s not how the political process works. There you have an agenda and p...
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“From Interests to Interest” – Community Engagement Podcast (35)
To create meaningful dialogue, good citizens display empathy more than emphasis. To understand and respect where the other person is coming from is on...
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Expressions of Interest – Citizen Engagement Podcast (34)
True dialogue can begin with positions, but it should end in understanding. “Before the tongue can speak, it must lose the power to wound,” said an ol...
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A Life More Important Than Words – Citizen Engagement Podcast (33)
The genius of democracy is not how right, or even how smart we are. It is how open we are to find compromise that will permit us to move ahead as a ci...
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“Public Dialogue: Not” – Community Engagement Podcast (32)
Just two weeks left in these podcasts, but this is an important one. What happens if we get a chance to build an effective democracy as citizens and n...
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Thoughts on Citizen Engagement (31)
Political dysfunction has resulted in numerous efforts at citizen engagement across the board. Yet a sincere questions remains: are citizens mature en...
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The Call is Ours – Citizen Engagement Podcast (30)
It’s amazing that politics has so few referees. In times past it worked because there was a certain sense of nobility, respect, and cooperation among...
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We Are What We Affect – Community Engagement Podcast (29)
How we respond to developments is often predicated by how we were heard. Children learn early and instinctively that if they express an emotion that g...
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The Language of Movement – Community Engagement Podcast (28)
A collective purpose or elite agendas. London, Ontario’s large citizen engagement initiative, ReThink London, will end up with one or the other of the...
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Democracy in Reverse – Community Engagement Podcast (27)
How is it that Canada – so well-respected for its peaceable efforts around the world – is now failing to bring peace to its own political order? And w...
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“False Options” – Community Engagement Podcast (26)
Great citizens don’t latch out and grab onto rigid ideologies that bring on political warfare. Great politicians don’t either. No one party has all th...
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“Idiots” – Community Engagement Podcast (25)
If citizens check out of the political process, then it becomes increasingly easy for governments to do as they wish. We all know that. And yet, with...
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“Catching Up To History” – Community Engagement Podcast (24)
For millennia people have regarded history as a linear event – moving forward at a steady pace over the years. But our present generation is experienc...
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“Smashing Time” – Community Engagement Podcast (23)
Political policies in the modern era have turned pitting the different generations – Baby Boomers, Generation X, Generation Y – against one another. A...
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Bar Code Generation (22)
We are living in age where we neglect public duties in favour of private delights. It comes commensurate with the great shift of our generation from c...
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“Old Before Their Time” – Community Engagement Podcast (21)
About 85% of the world’s youth live in developing nations – and they are growing restless, frustrated at the lack of opportunity afforded them. In Can...
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“Young At Heart Again” – Community Engagement Podcast (20)
1967 was not just our 100th birthday as a nation; it was the year Canada came out on the world stage looking young and vibrant. The government of the...
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“Boomer Redux” – Community Engagement Podcast (19)
Call it the “grey tsunami”. It’s about ready to wash over our communities, as within the next decade a quarter of our population will have reached ret...
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“The Unlit Torch” – Community Engagement Podcast (18)
In a time of diminishing returns, nothing seems sure anymore. Where older generations took less for themselves in order to pass on more opportunities...
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“We Ruined It” – Community Engagement Podcast (17)
Our communities will be as successful as they will be at transferring responsibilities and opportunities to the next generation of citizens. Sadly, Ba...
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“Generations” – Community Engagement Podcast (16)
If the future of our cities is in our youth, then what is the future of youth? It’s a simple question that carries profound implications for our commu...
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“Mistaking Truth for Disenchantment”- Community Engagement Podcast (15)
Our civic duty is to invest and prepare for the next generation. Yet our present Baby Boom generation has actually taken away opportunities from the f...
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“Long in the Tooth” – Community Engagement Podcast (14)
It sounds counterintuitive, but our governments are banking on decline. Running low on resources, they inwardly know the future will be something less...
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“Breaking Out” – Community Engagement Podcast (13)
For almost the entirety of human history communities moved in cyclical fashion – following the sun, moon and the seasons. Yet not all that long ago th...
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Community Engagement Podcast (12) – “From Manipulation to Meaning”
It’s time to start building a local language of meaning. Our political vernacular is not longer the language of community but of the partisan professi...
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Community Engagement Podcast (11) – “It’s Time”
By 2030, 60% of the world’s population will be living in cities. In a nation with one of the most urbanized populations on the planet per capita, we a...
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Community Engagement Podcast (10) – At the Table
While various forms of community renaissance are going on around the world, Canadian cities remain stuck in neutral, in part because of their lowly pl...
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Community Engagement Podcast (9) – Not As We Had Hoped
Say what you like about globalization and free trade, for our communities such supposed advantages left them with fewer options. When prospects like t...
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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...
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 treati...
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...
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 securi...
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 proce...
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 hol...
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 lo...
Glen Pearson Community Engagement Podcast – Ep.1
London, Ontario is going through a significant city engagement process titled ReThink London and so far some 10,000 citizens have taken part – pretty...
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