Month: June 2013

While The Northern Gateway Pipeline debate is loaded with emotion, objectivity and trust are in short supply.  Under these circumstances, can government and business acquire the social license to proceed or will they over-ride opposition and proceed without public support? The debate about social license can be distilled to a few pivotal questions:  Is the …

Read more “The Northern Gateway Pipeline: Why Social License Has Been Denied”

It’s early in the morning on April the 24th. Workers file in to start another day on the job. Sewing machines gear up and peck threads into garments like a community of woodpeckers searching for grubs. A mild tremor shakes the walls. Before anyone realizes what is happening, workers at the Bangladeshi Rana Plaza are …

Read more “Loblaw’s and Supply Chain Management: Uncovering the details of the Rana Plaza Collapse”