Budgeting in Japan takes ingenuity

Budgeting in Japan takes ingenuity

“Exchange rate” does not mean much in our workaday lives.  But we develop a functional understanding in short order when traveling abroad.  There it hits home that “exchange rate” is “money,” a term so meaningful that it runs a close second to whatever is in first...
Setting the stage for social catharsis

Setting the stage for social catharsis

Canadian and American audiences are ready for some dramatic transcendence. That was the hopeful theme that emerged from a debate at the Ottawa International Writers Festival last weekend where I was moderating a conversation about whether theatre matters between two...

CHANGE FROM BELOW: FORMING A WOMEN’S CAUCUS

by Carla Lofberg Valenta If the executive offices of the company where you work have the aspect of a “men’s club,” then it is not very likely that any “affirmative action” will originate from within the “club.” For it is the...