How to make social cohesion work. Bertelsmann Stiftung Speech 2019

The megatrends of globalization and digitalization pose challenges for social cohesion. Many people are concerned about their economic future, and right-wing populists are leveraging the internet to spread oversimplified messages and fuel fears. Thought leaders from around the world convened to discuss the future of social cohesion at the Bertelsmann Stiftung‘s international “Trying Times” conference addressing the issue “Rethinking Social Cohesion” that was held in Berlin from September 4–6, 2019. In his closing speech titled “How to make social cohesion work,” Canadian author and President Emeritus of PEN International John Ralston Saul demonstrated that empathy, respect for difference and the willingness to accept the complexity of society rather than exclusion and fear are the factors that pave the way toward a successful future. The social cohesion of the future needs both diversity and community. Read his speech in full here

The Roots of Canadian Law in Canada

This article asks the Canadian legal community to look beyond the standard historical viewpoint that roots Canadian law in the British common law and French civil law traditions. The author discusses the historical foundations of Canadian law in a uniquely Canadian context, beginning with the earliest interactions between the First Nations and the Europeans. Drawing on the research outlined in his recent book, A Fair Country, the author challenges his audience to think of Canadian law as far more than the local implementation of foreign legal traditions. While Canada has freely borrowed from various legal traditions, the application of law in Canada has been a unique process intimately tied to Canadian history. The author calls on us to recognize a distinctly Canadian legal tradition which has grown out of Aboriginal law and subsequent local experience while being influenced by, but by no means limited to, common law and civil law traditions.Cet article demande à la communauté juridique canadienne d’aller au-delà du point de vue historique standard selon lequel les racines du droit canadien se trouvent dans les traditions de common law britannique et de droit civil français. L’auteur retrace les fondements historiques du droit canadien dans le contexte unique du pays, en commençant par les premières interactions entre les Premières Nations et les Européens. En s’appuyant sur les recherches étayées dans son récent livre Mon pays métis, l’auteur enjoint le public à envisager le droit canadien comme beaucoup plus que la simple implantation locale de traditions juridiques étrangères. Bien que le Canada ait emprunté librement à diverses traditions juridiques, l’application du droit au Canada a toujours été un processus unique intimement lié à l’histoire canadienne. L’auteur nous interpelle pour que nous reconnaissions une tradition juridique canadienne distincte, issue du droit autochtone et de l’expérience locale subséquente, tout en étant influencée par les traditions de common law et de droit civil sans y être limitée

El fin del globalismo

El artículo trata de la vigencia de los Estados-nación modernos y la emergencia de los nacionalismos en la Era de la denominada globalización, sosteniendo que aquellos Estados-nación y los nacionalismos, han superado la ya finalizada globalización y recuperan su papel activo, económico y político, en las condicionesprevalecientes de un renovado poder nacional

El fin del globalismo

El artículo trata de la vigencia de los Estados-nación modernos y la emergencia de los nacionalismos en la Era de la denominada globalización, sosteniendo que aquellos Estados-nación y los nacionalismos, han superado la ya finalizada globalización y recuperan su papel activo, económico y político, en las condicionesprevalecientes de un renovado poder nacional

Democracy and the implications of global economics

Item consists of a digitized copy of a video recording of a Dal Grauer Memorial Lecture delivered at the Vancouver Institute by John Ralston Saul on November 28, 1998. Original video recording available in the University Archives (UBC VT 796).Non UBCUnreviewedOthe

The collapse of globalism

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The Inclusive Shape of Complexity

At this time, all of us – just about everywhere in the world, especially in democracies or countries where the free market especially prevails – are victims of what could be called the Tristan and Isolde syndrome. What is the Tristan and Isolde syndrome? It is what has been taught in schools of economics for about 25 years. It says that if we all drink a magic potion – a love potion – we will suddenly lose our sense of responsibility as citizens, and it will be replaced by inevitable, passion..

The paradise eather

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