The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught. —Professor Richard Feynman

“Measurement is fabulous. Unless you are busy measuring what is easy to measure as opposed to what is important.”

"Enough is enough:" Loblaws CEO commands all employees to hunt down, kill anyone participating in boycott thebeaverton.com/2024/05/enough… #loblawsboycott #BoycottLBC

"Where Has Olivia Chow Been?" by Nick Hune-Brown and published in The Local Magazine (Archived Account) is a finalist for Profiles! Congratulations! #NMA24 magazine-awards.com/2024nominees

"Everywhere this chemical is, there’s a cloud of death. There’s a cloud of sickness." The details of this story are nuts. Just incredible, diligent, public service investigative work here by Leah Borts-Kuperman and Urbi Khan thenarwhal.ca/sterigenics-mi…

Residents in the Greater Toronto Area had no idea a company operating in their community uses a known carcinogen. We dug into it in a massive investigation with The Local Magazine (Archived Account), Denise Balkissoon writes in this week’s newsletter: thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-ste…

The centre of government in times of complexity - an interesting @oecd review of global practices, with some interesting examples on ensuring continuity between administrations, whole of gov't approaches oecd-ilibrary.org/fr/governance/…

Transforming complex systems requires a portfolio of programs aimed at a common goal, not a strategy dictating.. how to solve the challenge. Rather than trying to conceptualize the complexity away, successful missions will make it central to policymaking project-syndicate.org/commentary/mis…

Several times EVERY SINGLE DAY some troll posts (or emails me) the below article as proof I'm a pharma shill. Huh? This was a peer reviewed grant from the independent CIHR to study misinformation. I didn't receive a dime. Funds held by university & supported students,

The highly pro-inflammatory and pervasive microplastics and nanoplastics: previously found in arteries and associated with increased in heart attacks and strokes, now in all human testes that were assessed. theguardian.com/environment/ar…

There have been untold rounds of media closures and layoffs especially at the local level. For The Philanthropist Journal / The Local Magazine (Archived Account) I wrote about how saving local journalism means reinventing it rather than just salvaging whatever’s left. thephilanthropist.ca/2024/05/dont-s…

Hey, it's The Local's five year anniversary! What a gratifying, fun experience to help build a publication from scratch with my genius colleagues. Grateful to all the contributors over the years who've made The Local what it is, and excited about what's to come.

.The Local Magazine (Archived Account) has WON the Best News Coverage (Community Publication) category for coverage of the Toronto 2023 mayoral election! Congratulations to editors Nick Hune-Brown, Inori Roy, Tai Huynh and the team of contributors! #DPA24

Thrilled to win this award! Thanks and congratulations to all the Local contributors, too many to name, who worked with us on this issue!

"We see 2 mental models for systems change being used in philanthropy: systems dynamics & systems emergence. We need to be aware of which models we are using and why" scholarworks.gvsu.edu/tfr/vol16/iss1…

Fathers don’t usually die during childbirth

"We propose a new type of portfolio practice that invites orgs to develop the capacity to radically open up the governance & operation of portfolios as a distributed network of actors, actions, & assets, aligned by a common intent" docs.google.com/document/d/1Xs… Dark Matter Labs

Wow. Never thought I would see this happening :-) A fund to support system orchestration work blog.kumu.io/financing-syst…

As usual, the Chilean gov't public sector innovation index, now in its 5th year, makes for some interesting reading - incl an attempt at measuring innovation "velocity" indice.lab.gob.cl

The winner of the #NMA25 Editor Grand Prix is Tai Huynh! For their work with thelocal.to! The jury said: "Tai Huynh is a shining example of what it means to be an editor in contemporary Canadian journalism."