We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.

Canada is like several puzzles that we are all working on at the same time. Everyone has a part to add, but no one has seen the whole picture yet.

There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.

The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.

Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.

There must be engagement: there must be protest.