With Trump soon to be back in power, Canada, my home country, needs to focus on the opportunities, not our worst fears. That’s the key message in an opinion piece in last Saturday’s Globe and Mail, “Taking control of our relationship with Trump”. The article was co-authored by Janice Gross Stein (Belzberg Professor of Conflict […]
How Canada should negotiate with the new Trump administration
November 12, 2024 by · Leave a Comment
AI product demo: How Google’s NotebookLM helps manage complex information
November 8, 2024 by · Leave a Comment
Google calls NotebookLM an “AI-powered research and writing assistant”. It’s more than that. It “helps users understand complex information by instantly becoming an expert on uploaded sources.” You can upload various types of files to NotebookLM, give it an ask, and watch it “generate” … Focused on AI, I wanted NotebookLM to intersect the big […]
AI and Mediation: Working with the Fourth Party
November 7, 2024 by · Leave a Comment
AI is changing how professional mediators can do business. A pre-recorded presentation by Clare Fowler and Colin Rule (both with Mediate.com), for next week’s Association of Conflict Resolution conference gives a terrific snapshot of what’s possible for today’s dispute resolution professional; e.g. mediator. Click on the image below for the full presentation: The Fourth Party […]
Gender through the eyes of a primatologist
October 28, 2024 by · Leave a Comment
Last spring, I retired from staff service with a local community organization, Quadra Village Community Centre. Although the advocacy service I provided over the years was focused on seniors, the Centre offered extensive programming for early childhood, youth, and families. Often, staff team conversations touched on gender. Gaining fluency in terminology that was natural to […]
