When the past informs our future

Honoring Our Past, Building Our Future.

Honouring our past and shaping our future.

One of my favourite things to do is to ask Canadians to tell the story of how they came to be in this country. Are your ancestors First Nations or Inuit or Metis, the original people of the land? Did your forebears come here for love? For money? To escape religious persecution? Did they come looking for a better future, not for themselves, but for their children? I was born in Winnipeg, Man, an...

Our past, present, and future are in our hands.

History is sometimes a combination of facts and hearsay—perspectives from varying points of view and some twisted accounts of occurrences with opinions and interpretations thrown in for color. It is challenging to piece together the facts of an event and how it leads to another, the motivations of the people behind the events, and the effects they have on people, institutions, and society, at t...

Creating the future: beyond our inheritance of the past.

In some organizations, people seek the presidency as the culmination of a career, as feather in their professional cap, or perhaps because they think they are the absolute best person to hold the position. Still others may seek the presidential role because they want to ‘‘be the association president’’ or relish the opportunity to make a presidential address. Fortunately, the American Associati...

Lessons from the past to inspire our future.