ScaleDown Radio, April 13, 2009
Today was all about determining what it will take to reinvigorate the mood here in our beloved city. We’ve determined that there needs to be a change in leadership to help elicit a glimmer of hope, and Andrew and I dedicate the following hour in figuring out how to help elicit that glimmer of hope.
A big part of changing the mood will take place on Novenber 8, 2010, and leading up to that date will be some citizen engagement taking place this week during the Ward Boundary Review public open house’s this week.
We interviewed Steve Paikin from TVO’s TheAgenda, as well as the Mayor of Waterloo, Brenda Halloran. Believe it or not, there ARE politicians out there who interact and communicate with their constituents. No, seriously - there are.
On the air we talked about the plant sale at Lanspeary Park. Click here for more info. Also, you can join WindsorEats and help clean up your city.
Tonight, see Tara Watts at Phog Lounge, and tomorrow check in to see The Pack A.D. w/sg Another Saturday Knight at the same venue.
Listen in to today’s ScaleDown Radio to find out more.
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Download link doesn’t work. I think you’re missing the .mp3 at the end of the link.
That’s exactly what it was. It’s all fixed now - Thanks BBS!
Just listened to the show
P.S. just to let you know, I’m a big fan of Gord Henderson noting that he has been kind to me in a couple of great articles (My favorite is called “Groom with a View”
Chris, you stated in the show I look at the canal vision and state that it works with the urban village, that you would actually “love” the canal plan with the exception that you don’t trust them. The figures coming out, the studies and had no confidence in the information being released.
What would you require to gain that trust. Would the release of the report with the scrutiny that follows be enough?
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I would also note how I find it interesting that we at scaledown are so easy to trust out of town politicans and how that relationship seems to be mutual as out of town personalities and politicians also find it easy to trust Scaledown.
Maybe we need to clean the slate mutually in a situation where we give our politiicans the benefit of the doubt and start again if they do the same for scaledown.
How many out of city elected officials have given scaledown their time?
Windsor do the brain gain!
Remember the debate that defined the 1990’s in Canada?
No, I’m not talking about tackling our out-of-control debt; we all agreed that we needed to face the music on that issue. And luckily, we made the difficult choices then. This is the reason why we are in such an envious position today.
The debate I’m talking about is the brain drain. The myriad reports, the numerous heated political debates. In my opinion, no other issue ruled that decade.
In the end, most experts agree on the effects and causes of the brain drain.
From:
Wikipedia - Brain drain
Brain drain or human capital flight is a large emigration of individuals with technical skills or knowledge, normally due to conflict, lack of opportunity, political instability, or health risks. Brain drain is usually regarded as an economic cost, since emigrants usually take with them the fraction of value of their training sponsored by the government. It is a parallel of capital flight which refers to the same movement of financial capital. The term was coined by the Royal Society to describe the emigration of “scientists and technologists” to North America from post-war Europe.
With the U.S. fiscal picture a bigger mess then Canada’s ever was in the 1990s; with the U.S. government refusing to make the difficult choices now; with Canada’s finances in much better shape; with Windsor a critical beachhead for U.S. immigration to Canada - I wonder whether we will be doing the brain gain dance at the downtown canal?