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Everyone’s life has a soundtrack. It’s what you listen to when you’re gearing up to clean the house on a Saturday morning or go for a drive. It’s the album you play when you’re walking to work, making out or doing the dishes. It’s the singing in church, chanting in prayer, drumming in celebration, tolling […]
This morning finds Your Working Girl lost for words as the pre-order publicity unrolls for her new book Cap in Hand: How Charities are Failing the People of Canada and the World. Her publisher appears to have used them all up. So, for today only, I’m turning the floor over to him. Please give it […]
Attention Gentlest of Blog Readers! My new book baby is on the way from Civil Sector Press! Received cover mock-ups from the publisher today. Pub date is January 20, 2017. Pre-order publicity starts December 12th. Don’t worry. I will definitely keep you posted when that business goes live. Here’s a sneak peak at the cover. […]
On October 14, 2016, the Globe and Mail published a story, New, flashy SickKids advertisement aimed at untapped donors. Where, I thought, as someone who has worked in the charitable sector for 25 years, could the untapped markets for the Sick Kids Foundation be hiding? If Torontonians were asked to name one charity, they would […]
There’s a racist running for the White House. And we now know the Toronto Blue Jays will be playing the team with the most racist mascot in baseball, the team from Cleveland, for the ALCS title. How fucking great is that? When an entire country of baseball fans doesn’t even want to say your name? […]
It gives me great pleasure to offer you, gentle readers all, my new e-book,”And then I said: The Best of Your Working Girl.” And I want you to download it for free. It’s good as a stand alone, but also excellent advance reading for my new traditionally published book, Cap in Hand: How Charities Are […]
I’ve always wanted to be the biggest real estate man to come down the pike. LEONA HELMSLEY The American election—it’s getting too much. There are so many levels of serious dysfunction; immoderate dosing is bound to have a lasting effect, like reading too much about serial killers. It could have a long lasting effect on […]
Looking back over the last two weeks of political conventioneering, and having watched both the Republican and Democratic conventions pretty well gavel-to-gavel, one of my takeaways is that, despite the wide divide in some policy areas, the number of similarities between Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders is quite marked. And, judging by the language and the issues some […]
Our souls were seared by the racist violence we witnessed this week. Feelings of hopelessness and exhaustion have been left in its wake. What can we—especially us white folks—practically do to take a stand against this anathema? You may feel hopeless and helpless, but there is a way for you to get involved in important […]
It’s been seven days since a man armed with military-styled weaponry walked into a gay club in Orlando and open fired, killing 49 people and wounding dozens more. But I just haven’t been able to move on. My son is a young gay man and I admit to a certain empathetic vulnerability. News reports cover […]
Your Working Girl 