Uban Leadership Awards 2012

June 2012 - Toronto, Ontario – Dr. Joseph Du of the Winnipeg Chinatown Development Corporation and the Winnipeg Chinese Cultural and Community Centre will join eleven individuals and groups that have been chosen as the winners of this year’s Urban Leadership Awards program for making Canada’s cities healthier, safer, and more dynamic places to live and work.Ranging from a project aimed at providing education to remanded youth to a centre that cultivates technology entrepreneurship, to individuals who have dedicated years to revitalizing the core of their cities or building the capacity of their communities, the winners this year once again demonstrated creativity, resourcefulness, and persistence to improving quality of life in cities across Canada. Selection of this year’s winners was done by a cross-disciplinary jury, under the chairmanship of CUI Board Member Rupen Seoni. “We had impressive nominations from all across the country to select from” said Mr. Seoni. “We ended up with recipients that represent Eastern, Western, and Central Canada which is wonderful because it demonstrates that no matter where you live, there are amazing people out there who are applying their passion to making their communities and cities better places to live.”
The jury also awarded a City Champion award in recognition of Stephen Dupuis’s legacy of leadership, community and vision for the home building and development industry in the GTA. The award acknowledges his impact on the many issues that affect the industry and their numerous consumers across the region, including his passionate advocacy for affordable homeownership.
The awards ceremony to honour this year’s exceptional urban leaders will be held on June 8th from 11:30 am-2:30-pm at the Toronto Board of Trade. (First Canadian Place) Join us for lunch at this downtown location before seeing the following awards presented:
2012 Urban Leadership Award Winners

City Soul
Ruth Howard, Jumblies Theatre: for inspiring creative community-building and fostering social connections through Jumblies’ distinctive blend of art and community development.Local Hero

Dr. Joseph Du, Winnipeg Chinatown Development Corporation: for his sustained leadership to revitalize both the Winnipeg Chinatown and the Winnipeg Chinese Community, which has attracted investment, development, and new families back to Winnipeg’s core area.Global City

Waterloo Accelerator Centre: for cultivating technology entrepreneurship and transforming the Waterloo region into a recognized cluster for innovation and commercialization within the high-technology and information communications technology (ICT) industriesInnovation

STEP Home: for bringing together a collaborative of 12 programs through 10 agencies at 19 sites to provide options and supports to end persistent homelessness in Waterloo RegionProsperity

Attainable Home Calgary Corporation: for expanding the supply of affordable, adequate housing while retaining and recruiting the skilled workforce essential to the sustainability and growth of CalgaryRenewal

Andy Fillmore, Halifax Regional Municipality: for bringing about a unique collaborative approach to city building projects in HalifaxSafety and ResilienceAmadeusz and The Look at My Life Project: for providing remanded young people with the support and opportunity to positively change their lives through education
Youth
Hibaq Gelle, Youth Health Action Network (YHAN) with Toronto Public Health: for mobilizing youth around the globe with her passionate advocacy and leadership in support of the Somalian community both in Africa and CanadaDavid Crombie Award

Joseph Mancinelli: in recognition of his significant contribution to the public realm over many years in his role with LiUNA (Labourers’ International Union of North America)
Jane Jacobs Lifetime Achievement Award

Anne Golden: for her long-standing leadership in public policy, her academic work and her varied leadership experience in business, not-for-profit and government sectors
For more information about this year’s Urban Leadership Awards Program and to buy tickets for the ceremony, please visit our website here.About the Urban Leadership Awards Program

Since its inception in 2004, the Urban Leadership Awards program has been paying tribute to individuals, groups and organizations that have made a profound and lasting impact on the quality of life in Canada’s cities and urban regions.
The awards program is also a fundraiser for the Institute in support of our internship program, dedicated to providing undergraduate scholars with practical work experience.Members of the JuryMembers on the ULA Jury panel include:

Mr. John Kim Bell, Founder, National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation and energy executive leading the Aboriginal Affairs effort for Brookfield Renewable Power; Dr. Catherine Chandler-Crichlow, Executive Director at the Centre of Excellence for Financial Services Education, Toronto Financial Services Alliance; Ms. Helen Cooper, Former Mayor of Kingston and Head of the OMB, Manager, Ministry of Community and Social Services; Mr. Rupe Seoni, CUI Board Member and Vice President and Practice Leader, Environics Analytics; and Ms. Claudette Toupin, Regional Director, Canada School of Public Service, Manitoba.

Malcolm Gladwell unmasked

 Digging a little under the skin of this popular pop-intellectual gurn, author of The Blink. Check out what some have uncovered - have an open mind. There are many sides to one story, remember that.
http://www.alternet.org/story/155770/is_malcolm_gladwell_america%27s_most_successful_propagandist_and_corporate_shill?page=entire

Modern Day Inquisition proves the Church has changed very little

How long does the Roman Catholic Church thinks it can go on with the archaic policies that shut women out of leadership. The Church would not have been around if women did not rally around this dying institution.  Instead of listening to women and try to understand, the male hierarchy has used their powerful clamp to silence the voice of progressive nuns in the Church.
It is no secret that the Catholic Church is all but a hollow institution of rituals and ceremonies that is far removed from practical lives of people living in today's world. On any given Sunday most Churches are empty. Those who go to Church take their bodies there and go through the motion and then return to their lives of birth controls, divorces and separations and other so called sins. There is hardly any connection left between the spirit of the Church and its members. 
The Pope better wake up from his Tower and look outside his window. There are real people with real lives and those who want to make a difference. Women who want to contribute in more meaningful ways because they believe that they can do more. They want more.
http://www.alternet.org/story/155696/why_the_pope_hates_nuns?page=entire

On April 28, nearly 33 years after Theresa Kane's unprecedented challenge to the pope, the Vatican delivered a verdict against LCWR, the nuns' group led by Kane in 1979: Its members were defying Catholic doctrine, Vatican investigators said, by promoting "radical feminist themes," as well as contradicting church teaching on homosexuality and the no-girls-allowed priesthood. Further, as Laurie Goodstein of the New York Times reported it, "The sisters were also reprimanded for making public statements that 'disagree with or challenge the bishops, who are the church's authentic teachers of faith and morals.'"


As punishment, Cardinal William Levada, who now occupies Ratzinger's old job at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, appointed Archbishop J. Peter Sartain of Seattle to oversee LCWR for up to five years, giving him final say on every speaker at the group's conference and every public utterance made in its name. He'll also revise LCWR's governing statues and oversee the revision of a handbook that, according to the Times, was "used to facilitate dialogue on matters that the Vatican said should be settled doctrine." Links between LCWR and two liberal Catholic groups will also be investigated.

Speaking on CBS This Morning [video] last week, Sister Maureen Fiedler, host of the public radio program, Interfaith Voices, said, "If this were the corporate world, I think we'd call it a hostile takeover."


LCWR Board Meets to Review CDF Report



..June 1, 2012


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

[Washington, DC] The national board of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) held a special meeting in Washington, DC from May 29-31 to review, and plan a response to, the report issued to LCWR by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.


The board members raised concerns about both the content of the doctrinal assessment and the process by which it was prepared. Board members concluded that the assessment was based on unsubstantiated accusations and the result of a flawed process that lacked transparency. Moreover, the sanctions imposed were disproportionate to the concerns raised and could compromise their ability to fulfill their mission. The report has furthermore caused scandal and pain throughout the church community, and created greater polarization.

The board determined that the conference will take the following steps:

•On June 12 the LCWR president and executive director will return to Rome to meet with CDF prefect Cardinal William Levada and the apostolic delegate Archbishop Peter Sartain to raise and discuss the board’s concerns.


•Following the discussions in Rome, the conference will gather its members both in regional meetings and in its August assembly to determine its response to the CDF report.


The board recognizes this matter has deeply touched Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world as evidenced by the thousands of messages of support as well as the dozens of prayer vigils held in numerous parts of the country. It believes that the matters of faith and justice that capture the hearts of Catholic sisters are clearly shared by many people around the world. As the church and society face tumultuous times, the board believes it is imperative that these matters be addressed by the entire church community in an atmosphere of openness, honesty, and integrity.






Contact: Sister Annmarie Sanders, IHM – LCWR Director of Communications - 301-588-4955 (office) - 301-672-3043 (cell) - asanders@lcwr.org






June 1, 2012