Publications

Selected Publications

  • “Emergency of Climate Change is upon us,” Victoria Times Colonist, January 6, 2019, D4.
  • “John A. Macdonald: Both retention and change are needed,” Victoria Times Colonist, August 19, 2018, D3.
  • “Patent medicine man,” Canada’s History Magazine, October-November 2017, p. 66.
  • “John Shields: An Appreciation,” Centre for Earth and Spirit web site (see “In Memoriam: John T, Shields”), April 24, 2017 – https://centreforearthandspirit.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/John-Shields-An-Appreciation.pdf
  • “The Barber’s Legacy,” CBC Radio One’s The Sunday Edition, posted August 7, 2015, broadcast August 9, 2015 – http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-search-for-extraterrestrial-life-essay-doc-manjusha-s-match-dick-cavett-1.3180063/meeting-the-right-person-at-the-right-time-can-transform-your-life-1.3183124
  • “Quadriplegic man provides valuable lesson,” Victoria Times Colonist, December 30, 2014, p. A11. Reprinted as “The first difficult step takes a wise man,” in the Campbell River Courier-Islander, January 2, 2015, p. 12.
  • “Using Recognition to Spark Renewal and Innovation,” Public Sector Management, Vol. 12, Issue 2, 2001, pp. 21-25.
  • “Punished by Rewards? Another View,” Originally posted Nov. 19, 1999, to BBAWARDS, an internal Government of British Columbia e-bulletin board; later posted to the government’s Workplace Innovation and Awards web site.
  • “Community Building and the Public Sector Crisis” (Feature Article), Public Matters (“Campaign for Pride and Recognition” newsletter, produced by the Institute of Public Administration of Canada, a.k.a. IPAC), Vol. 1.1, 1999, pp. 3-4.
  • “Employee Involvement: A Hallmark of Excellence,” Municipal World, April, 1998, p. 27.
  • “BIC Corp.: Employee Suggestion Programs as Accountability Frameworks,” The Alternative Network (published by IPAC and the KPMG Centre for Government Foundation), 1.5, 1996, pp. 2-4.
  • “A Union Perspective on Partnership and Reinventing Government,” New Horizons, the newsletter of the international Employee Involvement Association, Summer, 1996, pp. 3, 7.
  • “Employee Recognition: The Foundation of Organizational Improvement,” The News, newsletter of the B.C. Human Resources Management Association, Vol. 32, No. 2, October, 1995, pp. 5-7.
  • “Restraint in B.C. must be fair to all segments,” Victoria Times Colonist, August 18, 1982, p. 5.
  • Three commentaries inspired by Jonathan Schell’s The Fate of the Earth: “Schell’s chilling prospect”; “A certainty of extinction”; “Standing up for humanity” (written with Bernice Levitz Packford who received the byline credit), Victoria Times Colonist, July 6, 7, and 8, 1982, p. 5 (for each article).
  • “Why not a nuclear revolt?” Victoria Times Colonist, November 23, 1981, p. 4.
  • “John Houston: Photographic Evidence of an Unsolved Mystery,” Canada West, Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring 1981, pp. 9-13.
  • “Frontier Nelson had pull: Houston attracted by liveliness, development potential,” Nelson Daily News, November 5, 1979, p. 4.
  • “Tramp Printer Extraordinary: British Columbia’s John ‘Truth’ Houston,” BC Studies, No. 40 (Winter 1978-1979), pp. 5-31. http://bcstudies.com/?q=issues/item/bc-studies-40-winter-1978
  • “Henry Adams and T.S. Eliot Together at Armageddon,” The Chelsea Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Jan.-Feb., 1979), pp. 32-35.
  • “Does Canada Need a Break?” Ontario Report, Vol. III, No. 1 (July 1978), pp. 21-23. Reprinted as “Our Political Bankruptcy” in Humanist in Canada, No. 46, Vol. XI, No. 3, pp. 12, 42.
  • “Utopia” (short story), Martlet Magazine, The Martlet (the University of Victoria’s student newspaper), Vol. XVII, Nov. 15 (Dec. 1, 1977), pp. 12-13.
  • “The Revealing Fiction of Henry Adams,” The New England Quarterly, Vol. XLIX, No. 3 (Sept. 1976), pp. 399-426. https://www.jstor.org/stable/364681?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
  • “Battling” (short story), Grain, Vol. IV, No. 1 (Feb. 1976), pp. 12-17.
  • “Lament for a Nationalism: Counterpoint to Canadian Chauvinism,” Viewpoint – CBC TV National News, September 29, 1975.
  • “The Game” (short story), Canadian Short Story Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3 (July 1975), pp. 23-25.
  • “The International Attitude and Actions of Canada Between the World Wars,” University of Victoria Historical Association Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1 (April 1973), pp. 20-37.