Chapter 5 Questions
+ Voices from the Story and Referenced Resources
Think about it
- What is the research process in your own words?
- Do you know what process you'll use to develop your ideas in this class and in life?
- How will you find your allies?
- Why can collaboration help you excel?
- What do you think the drawbacks are of working with others?
- How will you strike the right balance between creative independence and collaborative support?
- How can you further develop your communication skills?
- Why is it important to be able to build an audience for your work? Why does marketing matter?
- Are you financially literate? How can you improve your understanding of money and finance?
- Do you agree with Paul that fundraising is easy, or is it a task that you find daunting?
- How will you use the skills you learned in this story to help you in this class and in life?
- Why is it important to understand politics even if your focus is research and storytelling?
- What did you learn about the political process? What surprised you?
- What's our political system's best quality?
- What's our political system's worst quality?
- How can research and story help enhance our political process?
- Why does civil society matter?
- How do grassroots movements play a role in shaping our world?
- Why is it important to get involved in your community?
- Why is it important to understand how our democracy works, no matter what you do in life?
- As a consumer, how do you influence the market?
- Do you believe business can help advance good ideas in our society? Why or why not?
- Why is it important to understand economics and the role of business in society, no matter what you do in life?
- Does the process matter?
- Do outcomes matter?
- What process will you use to answer your better question?
- What outcome is necessary to balance people and nature?
- What do you value about our democracy? What will you do to enhance our country and our world?
Reflection Activity
- Open Mic: Just one option this time! Take the floor and tell your peers what lessons you've learned in this story, and the class as a whole. Also! Tell your peers how you might use these lessons to answer your better question.
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Referenced Resources
- Grizzly Bears
- Corporate Knights Magazine
- Waterlution
- The Only Way to Eat an Elephant
- How to Eat an Elephant
- Youth leadership and cultural programs
- Volunteer Canada
- EcoSchools Canada
- Research funding and awards
- How to Write a Perfect Paragraph
- How to Write a Press Release: 5 Types of Press Releases
- The Psychological Comforts of Storytelling
- What Makes Storytelling So Effective For Learning?
- Unleashing the Power of Marketing
- Communicate Your Point Of View Through Storytelling
- The Power Of Social-Impact Storytelling
- Why The Over-Reliance On Social Media Is Suffocating Your Marketing Results (and what to do instead)
- Is society becoming too dependent on social media?
- Social Media Marketing Doesn't Matter
- Powerful Strategies to Improve Your Communication Skills
- How To Build Community And Why It Matters So Much
- The serious business of being a social influencer
- Movement Building
- How to Start a Movement: Building a Social and Political Campaign
- Changing Company Culture Requires a Movement, Not a Mandate
- Communication
- Marketing
- Order Paper and Notice Paper
- How new laws and regulations are created
- Office of the Registrar of Lobbyists
- Justice Laws Website
- The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- Right to Life, Liberty and Security of the Person
- Mobility Rights
- Writing the policy
- Types of Bills - The Legislative Process
- Elections Canada
- Why door knocking works: the 'terrifying' art of political canvassing
- The art of political persuasion
- Apathy is Boring
- Contemporary Canadian Govt. & Politics: Getting Involved in Government and Politics
- Youth Council Toolkit
- Prime Minister's Youth Council
- Lethbridge MP seeking new members for Youth Advisory Board
- Youth advisory council application
- Youth Advisory Committee
- Forward. For Young Canadians.
- Toronto Youth Cabinet
- Youth Advisory Council (YAC)
- Councillor? Alderman? Alderbroad? Calgary to choose
- Current Members of Parliament
- Civic Leadership
- The political ‘policy’ convention: what it is, what it isn’t, and what we should be paying attention to
- Compare the party platforms on these top election issues
- Political participation in Canada
- The Social and Civic Sources of Voting and Participation
- Are Canadian Political Parties Empty Vessels?
- Canadians Speak Out on Barriers to Political Participation
- Political Parties and Leaders
- Political parties - all of them - are failing to connect with Canadians
- Why partisans are responsible for the mess Canada has made of the pandemic
- Canadian Political Parties
- A Light in the Window: Ending Apartheid in South Africa
- Young Liberals' slogan a hot-button issue
- 6 kids, 6 parties: Why these kids are election volunteersYouth-Led Social Change: Topics, Engagement Types, Organizational Types, Strategies, and Impacts
- Alberta Liberal: Environment
- Western Canada High School
- The Profound Value of Market Values
- The invisible hand: A concept that explains hidden economic forces in the market
- Voting with Your Wallet Is the Ultimate Consumer Power
- Corporations Can Change The World For The Better; Here’s How We Can Help
- How Big Business Is Driving Social Change
- Consumers Should Be Voting Every Day—with Their Wallets
- Recent Study Reveals More Than a Third of Global Consumers Are Willing to Pay More for Sustainability as Demand Grows for Environmentally-Friendly Alternatives
- How capitalism can be a force for greater good
- Mistrust of institutions correlates with gap in financial literacy – now is the time for change
- Is Big Business Really That Bad?
- Is Corporate Change Really Possible?
- Corporations Are People Too
- By popular demand: Companies that changed their ways
- The push and pull: Consumer demand driving ESG reforms in business
- Corporations are and should be people
- Corporations Can Change The World For The Better
- Canada's sleaziest corporate scandal
- Planet Earth's Future Now Rests in the Hands of Big Business
- Change Isn't Easy
- Hal Kvisle
- The rise of the eco-friendly consumer
- Sustainability in business: Staying ahead of the curve
- Business is using COP15 to show it's serious about saving nature; environmentalists aren't so sure
- Seeing green: Can corporations find allies among environmentalists?
- How to Talk to the Other Side: Environmentalists vs. Wall Street
- Why we should embrace big business
- Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability
- Why relying on new technology won't save the planet
- How digital technology and innovation can help protect the planet
- Technology As Our Planet's Last Best Hope
- Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
- The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: Why Paper Still Beats Screens
- Why Social Media Makes People Unhappy—And Simple Ways to Fix It
- Our broken news is breaking us: Political analyst Chris Stirewalt on media, polarization, and possible solutions
- Why Making Mistakes Is What Makes Us Human
- To fail is to be human.
- Why activism leads to so much bad writing
- As trust in the media falls, there may be no moral high ground left to take
- How Harmful Is Social Media?
- Research findings that are probably wrong cited far more than robust ones, study finds
- Democracy in decline worldwide, new report says
- Israel-Hamas War
- The Niger Coup's Outsized Global Impact
- 'A Crisis Coming': The Twin Threats to American Democracy
- Yemen's Tragedy: War, Stalemate, and Suffering
- DR Congo: An unprecedented crisis goes ignore
- Canadian MPs across the spectrum see threats to democracy: ‘There’s no common middle ground’
- Canada can't be complacent about threats to our democracy
- How Canada advances democracy in the world
- Promoting Democracy and Human Rights: Lessons of the 1990s
- Democracy - the United Nations
- Democracy Building: A Cultural Challenge
- Canadians should pay attention to the democratic crisis in America
- Canada is a great democracy. But you need to understand it.
- Democracy is under attack everywhere – including in Canada. But what do we mean by democracy?
- What is the Rule of Law - and why does it matter?
- Violence in Political History: The Challenges of Teaching About the Politics of Power and Resistance
- War and Violence in the Ancient World
- Canada's democracy is growing stronger as world weakens
- Character assault. Contempt. This week showed us the ugly, sneering face of Canadian politics
- Want kids to behave? Don't take them to question period
- Data Dive with Nik Nanos: Canadians are losing faith in the country’s most vital institutions
- Canadians frustrated by state of democracy, study says
- Mapped: The World's Legal Government Systems
- Maggie MacDonald
- Opinion: 67% agree Canada is broken — and here's why
- Why Perfection Is The Enemy Of Done
- Democracies in Decline
- Poll shows many Canadians disconnected from democracy, vulnerable to populism
- The environment is Canada's biggest wedge issue
- Extinction crisis threatens humanity
- 'Massive failure': The world has missed all its biodiversity targets
- Many Across the Globe Are Dissatisfied With How Democracy Is Working
- Canada has devolved into a childish country incapable of solving big problems
- This Is How Democracy Dies
- Donna Kennedy Glans
- Comforting ourselves to death
- Canadians are struggling. We need less talk, more action
- The Power of Citizen Diplomacy
- Let's reflect on the gift of democracy before it's too late
- Be thankful for the gift of democracy
- How Hitler Transformed a Democracy Into a Tyranny
- TIMELINE | Same-sex rights in Canada
- World politics explainer: the end of Apartheid
- What modern campaigners can learn from the fight for women’s suffrage
- Biodiversity loss raises risk of 'extinction cascades'
- Stop biodiversity loss or we could face our own extinction, warns UN
- Cathedral Thinking