By Jeff Jacobson A few weeks ago, CBC announced a new set of policies regarding paid speaking engagements by its news anchors, reporters and on-air editorialists. The blog post, which unveiled the policies can be viewed here: review-of-speaking-engagements. In short, they have pledged to review these engagements with more scrutiny, ruling out their on-air talents […]

“I thank the eternal power that I meet my end, not from secret plots, nor from the pain of a tedious illness, nor by the fate of a criminal, but that in the mid-career of glorious renown I have been found worthy of so noble a departure from this world.” That’s the Roman emperor Julian, […]

“Make up your minds that happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.” That’s Pericles, speaking to the public at a ceremonial burial of Athenian soldiers 2,445 years ago. Now, we only have the words—we don’t know what Pericles’s delivery of them was like, but we do know that his performance was […]

Every month on the 7th day we post a new edition of “7 on 7,” where Jeff Jacobson will ask 7 questions of one of JJA’s speakers. We are proud to feature Mark Sedra today. Mark runs the Security Governance Group (SGG) and is a contributor on Foreign Policy Matters to many media outlets including […]

By Jeff Jacobson Earlier this month, the TED conference took place here in Vancouver BC. For 5 days, the likes of Bill and Melinda Gates, Sergey Brin and Page, Jeff Bezos and others convened on the Vancouver Convention Centre for a week of enlightenment and idea sharing, watching talks by everyone from Ray Kurzweil to […]

Last Wednesday March 19, I had the privilege of attending the “Art of Marketing” conference in Vancouver. It took place during the TED festivities so many of the speakers were in town regardless. I’m talking about people like Mitch Joel, John Jantsch and Keith Ferrazzi, all who did a good job with their presentations. One […]