Practical traction after a hard hit—field notes and tools for rebuilding without performative positivity
A reflection on Introduction to Criminology: A Canadian Open Education Resource by Shereen Hassan and Dan Lett Introduction Introduction to Criminology: A Canadian Open Education Resource provides more than an explanation of crime, criminal behaviour, and the Canadian justice system. It examines how societies decide what is right or wrong, how conduct becomes criminalized, who … Continue reading Learning Journal: Introduction to Criminology
A reflection on The Sociology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained Introduction Reading The Sociology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained changed the way I understand sociology. Before engaging with the book, I largely viewed sociology as the academic study of society, institutions, social classes, and group behaviour. While this definition was technically correct, it did not … Continue reading Learning Journal: The Sociology Book
Émile Durkheim’s Suicide through organizational behaviour, conflict management, and the Standing on the Ledge framework Introduction Émile Durkheim’s Suicide: A Study in Sociology, first published in 1897, was a major attempt to demonstrate that even an intensely personal act could be studied partly as a social fact. Durkheim examined differences in suicide rates among groups … Continue reading Integration, Regulation, Communication, and Social Rupture
Date: Calendar week: June 30-July 6, 2026 Category: Field Lab Learning Journals > MGT2382 Learning Journal Course link: MGT2382 Organizational Behaviour - Week 8: Power and influencing; McShane Chapter 10. Lens: Critical lens: power is not automatically abusive, but hidden or unaccountable power becomes dangerous quickly. Opening reflection This week’s material on power and influence … Continue reading MGT2382 Week 8 Learning Journal: Power, Influence, and the Ethics of How Work Really Gets Moved
There is a mistake people make when they talk about the Great Depression. They speak as if it began with one event. The stock market crashed, and then everything fell apart. That is the simple version. It is also the dangerous version. The Great Depression did not begin with one bad day on Wall Street. … Continue reading Before the Fall: What the Road to the Great Depression Can Teach Us Now
Reader's Moment: The visible argument looks small, but it feels bigger than the facts should justify. That usually means the surface issue is carrying freight from somewhere deeper. Why this matters: Because positions are what people say they want. Interests are what they are trying to protect. From the Ledge: A lot of conflict gets … Continue reading What They Are Fighting About Usually Is Not the Whole Fight
Hey there, Standing on the Ledge, how are we all this morning? I was not sure at first whether this belonged here or over at Unplugged Pagan, but the more I sat with it, the more I realized this is a Standing on the Ledge post. Because this is not just about an airplane. It … Continue reading Make it Fly: The Avro Arrow, The Canadian Dream, and Why it still Matters
Hey there, Standing on the Ledge. How are y’all today? Today I want to talk about something that sits in the dark corners of commercial cleaning in Canada, and too often stays there because the floors still get done, the garbage still gets emptied, and the building still looks clean enough for the people upstairs … Continue reading What Gets Hidden in the Shine
Hey there, Standing on the Ledge. How are y’all today? Today I want to talk plain about something I know from the inside and something Canada’s own numbers keep backing up from the outside. The commercial cleaning industry in this country has a hard truth sitting at its centre: too many people want clean, safe, … Continue reading What Is Wrong With the Commercial Cleaning Industry in Canada? Plenty
Hey there, Standing on the Ledge. How are we all today? Today was one of those annoy-the-hell-out-of-me kind of days. But buried inside the aggravation was a truth that explains a whole lot of what has gone wrong in the commercial cleaning industry. There is an old rule in service work: you get to pick … Continue reading Cheap, Fast, Good — Pick Two
Standing on the Ledge 