Now, let us all take a deep breath and forge on into the future; knitting at the ready.
One of the things that could be exciting about this next phase of Canadian politics is if we could maybe have co-leaders.
We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment.
If you have a culture based on hunting and fishing and all the animals are disappearing and the fish are sick, then you can't live traditionally. Then your treaty is being violated. Obviously there are degrees of choice in terms of that decision to fight.
If we could get proportional representation and open up roles for smaller parties in coalition governments, we could start intentionally breaking down the cult of personality that is one of the most distorting things about our electoral system in Canada. We had a constellation of social actors behind the Leap Manifesto. And we created something bigger than ourselves.
What we face in Canada are multiple overlapping crises. We have the climate crisis, which is screaming down on us - all of the predictions are coming true even faster than the scientists thought. We have the inequality crisis, where the Panama Papers are a great reminder that the one per cent have actually created their own economy. We still have the crisis of child poverty, which has never been dealt with despite decades of concerned words from politicians.
Catastrophic damage from climate-driven extreme weather is now an annual reality. The cost of not dealing with it will be much greater than if we try to pre-empt some of those disaster cleanups by actually investing in the shift now.
I was getting paid for my art, because I was always an under-achiever.
You have to be afraid for it to count as bravery.
When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.
No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.