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Chris Corrigan

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Facilitator, teacher, musician, football supporter. Interested in complexity, dialogue, a better world, and the Art of Hosting conversations that matter. Settler […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ cosocial.ca/@ChrisCorrigan, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

@mpjgregoire You're right. They could. And I'm being more polemical than I should be in saying that governments NEED to do this. The real way to remove the capital markets from social policy discussions is to self-finance and reduce the need to borrow, especially if you don't have a sovereign […]

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@mpjgregoire yeah I think it’s harder being in the EU. But the fear is that a country WILL default which throws the euro into chaos. That was the problem with Greece in 2015 I think. I would have to check that. The observation about the markets is just that - an observation. There is no way for […]

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@mpjgregoire this goes back to our discussion of wealth concentration. The financial markets are not subject to national policy decisions and can demand the terms of repayment on their investment without worrying about the social consequences of the decisions. a country has to take to get there […]

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@mpjgregoire thanks for the article. That little paragraph about currency sovereignty is important. France can’t print more money unlike us or the USA or Britain. This makes euro-zone countries more like provinces than nations. It doesn’t have that option for debt liquidity. Regardless every […]

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Dialogic containers and the danger of metaphors I'm writing about dialogic containers these days. They are tricky to describe, and in the same way that Mike asserts a sophisticated understanding of systems, it's important to find helpful metaphor for a dialogic container. As facilitators we are […]

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@mpjgregoire No need to apologize. I think we keep sharing interesting perspectives on these issues. I see it as an ongoing conversation, not a repetitive one. And not one in which a victor needs to be declared.

Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@mpjgregoire yeah. We’ve chatted about this before eh? I appreciate The Economist because they don’t make stuff up. I agree about what they are saying. The question then becomes what do we do. The most prosperous countries in the most prosperous times in human history and somehow we can’t fund […]

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Lots of new stuff is bubbling up into the Art of Hosting we teach, including different ways of teaching. Read on to find out more.... www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/th…

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

So the question becomes, how much democracy is present here. How much SHOULD be present and is there a balance that is acceptable or is it irreconcilable to imagine that bond markets and democratic ideals can coexist for mutual benefit on the issues of social development?

Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

From today’s Economist on the protests in France. Students and teachers unions protesting for earnest investments in education infrastructure will always take a second seat to what the bond markets want to do in a world where infrastructure funding relies on private capital.

So far, protesters have not been placated by the government's response to their demands. Edouard Geffray, the education minister, has promised an extra 3,000 supply teachers to help tackle understaffing. Unions say this is not enough. Meanwhile, Emmanuel Macron's centrist government has promised to discuss greater transparency over the way in which university applications are assessed. But the government has little room to spend more on buildings and repairs, another student complaint. It is already trying to bring down a budget deficit that will reach 5.4% of GDP this year, far above European Union rules, and is under pressure from the bond markets. That will not change, however much students protest.

Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

It is unnecessary for you to use hate to convince me of your policies. If your policies dont stand on merits, a little casual hate isn’t going to carry the day. These people need to be kept away from public governance. Kudos to the Conservative Party for removing her […]

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@mpjgregoire @thewalrus@bird.makeup @deborahh @thewalrus.ca @thewalrus@mastodon.social they also publish an RSS Feed.

Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@mpjgregoire @deborahh or he might have just gone somewhere that was cheap to get tuition before transferring elsewhere. Seems@plenty of folks who go to school here end up hating it.

Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

How rivers of conflict flow I don't love using Jeff Bezos as an example of anything virtuous, and the anecdote in…... www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/ho…

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I am way too online for my own good, and I had an unreasonably large twitter following, and I really *enjoyed* twitter for a lot of years, and yet leaving there and never looking back was maybe the easiest what-felt-like-a-big-ethical decision I've ever made.

Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

The link in the next post captures my experience exactly. Musk’s messing with Twitter cost me 2500 followers many of whom were specific and important to my business. First he created an algorithm that separated us all and then most of them left social media altogether (or went to LinkedIn whose […]

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@mpjgregoire (I will also add that it is well-known that the right does not succeed because of these radical ideas. It succeeds only when their opposition is divided. Same is true of the left. Cf. BC Politics)

Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@mpjgregoire in short there is nothing interesting or innovative about Duhaime’s program. He is literally aping every single centre and right wing party in the democratic world. The National Post breathlessly holds him up as a lantern holder for the conservative movement. He is only following […]

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@mpjgregoire come election time, the simplest answers get praised and rewarded. The challenges of governance await the victors. The reality of crisis management awaits them too. I have very little faith in the communications strategists, pollsters and populist podium bangers that they are […]

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@mpjgregoire it is now standard to run and get elected on the idea that 1. All deficits are bad 2. Corporate jobs cuts losses must be avoided at all costs. 3. Government job losses must be enacted as quickly as possible and will have no downstream effects. 4. Government waste always exists and […]

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@mpjgregoire on the one hand, we are this week decrying 60,000+ job losses in Canada. On the other we have leaders like this PROMISING to add another 20,000 to that number. Why do we think that those 60,000 jobs were not also “wasteful” and products of bloated bureaucracy and corruption? The […]

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@paige the parties who would be responsible for its implementation have been finely tuned and optimized to obtain and hold power in the current system. This creates a deep path dependancy which constrains any proposal that doesn’t look like what we already doing. The concentration of influence […]

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@mpjgregoire I always found those prices charming. I think once with a friend we choose whiskies based on a random number between 1-100 applied to a price under $30 or something.

Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@mpjgregoire thanks. Just for you, the menu. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jzq2ehqkr0f1…

Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

The end of an era. The Dam Pub in Meaford, Ontario closes. www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/th…

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

I dont mean to be unkind but how am I supposed to respond to a whole article of voters sharing their basic ignorance about how elections work and then laying the blame for their confusion elsewhere? I’ve been patiently explaining it to people who dont understand, but it’s so weird (and […]

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

I might have added something to this chalkboard at Pom Pom ice cream in Thornbury Ontario.

Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

@harold just when I had a small thought again that maybe I should republish my blog posts on substack. Phew. Thanks for helping me remember why I dont in the first place.

Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

This was a lot of words to try to avoid saying “Because Elon Musk is a fucking asshole.” www.cbc.ca/news/politics/elon-musk-…

Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@jfmezei @mpjgregoire this is good news. It means Alberta never existed so therefore it can never leave. Well done everyone!

Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

The most Canadian morning possible Crossing Otter Creek near Smiths Falls, Ontario on the VIA 643. I'm on the VIA train from Ottawa to Toronto. We've just passed through Smiths Falls, streaking past paper white birch trees, golden fields, blazing orange maple trees, marsh reeds turned red […]

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

All the ways sea levels get piled up on the west coast during storms and El Niño events. Fascinating! www.cbc.ca/news/science/kelvin-wave…

Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

A new way of describing the role of a complexity practitioner on research teams. www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/th…

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@mpjgregoire yup. I remember 1976 and the early 1999s.

Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@mpjgregoire I have actually. I was actually in Quebec over the weekend, albeit Gatineau + Wakefield, so not really the real world. lol. But still. I’m still gobsmacked at the turn it has taken as I am about Alberta. Many people have, as the old saying goes “lost their goddamn minds.”

Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I’m no longer on Facebook or X so I have zero understanding about why so many Canadians are suddenly becoming separatists in this particular moment in time when the country that hosts these websites is ostensibly trying to break us. I’m going to start calling them partitionists. They are […]

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@mike_bowler @deborahh “this amp goes up to eleven”

Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@mpjgregoire le yikes.

Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@deborahh guilty until one proves their own innocence and collective punishment for perceived crimes. Such laws generally don’t go well in European history.

Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

@mpjgregoire there is also some vigorous debate within libertarian and free market economists about this with people like Zingales and Rajan arguing that pro-business is not necessarily pro-market and that wealth concentration enables monopolies and the suppression of free market dynamics […]

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

@mpjgregoire this paper among others talks about why 21st century wealth inequality is different. Inequality - specifically wealth concentration - is a strong predictor of democratic erosion. In this century it is the erosion of democratic institutions that make it different. And of course […]

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Makes sense. We seem to award it to people these days who don’t shy away from calling their work in the world “war.” . www.cbc.ca/news/world/nobel-prize-c…

Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Quick name something more stupid (or destructive) than the irrational fixations of insecure men. mstdn.social/@elfin/117379144921599…

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Attached: 1 video Androgoneous Spacecraft docking because neither the US or Russia wanted to be the "Female" docking part. I know a lot of stupid Space shit, but I was today years old when I learned this.

Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@mpjgregoire yeah but they were predicated on an idea that didn’t work - trickle down economics - and those reforms led to the single greatest concentration of wealth in history. The biggest threat to liberal democratic market based economies and societies is that inequality. I think the […]

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Bandcamp Friday It's Bandcamp Friday, the first Friday of every month, where 100% of sales on Bandcamp go to the artist.... www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/ba…

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Some good links Some good links on complexity Roope Kaaronen's: The Ecology of Design. A nice introduction to path dependancy, affordances and ecological psychology.... www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/so…

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@mpjgregoire This episode does talk about how the most prosperous time in American history, and also the most innovative was the 1950s and 1960s which was the last time the middle class actually grew. There was a 95% tax on the highest brackets then. Those who want to make America great again […]

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@mpjgregoire It's the conditions that allow for the actual existence of billionaires that are damaging to the public good. The episode talks about those that have inherited their wealth and as well as those that have acquired it. It doesn't demonize billionaires (even though it talks a bit about […]

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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

The episode in question: Ideas with Nahlah Ayed: The Billionaire Age Pt 4 | How democracy can beat back the oligarchs www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-i…