The future is not what it used to be

This page exists because many people can feel a shift — in education, in work, in politics, in institutions — and are looking for a place to engage with it honestly.

The focus here is clarity, not certainty.

This is a space for permission.

Permission to name what we’re sensing,
to speak openly about change,
and to think forward together.

This isn’t a campaign, a platform, or a promise to win.

It’s a public marker, set at a moment when long-standing assumptions about our institutions, careers, and lives are being reconsidered in real time.

• Education no longer guarantees predictable outcomes

• Career ladders are broken, and are non-linear
   
• Asset accumulation is losing its role as life’s primary organizing principle
   
• Technology has outpaced governance
   
• Institutional promises don’t map to lived reality
   
• Party loyalty no longer guarantees coherence

This isn’t a slogan.
It’s a diagnosis.
And diagnosis comes before solutions. 

I’m not running on answers.
I’m running on permission.

Permission to notice change as it’s happening.
To acknowledge what no longer fits.
And to listen carefully, without rushing to resolution.
 

This is an exploratory project —a listening surface rather than a finished argument, and an experiment in honesty rather than certainty.
 

If you live, study, work, or think in this moment of transition — especially in University–Rosedale — I want to hear how you see the future unfolding.

Not as a pitch.
Not as a campaign ask.

But as a contribution to a conversation already happening everywhere — and too rarely in public.