Recently, this author had a meeting at the Can-Am Indian Friendship Centre in Windsor, ON. As part of this meeting, the Centre directed the author to the “National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Final Report” and, more specifically, the “Calls for Justice” contained therein. The Final…

Recently, through my membership within the Windsor Masonic Temple, I have been the Committee Chair for the Windsor Masonic Temple’s “For The Next 100 Years” Project. The purpose of this project is to advocate for and find funding that will allow the Windsor Masonic Temple to preserve, maintain, and upgrade…

The Border Masonic Temple Association (BMTA) administers the Windsor Masonic Temple. The Windsor Masonic Temple’s “For the Next 100 Years” project is a case-study which offers broadly applicable insights, principles, and real solutions, applicable within communities or to heritage (or Masonic) buildings, to the challenges of balancing the competing priorities…

According to the Wall Street Journal, “[p]atriotism, religious faith, having children, and other priorities that helped define the national character for generations are receding in importance to Americans, a new Wall Street Journal-NORC poll finds.” Question: what else has receded during the same time period as covered within the poll…

Introduction Recent events within the financial world (particularly within the United States…particularly within Silicon Valley) led Square & Compass to consider a question which (based on our experience) too few Masonic Lodges and Buildings ask: Are Masonic Lodges and Buildings Financially Secure? There is no one answer to the above…

Influential Podcaster (he has 2.75 million YouTube Subscribers) and Research Scientist Lex Fridman recently posted on his YouTube “Community” Page the following: “I’ll be traveling a bunch soon. Along the way, I’d like to meet interesting people from all walks of life, and chat over coffee. So, if you want…

To be a Freemason is to be a life-long learner…especially in the areas of the Liberal Arts and Sciences…ESPECIALLY in the area of geometry. Space exploration, especially as it relates to our modern understanding of the universe, is inexorably connected to ideas of and related to geometry (along with other…

Square & Compass Promotions has signed the Sustainable Tourism 2030 Pledge, to demonstrate our commitment to improving our sustainability score between now and 2030 (the UN World Tourism Organization defines sustainable tourism as “tourism that takes full account of its current and future economic, social and environmental impacts, addressing the…

On February 6th, 2023 Turkey and Syria were hit with a earthquake measuring 7.7 and resulting in homes being lost, property destroyed, countless injured, and a death-toll (as the date of this story) surpassing 46,000. In many ways, large and small, Freemasons have stepped-up to assist those in Turkey and…