He is a senior fellow at the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University and an active member of the Pugwash movement. He has edited two collections of essays on Canadian politics, The Way Ahead for Canada and Canada's Third Option. He is the author of two books on communications cum linguistics: The Alphabet Effect and The Fifth Language. He is currently working on two books, one on knowledge management and the other on the origin of speech from the perspective of chaos theory, cognitive science and evolutionary biology.