Reading Time: 3 minutes Tell them Atlantic Canada is building, and that they will be key players in the growth of Canada’s most beautiful region as it prepares for the 21st century
Month: May 2017
The Road to Camelot offers fresh insights into JFK mythology
Reading Time: 3 minutes 2017 is John F. Kennedy’s centenary year and a new book offers a deep dive into the details of his successful 1960 U.S. presidential campaign
Sinking the myth of dangerous West Coast oil tanker traffic
Reading Time: 4 minutes As a change in government looms in British Columbia puts the Kinder Morgan expansion project in jeopardy, we need to realize just how safe oil tankers are
Staking out the moral high ground in the energy debate
Reading Time: 3 minutes Othering can help understand energy discourse in Canada – and its tension and polarization – in a sector where natural sciences sensibilities ought to prevail
Truth will triumph – but not without our help
Reading Time: 3 minutes As we embrace the truth of humanity’s most horrific actions, hateful lies lose their power, we become enlightened and the path to a better world becomes clear
Brief encounters can change your perspective of others
Reading Time: 3 minutes Brief encounters, like taxi trips, help us make connections with those whose circumstances and experiences differ from ours, but with whom we share our humanity
Trudeau selling Canadians false bill of goods on infrastructure
Reading Time: 3 minutes Little of the federal government’s new spending over the next decade is earmarked for projects that will actually improve Canada’s core infrastructure
What’s new and exciting in the gaming world
Reading Time: 5 minutes A periodic roundup of game-related subjects to keep you abreast of developments and trends (and a few other things that amuse and intrigue me)
Free medicines for rich kids is a fair and efficient policy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Universality is no free ride for the rich. If everyone pays, say, a one per cent income tax for universal drug coverage, the millionaire will pay much more
Saving the euro: Why Germany must bring back the mark
Reading Time: 5 minutes Germany must exit the increasingly dysfunctional eurozone to allow its other members to benefit from a cheaper euro