Reading Time: 3 minutes For anyone wondering why physician-hastened death makes disabled people feel vulnerable, wonder no more
Month: May 2015
The provinces are lousy at controlling spending
Reading Time: 3 minutes The provinces have been demonstrably poor at controlling spending within justifiable parameters
A vision for First Nations reconciliation
Reading Time: 3 minutes Healing the wounded relationships that exist between indigenous peoples and the broad population of Canada
Monsanto’s ambitions face a public wall
Reading Time: 3 minutes The company has learned that trust actually has more currency than science
Lot of room for improvement in the Canadian health system
Reading Time: 3 minutes Building on the successes of practices already established in some regions of Canada should set the agenda for the future
Global farmland grab should be resisted
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada ought to play an increased role in providing guiding policy principles to impoverished nations to prevent it from happening
Two election upsets loaded with lessons
Reading Time: 3 minutes What columnist Pat Murphy learned from the PC defeat in Alberta and the Conservative victory in Britain
Safer rail transport still can’t compete with pipeline safety
Reading Time: 3 minutes Crude oil exports by rail have increased from 42,000 bbl a year in 2010 to almost 42 million bbl per year in 2014
In the Internet age, we don’t need TV debates
Reading Time: 3 minutes Whatever we might have lost by the Conservatives’ withdrawal, we stand to gain several times over in the wild, crazy and uncontrollable online world
Federal budget will advance First Nations communities
Reading Time: 3 minutes The budget delivers on some of First Nations’ most deeply held political and economic desires