Reading Time: 3 minutes Liberals on the defensive after the Prime Minister sidesteps a question about Canada’s mission against ISIL to talk about ‘quantum computing’ instead
Month: April 2016
There is no silver bullet to economic prosperity
Reading Time: 3 minutes No single project or government program will miraculously rescue Atlantic Canada from its depressed economy
The NDP takes a dangerous Leap to the left
Reading Time: 3 minutes The romance of the Leap Manifesto fails in the face of reality: hard-line socialism defies democracy
Restaurant industry struggles to find staff
Reading Time: 3 minutes Even though fewer people are preparing their own meals, the restaurant industry is struggling to find staff and pay them more
Let’s halt the killer fentanyl tide
Reading Time: 3 minutes Unless Canadians start to pay attention, there could be a wave of fentanyl deaths washing across the country
Putting to rest a Fenian rebellion fantasy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Folklore and reality clash when it comes to examining North America’s role in quelling an Irish rebellion
Disruption is everywhere and it appears we crave it
Reading Time: 3 minutes Dying business models, political party fragmentation, climate change refugees, country shopping: welcome to the new age of disruption
Long health-care wait times costing Canadians time and money
Reading Time: 3 minutes Long wait times (and their consequences) shouldn’t be the price we pay for a universal health-care
Rachel Notley wise to close off the LEAP chatter
Reading Time: 3 minutes The LEAP Manifesto is a paean to an imaginary world that is, in a counterintuitive way, dismally pessimistic
Putting proportional representation to work
Reading Time: 3 minutes The implications of introducing proportional representation to Canada