Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s not particularly fair for social media to condemn Tootoo before any evidence he did something wrong
Month: June 2016
Trump’s vision of economic prosperity so last century
Reading Time: 3 minutes A dangerous step back in time for the world’s most powerful nation
Muhammad Ali loved those friendly Canadians
Reading Time: 3 minutes “I’ve never been treated so nice in my life (as in Canada)”
Beef irradiation is long overdue in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes More than 40 years of research on food irradiation shows that the process is trustworthy
Expanding CPP won’t help most financially vulnerable seniors
Reading Time: 3 minutes Seniors living alone are much more likely to be in low income than other seniors and won’t be helped by any CPP expansion
What Rocky Harbour could teach government
Reading Time: 3 minutes When governments fail to act in conserving resource royalties, families step in to recycle the boom-times cash
Alberta’s carbon tax a $10 billion green grab
Reading Time: 3 minutes Alberta’s new climate plan is a $6 billion tax grab that will be used to fund a giant green energy spending spree over five years
Independent schools are good for society
Reading Time: 4 minutes Options in education are healthy for children and give society exceptional value for the government money spent
Standardized tests aren’t perfect but they are useful
Reading Time: 4 minutes Standardized testing is one of the very few ways parents can assess the quality of public education provided to their children
Health-care spending increases point to unsustainable future
Reading Time: 3 minutes Provincial governments need to start re-examining how their health-care dollars are spent or implementing meaningful health-care reform now