Reading Time: 4 minutes The fact that Donald Trump is even with Hillary Clinton in numerous polls is an unmitigated disaster
Month: September 2016
The reality of independent school funding in British Columbia
Reading Time: 3 minutes Reducing or eliminating independent school funding would reduce parental choice, educational diversity, and may lower per student spending in public schools
Mosul’s fate can only be devastatingly tragic
Reading Time: 3 minutes The liberation of Mosul is going to be the bloodiest, most bitterly-fought urban campaign since Stalingrad
A ‘developer grade’ presidential candidate
Reading Time: 4 minutes Donald Trump, with his developer grade thought processes, his preference for ideological veneers, and his absence of depth, is about to crash
Hunter Tootoo came clean about sin in a very public way
Reading Time: 3 minutes The story of MP Hunter Tootoo is about one man’s struggle to understand himself and to come to grips with, and then transcend, a troubled past
Healing the scars left by residential schools
Reading Time: 3 minutes By participating in Orange Shirt Day, we honour the victims of Canada’s residential school system and move toward reconciliation
Beer-barrel economics: what goes down stimulates the economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes A cut in beer prices in New Brunswick led to an increase in beer sales to Nova Scotia and Quebec residents
Yes Virginia, values do matter
Reading Time: 3 minutes To live in Canada successfully, the beliefs immigrants bring with them must be secondary to the values enshrined in the Canadian Constitution
Canada needs to put its education spending to better use
Reading Time: 3 minutes A disproportionate amount of money is spent on education, but our results are mixed and we are falling behind many other countries
Misinformation fuels opposition to health-care reform in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes The reality is that for-profit provision of health-care services is commonplace among industrialized countries with universal health care