Reading Time: 3 minutes His departure from McGill was a terrible moment for the talented columnist and editor – and a disgrace to one of Canada’s oldest institutions of higher learning
Month: March 2017
It’s time the oil industry got smart about its messaging
Reading Time: 3 minutes Smart agriculture movement offers the perfect template: it’s about building trust with consumers by telling stories about good – and improving – practices
Canada needs a national policy to right our economic ship
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our trust-the-status-quo mindset is part of the problem. And our commitment to globalization must come with a Canada-first policy
Federal budget is short on innovation or social value
Reading Time: 3 minutes It assumes government is the agent of change and social stability for the middle class – the same philosophy that’s wrongly guided most spending for decades
Alberta’s 2017 budget a bad case of déjà vu
Reading Time: 3 minutes Deciding to push ahead with further spending increases and hope for revenues to fill the budget gap represents a failure to learn from the past
Attawapiskat First Nation refuses to address its problems
Reading Time: 3 minutes De Beers decided to shelve plans to expand its mine because of the difficulty of dealing with continual protests from community members
To understand Trump read Ayn Rand
Reading Time: 3 minutes When the only metric that counts is money, what’s the value of any aspect of civil society, helping others, being kind or empathetic?
Can Russia and the United States be allies?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Expanded co-operation with the West and an increase in Russia’s role in combatting jihadism would come at a steep price — for both sides
Canada should stop living in the health-care funding past
Reading Time: 3 minutes Governments should work together to fund pharmacare, dental care and rehabilitation as part of an improved funding model
Putting a higher value on higher learning
Reading Time: 3 minutes Graduate schools must encourage students to evaluate their competencies and appreciate how those skills will help them pursue non-academic careers