Reading Time: 3 minutes Consumers increasingly want fresh, unprocessed food. The middle of the store now sees less traffic and that’s clearly affecting sales for most grocery products
Month: May 2017
China offers a lesson on financing infrastructure
Reading Time: 3 minutes China built 20,000 km of high-speed rail infrastructure without raising taxes or becoming indebted to international bond markets
No reason why an activist can’t be a columnist
Reading Time: 3 minutes Yes, it’s possible to be a columnist and activist. So why couldn’t the Toronto Star countenance Desmond Cole and his stand on police carding?
A tempest in a cultural appropriation teapot
Reading Time: 4 minutes For the CBC and others, a joke about cultural appropriation is more important than, you know, things like real racism
What’s the big deal about volunteer work?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our society is filled with organizations that need volunteer help. And it is both fun and ennobling working for the common good
Why NAFTA and Canada are important to the U.S. economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes An open letter to President Trump as the U.S. prepares to renegotiate NAFTA
Generation X the lost food generation
Reading Time: 3 minutes Generation Xers grew up in an era when food was functional and boring. As a result, many don’t cook and have little interest in the culinary culture
Two women defined by and celebrated for a single book each
Reading Time: 4 minutes Margaret Mitchell and Harper Lee tackled the peculiarities and flaws of the American South of different eras but still plumbed some universal truths
Canada’s investment recession drags on
Reading Time: 3 minutes The collapse of global oil prices, coupled with weak prices in other commodity markets, a key factor behind Canada’s investment slump
Election results could spell trouble for B.C.’s tax competitiveness
Reading Time: 3 minutes B.C.’s political leaders should prioritize its citizens’ economic well-being over party politics