Reading Time: 3 minutes The stakes in collective bargaining sessions remain high. Alberta faces a $10.3-billion budget deficit with more big deficits planned
Month: May 2017
It’s time for a cross-country, face-to-face energy conversation
Reading Time: 3 minutes The petroleum sector needs to move in synch with changing societal expectations. And Canadians will be surprised to discover how far the sector has progressed
Video game Beat Cop soon wears out its welcome
Reading Time: 5 minutes This throwback pixel art game honours 1980s cop shows, but it tends to tedium – with some unsettling racist and homophobic elements thrown in
Bad to the bone: why the NHL can’t clean up its act
Reading Time: 4 minutes The league just can’t help itself. Despite pledges to free up the game, we endure reform and recidivism on flow of play, minor fouls, major fouls, video reviews
Why Canada needs universal pharmacare and how to make it happen
Reading Time: 3 minutes Prescription drug coverage for all would save lives, save billions of dollars, help businesses – and make our incomplete health system whole
Lower Mainland municipalities create roadblocks to new housing
Reading Time: 3 minutes Homebuilders were asked how long they wait for permit approvals, how much it costs, how often rezoning is required and the scope of local opposition
Putin’s risky Syrian gambit is not serving him well
Reading Time: 7 minutes While former KGB agent Vladimir Putin no longer reports to anyone, that doesn’t mean a demotion might not be in his future
Curating kindness: the acts of humanity that inspire daily life
Reading Time: 4 minutes Amidst the turmoil, simple acts of kindness: feeding a homeless man, art classes for apartment kids, and Wood Camp with Steve
Mystery still swirls around Hitler’s death 72 years later
Reading Time: 10 minutes Barring the release of some smoking gun document buried in intelligence archives, the question of whether Hitler died in his bunker will probably never be settled
The power of Fatima and Catholic mysticism
Reading Time: 3 minutes One hundred years after three Portuguese children reported seeing an apparition while they tended a flock of sheep, the story of Our Lady of Fatima endures