Reading Time: 3 minutes If we are going to invest more money, we should place it where we can improve people’s health, recognizing that more service is not always better
Month: June 2017
Governor General apologizes for telling the truth
Reading Time: 3 minutes David Johnston told the unvarnished truth: all Canadians, including aboriginals, are immigrants from somewhere. No apology necessary
Coming clean about the crimes of colonialism, at home and abroad
Reading Time: 3 minutes When we are truly honest with ourselves, we can find ways to heal society. This is the lesson we must live and share on a global level
A summer reading list to challenge your perspectives
Reading Time: 3 minutes These authors examine death and dying, love and romance, the immigrant experience and cultural chasms, and the heavy burdens family members must often carry
Mourning an Alberta publishing icon
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ruth Kelly understood she had a unique responsibility: to cheerlead and promote but also to criticize constructively and objectively
Meet Ireland’s new power pair
Reading Time: 3 minutes Polar opposites, Leo Varadkar and Arlene Foster together must help the Irish people navigate political and economic minefields
Amazon’s appetite for disruption takes a bite out of the food industry
Reading Time: 4 minutes Given its ability to fuse efficient distribution and strategic market insight, the e-commerce giant could well become the leading food retailer in North America
How will B.C.’s NDP pay for deal with Greens?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Will a Horgan-led government keep the NDP’s election promise to balance the budget and, if so, how in the face of Green-driven spending plans?
Pitchers’ careers balance on a thin ligament
Reading Time: 4 minutes Baseball teams and their medical people have reduced workloads, refined mechanics and changed diets to get the most out of their pitchers. To no avail
The great flaming mass of Ontario Liberal incompetence
Reading Time: 3 minutes The stench of corruption and incompetence will continue to hang over the Wynne government in the run up to the next provincial election