Reading Time: 4 minutes Nicotine is both the problem and the solution to smoking and the epidemic can be stopped by using non-combustion alternatives
Month: August 2017
Finding salvation in the ashes of the daily newspaper business
Reading Time: 3 minutes The CBC can be the link to broader success, if it goes ad-free and makes its news content freely available to other news platforms
How a traditional exam system fails all students
Reading Time: 3 minutes A good educator recognizes that an intelligent student doesn’t necessarily fit into a conventional box
Taxing professionals no way to grow the economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Canadian government has eliminated tax credits without using the resulting revenues to cut rates more broadly
How political branding crippled Ezra Levant’s website
Reading Time: 3 minutes Mainstream conservatives avoid any connection with the alt-right label, yet The Rebel has been fascinated with this fringe collective
Canada’s enduring legacy of power, politics and racism
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canadians, of all political stripes, are not any less racist than their American neighbours
Mainstream media is full of fake news
Reading Time: 4 minutes Few realize the extent to which the financial establishment uses fake news to fool the public
Don’t just blame speculators for soaring housing prices
Reading Time: 3 minutes Falling interest rates are an often-overlooked contributor to rising home prices in Canada’s most desirable markets
Putting a price on the movement of people and goods
Reading Time: 3 minutes Introducing tolls on roads and bridges to help pay for transportation upgrades is an equitable solution to a vexing urban problem
Statues tell a story that people need to hear
Reading Time: 3 minutes You could fill volumes with the uncomfortable statements uttered in the past by people whom we now revere, from Abraham Lincoln to Mahatma Gandhi