Reading Time: 3 minutes Having a garden has enriched our diet, our appreciation of the natural world, and our relationships with family, neighbours and guests
Month: August 2017
Canada should accept increased competition under new NAFTA
Reading Time: 3 minutes The U.S. administration is actually acting as a champion of the Canadian consumer
Gasoline price-fixing harms Atlantic Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes Controls were intended to ease consumer anger over rare but large price fluctuations. But government isn’t meant to be an anger management therapist
Why Ontario can’t seem to ease its debt burden
Reading Time: 3 minutes Government debt has grown much faster than the economy in recent years, and little change is expected over the next several years
The age of civility has entered a dangerous time
Reading Time: 4 minutes If you believe our hard-won social norms are worth keeping, you have to become truly active to stop this cancer before it metastasizes
Ontarians pay a high price for power system mess
Reading Time: 3 minutes Years of government mismanagement of the power sector must be corrected or families will continue to suffer
Andrew Scheer must put First Nations issues back on the agenda
Reading Time: 3 minutes The new Conservative leader can do much to advance indigenous issues and the national agenda – and get his party elected in 2019
Finding grace and hope in the worst of tragedies
Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s tremendous beauty in compassion. When we seek to comfort others, we also strive to make the situation better
Politics is filled with conflicting opinions, and that’s healthy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sure, conflict is uncomfortable. But if we’re not exposed to it occasionally, how will we ever get more comfortable being uncomfortable?
A measured, rational response to climate change is possible
Reading Time: 3 minutes The risks can be managed using conventional policies, engineering, and research and development – and without all the hysteria