Reading Time: 4 minutes Aboriginal Canadians must accept that remaining in grievance mode and relying on the government is preventing them from moving forward
Month: August 2017
A museum opts for happy hippy love bugs instead of honesty
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts exhibit mythologizes the 1960s by ignoring the dark ugliness masked by all those drug-addled smiles
Crossroads: the growing Republican divide
Reading Time: 3 minutes Rather than a positive endorsement of their world view, Republican electoral success comes down to a simple rejection of the Democrats
Robots in the workforce: resistance is futile, so we must adapt
Reading Time: 3 minutes Nearly half of the Canadian labour force is at high risk of automation within the next two decades, so how should we prepare?
Love is the most powerful force on Earth
Reading Time: 3 minutes It wasn’t violence that freed India from Great Britain. It was love. Weapons didn’t end the Cold War. It was people who chose to love rather than to hate
Minimum wage prices low-skilled workers out of a job
Reading Time: 3 minutes Governments should abolish the fruitless minimum wage if they want to do right by young and low-income persons
Ontario government’s focus on foreign buyers misses the point
Reading Time: 3 minutes Focus instead on reducing the time it takes to obtain a building permit and the per-unit costs to comply with regulations, which amounts to almost $50,000
Changing behaviour is only one aim of carbon taxes
Reading Time: 3 minutes A carbon tax used to subsidize alternate energy sources will accelerate the transition away from fossil fuel dependence
A tip of the (baseball) cap to Peter Stoffer
Reading Time: 3 minutes The former MP filled the walls of his Parliament Hill office with 8,000 baseball caps, 9,000 pins and 5,000 buttons he’d collected over 18 years
Punk queen Exene Cervenka embraces Trump
Reading Time: 4 minutes Exene Cervenka of X embodies a growing constituency in the United States which believes nothing emanating from government or the media is true