Reading Time: 3 minutes Stop feeding your mind worthless thoughts and negative emotions. If you want peace, restrain your mind and strengthen your will power
Month: October 2017
How Donald Trump will finally lose his steadfast supporters
Reading Time: 4 minutes Opposition research showing a bizarre scene in a Russian hotel room will ultimately be released and it will be the president’s undoing
Is Jason Kenney Alberta’s premier-in-waiting?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The new United Conservative Party leader is laser-focused on defeating the Alberta NDP and it would be unwise to bet against him
Alberta’s sex-ed showdown
Reading Time: 3 minutes In a tolerant, civil society, we embrace a diversity of beliefs. But we need to take care that society’s core values aren’t undermined by religious beliefs
Three years after Robin Williams death, reporting on suicide still contentious
Reading Time: 5 minutes By choosing not to report on mental health or suicide, journalists only perpetuate the stigma for those living with a mental illness
Killing the goose that laid the golden egg
Reading Time: 4 minutes Increasingly harsh and ever-shifting resource-related government policies are killing jobs and making Canadians poorer
Stick to the facts to protect old-growth forests in B.C.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Debate on Vancouver Island’s old growth forests must be based on facts, not just conjuring up feelings of nostalgia, awe and respect
Facts or flights of fancy: how Trump tackles problems
Reading Time: 4 minutes Could it be that, at 71, Trump draws on an innate ability to reason that works in the absence of any understanding of the facts?
Canadian business growth stymied by governments
Reading Time: 3 minutes Red tape, rising taxes, tax reform, increasing minimum wages and other policy initiatives all smother business investment
The lasting – and troubling – legacy of Martin Luther
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s now 500 years since Luther threw down the gauntlet, taking on the power of the papacy in an era predating the separation of church and state