Reading Time: 3 minutes There is only a diverse and beautiful ‘we:’ we can be confident we’ll find the answers we’re looking for as we move forward together
Month: November 2017
Communism’s pernicious influence persists despite the best evidence
Reading Time: 3 minutes On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, some romantics still embrace the fallacies of communism and its sister socialism
Canada unprepared for an aging population
Reading Time: 3 minutes The adverse consequences of an aging population – deficits, debt and slowing economic growth – can be mitigated with prompt action
How alcohol is killing Aboriginal Canadians
Reading Time: 6 minutes In his important book Firewater, Harold Johnson talks about the enormous problem of alcohol abuse that plagues so many Indigenous communities
Ontario’s wrong-headed energy policy burns 75,000 jobs
Reading Time: 3 minutes The province’s manufacturing sector may find itself even less competitive soon due to developments in the United States
Keystone XL approval errs on side of safety
Reading Time: 3 minutes One spill is too many but pipelines are much safer than rail for transporting oil
Fossil fuels remain key to energy future, according to report
Reading Time: 4 minutes The U.S. is eager to grab new business, which underscores the urgent need for Canada to secure access to offshore markets for our oil and gas
Indigenous tourism is relatively untouched but the potential is vast
Reading Time: 3 minutes First Nations should take an inventory of their cultural, spiritual and ecological assets, then develop ways to present them to tourists
People’s Guarantee puts Brown on the road to election success
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Ontario Progressive Conservative leader has released a map for his election campaign that dovetails with broadly-held principles
Perhaps the worst cabinet minister in the history of Confederation
Reading Time: 4 minutes Just when you thought Melanie Joly couldn’t mess up anything else, she blew $5.6 million on a temporary rink on Parliament Hill