Reading Time: 3 minutes To make wedding wishes come true and wedding vows a reality for the long haul, spouses need to overcome the very human tendency to focus on the self
Month: November 2017
How consumers can leverage change, even in the face of tragedy
Reading Time: 3 minutes The extraction and black-market sale of gold, tantalum, tin and tungsten (used in our cellphones and other electronics) fuel the war in the DRC
It’s reefer madness to think marijuana will pay the bills
Reading Time: 3 minutes Marijuana legalization opponents say long-term health and social costs will be significant, through things like car accidents, and brain and lung damage
Was Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe always a thug?
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s hard to know for sure, but one can safely say that, once ensconced in power, thuggery came easily to him
Protect the integrity of the Internet, protect free thought
Reading Time: 3 minutes The industrial and cultural disruption initiated by the web was always going to result in some chaos. But now the barbarians may be the gatekeepers
Uniting Alberta’s scattered political centre
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Alberta Party could offer an alternative for the majority of voters who identify as progressives, but it will take a clarity of vision
Canada’s health-care system fails to account for senior migration
Reading Time: 3 minutes Migrating seniors pay most of their lifetime taxes in one province and then consume most of their health care in another
Making peace with past mistakes
Reading Time: 3 minutes The more we dwell on a past mistake, the more we identify with it. We have become that mistake or bad choice
If NAFTA collapses, could Cuba help fill the void for Canada?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada and Cuba already have an established trade relationship, as do Mexico and Cuba, and Canada and Mexico
Amazon and the slow death of the traditional grocery store
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Amazon effect has Loblaws and others reimagining their businesses. Consumers will have greater choice and convenience – from their homes