Reading Time: 3 minutes Food banks remain a symptom of bigger problems – poverty and social inequality. We need systemic change to fix those bigger problems
Month: January 2018
Emails destroyed, justice denied?
Reading Time: 3 minutes What part of ‘Don’t delete government emails’ did these Ontario cops not understand?
Landlord-tenant conflicts often come down to respect
Reading Time: 3 minutes Most conflicts would simply evaporate if everyone took the time to adhere to some simple and fundamental courtesies
Another province calls Trudeau’s carbon tax bluff
Reading Time: 3 minutes Wearing thin is the insistence from carbon tax proponents across Canada that there was no other way this could have played out
Free speech: Be open to debate or become irrelevant
Reading Time: 3 minutes The danger arises when we become too attached to ideas and are no longer open to healthy discourse
The perils of bottom-line blood collection
Reading Time: 3 minutes Media expose raises some troubling questions about Health Canada’s relationship with a for-profit blood collection company
Heroes and villains: how history picks the winners
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Second World War movie Darkest Hour raises questions about perspective and reality
Taxing meat is an unpalatable proposition
Reading Time: 4 minutes Arguing that meat is the new tobacco is sensationalist nonsense, since tobacco is not essential to life and food is. Let the market evolve
Full meal deal: sports world serves up plenty of intrigue
Reading Time: 4 minutes What does 2018 hold? Forgettable Olympics, NHL incompetence (followed by NFL incompetence), Blue Jay uncertainty and golf mysteries, for a start
We’ve turned into a nation of winter wimps
Reading Time: 3 minutes Even our junior men’s hockey team has fallen prey, blowing its outdoor game against the U.S. because we’ve forgotten how to play in a snowstorm