Reading Time: 4 minutes From Alexandre Bissonnette to Stephen Paddock to Nickolas Cruz to many more, the connections are chilling
Month: April 2018
Drawing on rich traditions to nourish our children
Reading Time: 4 minutes Poor nutrition in Indigenous children, starting with colonization, through residential schools, continues today. It must stop
The modern quest for equality sacrifices freedom
Reading Time: 4 minutes In societies where economic equality exists, individual liberty is highly restricted. Communism is the perfect example
Making sense of violent attacks
Reading Time: 3 minutes In the aftermath of this week’s tragedy in Toronto, how do we come to the grips with such violence? And who do we blame?
The stories of four Albertans working to slay their debt demons
Reading Time: 4 minutes First of a five-part series: As people slowly begin to dig out from Alberta’s worst recession in three decades, Troy Media talks to everyday Albertans who are working to become debt free
How do we play the mating game in the #MeToo era?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The workplace was once an acceptable place to find romance. Now it’s a place to court misunderstanding and perhaps disaster
Nova Scotia increases health system complexity at the cost of actual care
Reading Time: 3 minutes Strangely, the health authority seems to believe that increasing the administrative burden on clinicians won’t decrease care
Lifting the veil off the role of women in health care
Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s a significant lack of gender parity in health leadership positions. Pay equity and workplace safety must also be addressed
Fracking moratoriums hold back struggling provinces
Reading Time: 3 minutes Across Canada, misguided populism is creating bad public policy, preventing the spreading of economic benefits to all citizens
Call for papal apology an affront to religious liberty
Reading Time: 3 minutes MPs telling bishops what to do is a monstrous misunderstanding of the relationship between political power and civil society