Reading Time: 4 minutes We owe so much to Vasili Arkhipov, yet he’s not well known. He kept his cool while those around him were losing it during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Month: April 2018
Baseball’s season of creative destruction
Reading Time: 4 minutes With 12 teams racing to the bottom and bonafide stars waiting for contracts, this looks to be a season of fan despair. Will the Blue Jays join the club?
Digital present, paperless future in store for drivers
Reading Time: 3 minutes People are becoming more confident that private information can be used, received and shared electronically
Argentina: a land of seduction, rejection … and promise
Reading Time: 4 minutes Despite having a host of advantages, Argentina is something of an economic backwater. But a new beginning seems possible
A twisted path brings the Cambridge Analytica scandal home to Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes The links between Christopher Wylie, Victoria-based AggregateIQ and the Liberal Party of Canada must be probed
Reward working to improve income for the working poor
Reading Time: 3 minutes Help the working poor with targeted benefits like the CWB, not misguided minimum wage hikes
What medical tourists need to know to stay safe and healthy
Reading Time: 5 minutes Plus Canmore caving adventures, California dreaming, and flight deals for April and May
Off the beaten track in Hawaii
Reading Time: 6 minutes A week with the free spirits of Hana, replete with bevvies and grind, green eggs, and an elusive hunt for wild boar
Liberals’ “values test” a threat to freedom in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes The freedom of Canadian citizens to peacefully oppose anything, including abortion, is the very base on which all rights are founded
Bill C-59’s overreach allows security to trump freedom
Reading Time: 3 minutes Bill C-59, Canada’s new spy legislation, threatens the freedom of expression, the right to life, liberty and the security of the person