Reading Time: 3 minutes An electronic empowerment has been unleashed by the information technology and communications revolution
Month: May 2018
Gambling and pro sports: a marriage made in heaven
Reading Time: 4 minutes But with so much more money to be made, the potential for mischief seems great. How do we control that mischief?
Justice reform can’t just be knee-jerk
Reading Time: 3 minutes Eliminating peremptory challenges during jury selection and restricting preliminary inquiries won’t necessarily improve the system
Are the Golden Knights the greatest sports story of all time?
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s a mug’s game to select one great sports moment over another. But that doesn’t make Vegas’s success any less remarkable
‘Bad things happen to good people’
Reading Time: 4 minutes Final installment in five-part series: As people dig out from Alberta’s worst recession in three decades, Troy Media talks to everyday Albertans who are working to become debt free. The series features the stories of four people whose lives were ruled by debt because of divorce, illness, loss of a loved one or fraud. Growing bills were ruining their lives until they decided to take control of their financial future.
The meaning is sometimes lost in translation
Reading Time: 4 minutes The tradition of mangling English in restaurants, hotels and public places continues
Start preparing for the economic impact of Artificial Intelligence
Reading Time: 8 minutes With the hype reaching fever pitch, the key question comes down to how to fund tax revenue shortfalls and higher unemployment costs
The pipeline to the future doesn’t carry the jobs of the past
Reading Time: 3 minutes The ruckus over the Kinder Morgan project is a good reminder that the economic conditions we once enjoyed are on the way out
Movie musical Grease turns 40 this summer
Reading Time: 3 minutes Forty years after its release, the movie poses a conundrum for those disposed to view everything through an ideologically-tinted lens
NFL puts greed ahead of freedom of expression, again
Reading Time: 4 minutes NFL owners are rich, not necessarily smart. Forcing players to stand at attention during the national anthem undermines basic rights