Reading Time: 3 minutes Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals are finished. NDP Leader Andrea Horwath proposes a host of nightmarish left-wing changes
Month: June 2018
Trans Mountain pipeline will benefit Canada – at a very high price
Reading Time: 3 minutes Nationalizing the project is far from ideal. It’s an admission that Canada’s regulatory approval process is profoundly broken
Lake O’Hara Lodge: a timeless Rocky Mountain beauty
Reading Time: 5 minutes At every turn, a mind-blowing vista opened before us. But always – far below – lay Lake O’Hara, an artist’s palette in aquamarine
Two visions of mining for Manitoba
Reading Time: 3 minutes A path that includes meaningful consultation with Indigenous groups is destined to move development forward
Professional sports turning grieving into a PR scam
Reading Time: 3 minutes The great divide in sports is spurred by phoney patriotism and over-commercialization
The danger of putting too much trust in doctors
Reading Time: 3 minutes The medical profession lectures the public on health. Some believe it’s time for the public to lecture the medical profession on ethics
Powell River celebrates its progressive roots
Reading Time: 4 minutes Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring to be performed at PRISMA. In 1913, the ballet caused a riot in Paris and unleashed a mad torrent of modernity on the members of Parisienne high society
The war on plastics is as dangerous as it is misguided
Reading Time: 6 minutes Earth Day Network’s anti-plastic campaign ignores how integral plastic is to a progressive, safe and healthy world
The hollow gestures of an overreaching government
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Trudeau government’s aspirations to mandate equality, diversity and inclusion must be open for discussion in society, not just blindly accepted
Political turmoil in Italy spreads to global financial markets
Reading Time: 3 minutes As Europeans begin to head south for the summer, the market seems to be following them