Reading Time: 3 minutes According to one report, 635,000 Canadian jobs, $85 billion in GDP and $20 billion in government revenue could be at risk
Month: October 2018
Tearing down statues, losing perspective on history’s heroes
Reading Time: 3 minutes John A. Macdonald and Louis Riel had serious flaws. So did Nellie McClung. But nothing is served by repudiating their good work
Rhodes cultural policy is a template for Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Greeks believe that supporting the arts and culture is not a luxury but an investment in human progress
Government debt will worsen the next recession
Reading Time: 3 minutes Governments around the world will go into the next recession with fewer economic management tools at their disposal
Emotions and politics: the lessons of the Kavanaugh hearings
Reading Time: 4 minutes How are emotions mobilized in politics, for whom and by whom? And what normalizes the expression of these emotions?
Wake up Canada, you have a business investment crisis
Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s been no growth in years in the corporate assets that help make companies more efficient and profitable
There’s never enough for Manitoba’s expensive public schools
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s time the provincial government took over taxation decisions, merged school divisions and put a lid on spending
Some memory loss as we get older is normal
Reading Time: 3 minutes But it can also be a symptom of treatable disorders such as depression, anxiety or substance abuse
Ontario takes the initiative tackling terrorists
Reading Time: 3 minutes A simple – and seemingly obvious – provincial decision that should have been made by the Trudeau government long ago
Legend, reality and the Outlaw King
Reading Time: 3 minutes The full story of Robert the Bruce’s ascendancy to the Scottish crown is more intricate and certainly less romantic