Reading Time: 3 minutes Taking wealth from one group and giving it to others just creates misery and strife
Month: March 2019
The cost of a smile – and the big payoff for your business
Reading Time: 3 minutes People are more likely to buy from those who are smiling. And happy staff solve problems easier than sombre workers
Cannabis legalization missteps leave little faith for solving opioid crisis
Reading Time: 3 minutes The delays, mistakes and outright incompetence related to cannabis legalization suggest we won’t be able to manage opioid use
We need to confront the history of slavery in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s very easy for Canadians to look self-righteously at Americans and claim the higher moral ground. But it’s not necessarily true
Queen Victoria’s foreign policy man was larger than life
Reading Time: 4 minutes Were Lord Palmerston alive today, he’d most certainly be a Brexiteer
We shouldn’t trust global-warming activists
Reading Time: 3 minutes We can’t adopt alternative energy sources until they’re viable. So what’s the delay in the necessary testing and research?
Kawhi Leonard’s slow, painful march out of Toronto
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s a good bet the transcendent NBA star will leave the Raptors after this season. In the meantime, he takes far too many nights off
Universal health care in Canada? Not really
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you move from B.C. to Newfoundland, for example, you’re likely to be denied coverage
Canada is losing its grip on valuable trade with China
Reading Time: 4 minutes Recent missteps suggest we’re run by diplomatic amateurs, casting a shadow on trade. And now a deadly swine disease has hit China
We’re winning the war on poverty
Reading Time: 4 minutes The proportion of households below the LICO has been falling for two decades and is now at its lowest level ever at 7.8 per cent