Reading Time: 3 minutes Each of us is worthy of dignity and respect. The more we embrace this truth about ourselves, the more we can see it in our neighbours.
Month: July 2019
What can – and should – be done about CBC
Reading Time: 3 minutes Get CBC out of the advertising business on all of its platforms. And make its content available to other media for free within Canada
‘This is Mongolian rehab:’ Father and son go to extremes for digital detox
Reading Time: 6 minutes ‘We have a chance to free ourselves from technology. It’s this wide-open space reflecting philosophically and spiritually. There are few fences and many roads’
Four steps to a better economic future
Reading Time: 3 minutes Rather than pursue a “future” based on past practices, governments should be working towards a future based on equity, well-being and sound environmental management
Wild Bunch showed True Grit in demythologizing the Old West
Reading Time: 3 minutes Fifty years ago, True Grit and The Wild Bunch opened in theatres. They were both westerns, but they were dramatically different in tone and intent
Come on, get happy: if a survey says we are, it must be true
Reading Time: 4 minutes Apparently, as you get older you get happier. Sclerotic, arthritic, calcified, deaf, blind, stupid and poor equals happy? Where do I sign up?
Hut-to-hut hike rewards adventurers with epic views
Reading Time: 6 minutes Comfy beds and incredible food await after a long, fulfilling day
Will Salim Mansur’s political alliance with Maxime Bernier matter?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The outspoken academic might have had a chance running for the Conservatives. When they dropped him and he joined the PPC, his chances diminished significantly
Visual intelligence is the next wave of digital security
Reading Time: 3 minutes Visual intelligence allows for face identification, incident recognition, behaviour monitoring, object identification and even face or activity prediction
Scheer’s food guide criticism may come back to bite him
Reading Time: 4 minutes Weaponizing Canada’s Food Guide to promote certain foods against other sources never results in a positive outcome.