Reading Time: 4 minutes Natural gas is the cleanest fossil fuel, and the ideal way to power humanity through the decades-long transition from coal and oil to alternative energy sources
Month: July 2019
Jenn Smith’s campus cancellations put free speech at peril
Reading Time: 3 minutes All institutions of higher learning should make a robust free exchange of ideas a key part of their learning environment
How a journey through hardship can inspire your life
Reading Time: 3 minutes The key is not to run away from life but to embrace every challenge, to find its meaning and the lesson it offers
Are you an argumentative communicator?
Reading Time: 3 minutes How to make your point without alienating, angering or humiliating your audience
Canadian business investment still sluggish: Fraser Institute
Reading Time: 3 minutes Drop in business investment from 2014 to 2017 is the most severe in at least 30 years
Jack Dempsey and the birth of the Roaring ’20s
Reading Time: 4 minutes The boxer was a prime example of the ascension of celebrity, perhaps rivalled only by baseball’s Babe Ruth
Social media losing its lustre, and its cachet
Reading Time: 3 minutes Why have millions of users decided to turn their backs on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram?
De Adder cartoon controversy is no laughing matter
Reading Time: 4 minutes Michael de Adder’s contract termination by Brunswick News makes one wonder how far free speech and free thought truly go on a modern newspaper page.
China clearly has Canada’s number when it comes to food safety
Reading Time: 4 minutes Diplomatically, China has made Canada look like an amateur trying to play in the big leagues.
Why Trump will win in 2020
Reading Time: 4 minutes Blame free-market globalization, and the accompanying wage stagnation and declines in middle-class living standards