Reading Time: 3 minutes Let’s be very careful about electing a government that’s bribing us with our own money
Month: September 2019
De-institutionalization of mental illness a costly mistake
Reading Time: 4 minutes Governments reneged on their promise to implement new, community-based treatment programs for the mentally ill
Selling or closing your business can save your life
Reading Time: 4 minutes Deciding to close up shop comes with a lot of stress, shame and disappointment. But you can disappear with some grace
Protecting AER protects Alberta energy industry integrity
Reading Time: 3 minutes It might be tempting to vilify AER as playing a part in the woes that have befallen the industry. But quite the opposite is true
Body language tips for leaders from teachers
Reading Time: 2 minutes The best educators could teach business leaders a thing or two about body language
Economic justice on the way for U.S. college athletes
Reading Time: 4 minutes The hypocrisy in college athletics promotes the amateur myth and tries to suppress the fact that the young athletes have significant market value
How do new Canadians see Indigenous issues?
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s a mistake to assume that recent immigrants to Canada, who make up 20% of our population, will easily understand and embrace the Indigenous, who make up 4.3%
In the heart of the world’s largest non-polar icefield
Reading Time: 5 minutes All was ice, white curving fingers spilling from mountain valleys. Dark lines of ground rock defined each icy highway
Canada must protect its drug supply
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s drug supply is meant to provide for 37 million Canadians, not 370 million Americans. U.S. cross-border shopping could endanger Canadians
Families are key members of patients’ hospital care teams
Reading Time: 4 minutes Wards are staffed based on caring for a sick but otherwise self-sufficient patient population. The reality is patients need family caregivers in the hospital