Reading Time: 4 minutes Elections will turn us away from dealing with the real issues. And we don’t seem to have the means to conduct safe voting
Month: September 2020
John Turner and the demise of gentlemanly politics
Reading Time: 4 minutes Politicians like the late prime minister are sources of inspiration for public service, intelligent discourse and common decency
Forensic anthropologist helps police identify unknown victims
Reading Time: 4 minutes For Pamela Mayne Correia, the most satisfying cases are the ones she helps solve with the scarcest of skeletal remains
Indigenous people ready to do business with oil and gas
Reading Time: 4 minutes Road to Reconciliation begins when Indigenous people can stand on their own two feet financially and when their quality of life increases
In search of an American tax daddy for Canadian media
Reading Time: 3 minutes The federal government is apparently preparing massive regulation of the Internet, pandering to the views of niche lobby groups
As COVID-19 cases rise again, oil forecasts fall
Reading Time: 3 minutes The world is past the era of growing crude oil demand and it may never recover to pre-pandemic levels
John Turner’s poisoned chalice
Reading Time: 3 minutes Succeeding Pierre Trudeau came with own baggage. As a result, Turner, a former golden boy of the Liberals who died Saturday, never fulfilled his promise
The smartest things ever said about sports
Reading Time: 4 minutes Despite what Vince Lombardi said, if winning’s the only thing in sports, you’re going to be miserable a lot of the time
Survival of the fittest, from a very young age
Reading Time: 4 minutes Some orphaned babies are unlikely to survive if very young but others can fend for themselves at an early age
John Turner had an unflagging faith in the people
Reading Time: 3 minutes The former prime minister considered that an article of faith, a truth that deserved defending. It reflected the essence of his dignity