Reading Time: 3 minutes Personality and upbringing play a significant role in developing moral character, but certain aspects can be taught
Month: December 2020
The year’s top food-related stories
Reading Time: 4 minutes From lab-grown meat to grocery store staff bonuses to the food-service crisis to gardening and cooking at home to panic buying
Second time’s the harm when it comes to lockdowns
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s not the headlines that kill, it’s the many burdens caused by lockdowns that render small businesses unprofitable
Identity politics is an evil virus spreading across society
Reading Time: 4 minutes This obsession with identity can do nothing good for a society that values equality of treatment of all its people
Craving the touchstones of Christmas tradition
Reading Time: 3 minutes The traditions and rituals of the festive season have a part to play in creating a sense of normalcy during this time of pandemic
Health-care wait times in Canada hit record high in 2020
Reading Time: 3 minutes Patients in Canada face the longest wait time for elective surgery on record
Li Ka Shing Applied Virology Institute gets $20M in funding
Reading Time: 4 minutes Research hub gains significant provincial support to accelerate research and commercialization of antiviral drugs and vaccines
Remarkable technology kept under wraps by U.S. military
Reading Time: 4 minutes The space race has been fully engaged for years. And military powers like the United States are sitting on some stunning discoveries
Our close bond with dogs has a long history, study shows
Reading Time: 3 minutes Dogs were certainly useful but ‘people clearly had emotional attachments to their dogs from the very beginning’
Hunkering down – reluctantly – for the holidays
Reading Time: 4 minutes The longer the pandemic and the necessity of restrictions drags on, the costlier it becomes for our inner selves