Reading Time: 3 minutes Racism is pointless and will inevitably fail, as it did in baseball. But it is part of our history
Month: February 2021
Alberta should be at the forefront of the shift to electric vehicles
Reading Time: 3 minutes We need a national mining strategy so Canada can supply the global market with the lithium needed for electric vehicle batteries
Why some women fought back against Boko Haram atrocities
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Islamist group has killed tens of thousands and displaced more than 2.3 million people since 2009
Fat-cat Ontario politicians shouldn’t laugh off taking pay cuts
Reading Time: 3 minutes The least elected officials could do is to take a pay cut to show some solidarity with the suffering taxpayers
Farm practices may have altered the quality of our butter
Reading Time: 5 minutes Buttergate is not what the industry needs, nor what Canadians deserve. Let’s hope the dairy industry can clean itself up
Fat cells may influence how the body reacts to heart failure
Reading Time: 3 minutes Promising results in mice open door to new areas of research in treating patients with heart failure
Biden using COVID-19 to advance radical policies
Reading Time: 3 minutes The pandemic has plunged the West into a state of fear, with more people willing to accept greater government interference
Research aims to reduce use of chemical pesticides
Reading Time: 3 minutes Innovative approach using DNA testing could help crop growers reduce reliance on chemical pesticides and conserve beneficial bugs
COVID-19 vaccine task force transparency crucial
Reading Time: 5 minutes Public acceptance of vaccines will depend on how confident people are that the best decisions have been made about which vaccines to purchase. That means eliminating conflicts of interest
Indigenous leaders step up but no applause from environmentalists
Reading Time: 4 minutes First Nations are fighting to get away from dependence on government and determine their own futures. Why are environmental groups standing in the way?