Reading Time: 3 minutes Donald Trump is the new normal: Leader of the Free World V2.0, specially adapted to thrive in an age of happy ignorance
Author: Alec Bruce
Take this job and … uh, love it?
Reading Time: 3 minutes A truly-bad-job phenomenon is gathering on the horizon, particularly for young people. What do we do about it?
Come on, get happy: if a survey says we are, it must be true
Reading Time: 4 minutes Apparently, as you get older you get happier. Sclerotic, arthritic, calcified, deaf, blind, stupid and poor equals happy? Where do I sign up?
Towing the party line in the Internet age
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s worthwhile remembering that before the Internet, instant messaging, social media and meme merchandising, depending on where you lived, almost nothing was private
Gigging it in the free world
Reading Time: 3 minutes The gig economy is gaining traction, for better or worse. Who needs benefits or job security when you can work on a high wire?
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?
Innovation is a lot like life, with all its ups and downs
Reading Time: 3 minutes Despite government hyperbole, small businesses know that innovation is difficult, costly and sometimes reveals unfortunate truths
Into the great wide open: Nova Scotia’s space ambitions
Reading Time: 3 minutes A planned spaceport on the East Coast would launch eight satellite-carrying rockets annually by 2022
Tear down Canada’s interprovincial trade walls
Reading Time: 3 minutes The annual national price tag for maintaining internal barriers may top $130 billion
When did green become the new orange in Canadian politics?
Reading Time: 3 minutes So, Green Party, you want to build a kinder, gentler corner of the world? How? What, exactly, do you have in mind?