Reading Time: 4 minutes It is time to resume a few simple activities that would be good both for our minds and our bodies
Author: Doug Firby
Doug Firby is an award-winning editorial writer with more than four decades of experience working for newspapers, magazines and online publications in Ontario and western Canada. Previously, he served as Editorial Page Editor at the Calgary Herald.
Pandemic has exposed our scandalous neglect of the elderly
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada has shunted vulnerable people to nursing homes where staff slave in sometimes filthy, and now dangerous, conditions
France teaches Alphabet the ABCs of competition fairness
Reading Time: 4 minutes Digital technology has allowed news aggregators like Google to steal from media outlets for too long
Pandemic police need to curb their shaming rampage
Reading Time: 4 minutes We’re in this together – let’s all try to remember that some people just need a helping hand rather than insensitive criticism
Our columnists and contributors weigh in on working from home
Reading Time: 9 minutes How they’re faring and what they had to learn about working in the ‘new normal’
How far should we go to stop the social media chaos?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Maybe the problem isn’t the mischief-makers who are planting claims. Maybe it’s the social media themselves that are the problem
Make Frontier the cleanest oil sands project it can be
Reading Time: 4 minutes Allowing the project to proceed – responsibly, with best available environmental practices – really is in the national interest
After a long economic winter, signs of warmth
Reading Time: 3 minutes We need to stop focusing on what has gone wrong and think about not only what’s going right, but also what we need to do to keep things on the upswing
An economist who put the accent on compassion
Reading Time: 4 minutes Nallai showed us there are no differences that we can’t overcome if we show the desire and ability to approach them with an open mind
Breaking down provincial trade barriers an agonizing ordeal
Reading Time: 4 minutes Interprovincial trade constraints cost the Canadian economy as much $130 billion a year and may harm international trade