Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s time to reduce funding to police and reallocate those dollars to more proactive ways to reduce crime
Category: The North
Ottawa’s carbon tax hike out of step with global reality
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian taxpayers need financial relief during the COVID-19 crisis. Carbon taxes are an obvious place to start
Municipalities, utilities on the front lines of extreme weather
Reading Time: 4 minutes Smart Energy Communities are not only more resilient, they also create new opportunities for local economic development, lower energy costs and a cleaner environment
Consumer trust in agriculture is waning
Reading Time: 4 minutes Organized, well-funded groups condemning farming practices on social media are winning the consumer trust battle
Municipalities must take the lead in getting the lead out
Reading Time: 5 minutes The astonishing levels of lead in Canada’s drinking water requires action. That means taking simple measures at the local level, aided by federal incentives
Rethink restrictions on private health insurance
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian patients are entitled to make informed choices about their health care. Private health insurance carries many benefits to the broader system
Trudeau tax relief plan will do little for economic growth
Reading Time: 3 minutes Because the government continues to borrow more money, the proposed tax cuts are not cuts at all but punts to future taxpayers
In the heart of the world’s largest non-polar icefield
Reading Time: 5 minutes All was ice, white curving fingers spilling from mountain valleys. Dark lines of ground rock defined each icy highway
A soft egg in the Nahanni National Park Reserve
Reading Time: 6 minutes Discovering Virginia Falls, a remarkable UNESCO World Heritage Site – and learning a little German
Telesat, feds partner to bring affordable internet access to the far north
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ten years ago Internet service might have been in the “nice to have” category; now it is in the “must have” category