Reading Time: 4 minutes The NHL is ready to enter the betting ring. It’s a sign of liberalizing laws and the search for ever more revenue
Category: Today
Is today’s baseball player better than yesteryear’s?
Reading Time: 4 minutes They may well be, but the game certainly isn’t as compelling or entertaining as it once was
Blowing up climate change
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s hard to imagine a doomsday scenario with higher stakes, more exaggeration and greater calls for government intervention. It’s just moral panic
We can help seniors struggling with depression
Reading Time: 3 minutes Aging carries with it increased risk of depression, often as the result of other conditions and even as a side-effect of medication
Municipal governments should do less and spend less
Reading Time: 3 minutes The surest way to trim the bloated costs of municipal services is to privatize them. Competition drives costs down and quality up
Halifax and Vancouver the gateways to a nation
Reading Time: 3 minutes A comparison of east and west portals to the Canadian adventure, then and now
We’re all ears for holiday headphones
Reading Time: 4 minutes Ears come in all different shapes and sizes and so do earphones, earbuds and headphones
Rhodes cultural policy is a template for Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Greeks believe that supporting the arts and culture is not a luxury but an investment in human progress
There’s never enough for Manitoba’s expensive public schools
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s time the provincial government took over taxation decisions, merged school divisions and put a lid on spending
Legend, reality and the Outlaw King
Reading Time: 3 minutes The full story of Robert the Bruce’s ascendancy to the Scottish crown is more intricate and certainly less romantic