Reading Time: 3 minutes If we want true security, we need see beyond our prejudices and invest in global development that promotes justice and progress for all humanity
Category: Today
Misconceptions threaten funding for B.C. independent schools
Reading Time: 3 minutes Removing partial public funding for independent schools based on a series of misconceptions does nothing to improve education
Take a deep breath: Canada’s air quality is much improved
Reading Time: 3 minutes Data indicates it is time for policy-makers to consider regulatory relief rather than a further tightening of pollution standards
Under the spectre of the presidential warmonger
Reading Time: 4 minutes Put Donald Trump’s obvious personal flaws aside. The big issue that should have defeated him is his affection for war and violence
Trump’s milk shake puts Canada’s dairy industry on notice
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s dairy farmers are about to pay a heavy price for Ottawa’s lack of leadership. Dramatic changes are on the way on someone else’s terms
Supply management stands in defiance of fair trade
Reading Time: 3 minutes If Canada eliminated its supply management system and the U.S. opened up the softwood lumber industry, both countries would benefit politically and economically
Your financial adviser’s interests may not align with yours
Reading Time: 3 minutes Do your homework. Look with a critical eye at your service providers. After all, it is your money
Electoral reform by any other name is still progress
Reading Time: 4 minutes Relax party discipline to dent the iron control of a majority government, forcing it to make compromises and behave less like a dictatorship
The lost art of face-to-face interaction
Reading Time: 4 minutes When is IT disruption of human communication disruptive of humanity itself? How many chances for personal interaction are lost because of automated interfaces?
Western culture’s paralyzing crisis of confidence
Reading Time: 3 minutes University students are increasingly intolerant and, indoctrinated with a poisonous cocktail of negativity, taught that western civilization is immoral