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
Category: Today
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
Mental health system ignores those with developmental disabilities
Reading Time: 4 minutes Almost half of those with developmental disabilities are diagnosed with mental illness or addiction and are among the most frequent visitors to ERs
Regulating marijuana is a fool’s errand
Reading Time: 3 minutes The good news: an absurd prohibition on pot is about to end. The bad news: the Trudeau government has tied itself in knots
How to reflect positive messages to young people
Reading Time: 3 minutes If we want to have young people who aren’t stifled by fear of the judgments of others, we need to help to develop their character
Modernizing labour laws could set Alberta up for economic success
Reading Time: 3 minutes The mark of a dynamic economy with flexible labour laws is one where employers and workers can quickly and easily respond to market changes