Reading Time: 3 minutes The Trudeau government’s aspirations to mandate equality, diversity and inclusion must be open for discussion in society, not just blindly accepted
Category: Life
The importance of compliments
Reading Time: 3 minutes From kind, and specific praise to participation medals for children, some gestures really matter in forming positive lives
A global uprising against rape case injustices
Reading Time: 7 minutes Something is deeply wrong with our legal and political systems in which the accuser and not the accused is on trial
Leave the Assisted Human Reproduction Act alone
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Act laudably puts children’s interests – rather than adult needs – first. It’s time we all did
Did Canada expel Russian diplomats for a false reason?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland plays fast and loose with the facts if she believes her grandfather wasn’t a Nazi collaborator
Insecure about your body image?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Negative body image could be precursor to more serious illnesses, including anorexia, bulimia and body dysmorphic disorder
Shrinkflation: to control costs, food companies shrinking packaging
Reading Time: 4 minutes When costs rise, a food company has three options: raise the price, make smaller packages or change the ingredients
The secret to a long and happy life
Reading Time: 3 minutes Broader and better social interactions are key, according to researchers. So reach out to others
‘Bad things happen to good people’
Reading Time: 4 minutes Final installment in five-part series: As people dig out from Alberta’s worst recession in three decades, Troy Media talks to everyday Albertans who are working to become debt free. The series features the stories of four people whose lives were ruled by debt because of divorce, illness, loss of a loved one or fraud. Growing bills were ruining their lives until they decided to take control of their financial future.
Movie musical Grease turns 40 this summer
Reading Time: 3 minutes Forty years after its release, the movie poses a conundrum for those disposed to view everything through an ideologically-tinted lens