Reading Time: 3 minutes Does the rising discussion about white privilege represent hate speech against white people?
Category: Life
The stories of four Albertans working to slay their debt demons
Reading Time: 4 minutes First of a five-part series: As people slowly begin to dig out from Alberta’s worst recession in three decades, Troy Media talks to everyday Albertans who are working to become debt free
How do we play the mating game in the #MeToo era?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The workplace was once an acceptable place to find romance. Now it’s a place to court misunderstanding and perhaps disaster
Why authoritarian populists are destined to fail
Reading Time: 4 minutes A review of Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now: the Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Comeau ruling defies economic – and common – sense
Reading Time: 3 minutes A Supreme Court ruling that there’s no ‘constitutional guarantee of free trade’ will stifle both competition and lower prices for consumers
Social justice warriors love diversity, except of opinions
Reading Time: 4 minutes Would you want your favourite sports team to choose its players based on diversity, or on the best players out there?
Listen to your anger and learn from it
Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s a gap between the stimulus that causes anger and our response. We need to better assess the situation, then choose our response
MedicAlert a voice for autistics in crisis situations
Reading Time: 3 minutes The MedicAlert Autism Program allows emergency responders to make better decisions to help people in times of need
Children are threatened when secrets are kept from parents
Reading Time: 3 minutes Alberta’s Bill 24 ignores the fact that predators thrive in an environment where secrets are kept from parents
#TimesUp supplants #MeToo as a movement of positive action
Reading Time: 4 minutes #TimesUp is the kind of action that can lead to permanent positive change