Reading Time: 4 minutes How an old sailor’s vernacular links us to the past, gives us perspective on a disruptive future … and makes us smile
Category: Life
The hard truth about CPP’s failures
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadians receive meagre rates of return on CPP contributions and the program has other key shortcomings
Is your home killing you?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Radon is an invisible, silent, odourless killer. But it can be easily detected with this device
Lofty valuations, volatile markets leave investors anxious
Reading Time: 3 minutes It seems as if investors have forgotten how to gauge market uncertainty. Any potential bad news has them panicking
Overcoming mental health issues – and the stigma surrounding them
Reading Time: 3 minutes We have a long way to go in improving the understanding of mental health issues and in serving those who have them, but people like DeMar DeRozan are helping
The plastic bag pollution paradox
Reading Time: 4 minutes At least 5.25 trillion plastic particles weighing 268,940 tons are floating in our oceans but we struggle to find packaging alternatives
Digital present, paperless future in store for drivers
Reading Time: 3 minutes People are becoming more confident that private information can be used, received and shared electronically
Liberals’ “values test” a threat to freedom in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes The freedom of Canadian citizens to peacefully oppose anything, including abortion, is the very base on which all rights are founded
My fireplace just helped renew my faith in humanity
Reading Time: 3 minutes A household calamity, an accommodating retailer, some dirty and hard work, and a twofold payoff at the end
Painting a masterpiece: the art of dissent in search of truth
Reading Time: 3 minutes Freedom of expression in the arts is as fragile as freedom of the press, and it’s just as vital to human rights as freedom of thought