Reading Time: 3 minutes Instead of targeting affordable housing, B.C. government should be targeting housing affordability
Category: Life
Pay equity laws alone won’t close the gap
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canadian families need affordable, accessible child care to effectively address gender equity issues
Not just a fluffy tale about the Easter Bunny
Reading Time: 3 minutes The refusal by foster parents to lie about a mythical rabbit should not have meant the removal of children in their care
A meatless Canada? No, but we’re becoming more discerning
Reading Time: 4 minutes A recent poll by Dalhousie University suggests that our food choices are becoming more varied
Stalin’s Moscow show trials a blind spot for western intellectuals
Reading Time: 3 minutes The eagerness of western intellectuals to justify the Moscow show trials of the late ’30s was what was truly frightening about them
Increase in counterfeit drugs a danger to Canadians
Reading Time: 3 minutes As the trade in counterfeit drugs grows, so do the risks to Canadian patients and the costs to legitimate manufacturers
Moving forward together to be a light for a broken world
Reading Time: 3 minutes We gain strength when we decide that we won’t allow the crimes of others to hold us back. We gain true freedom when we forgive our oppressors
Why churches don’t pay taxes
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s a matter of recognizing that the church is not ultimately subject to the sovereignty of the state
Kate Harris’ Lands of Lost Borders a masterpiece
Reading Time: 3 minutes In Lands of Lost Borders, Kate Harris ruminates on 10 months aboard a bicycle along the Silk Road once conquered by Marco Polo
Let me up, I’ve had enough … of rampant rudeness
Reading Time: 3 minutes Beside being tired of people playing the race card and gender inequality protests, I’m sick of people taking sides in an argument where they lack the basic facts