Reading Time: 3 minutes Would help consumers know what’s in their food but there are some gaps in the system
Category: Life
Stuck in traffic: why won’t Vancouver embrace Uber?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The benefits of ride-hailing services are many, for both individuals and communities. So what’s the holdup in B.C.?
Indigenous businessman decries Canada Summer Jobs edict as ‘insidious’
Reading Time: 3 minutes Compares the government’s rule change to the reviled Indian Act for imposing ironclad status-quo thinking
“I am a man with Down syndrome and my life is worth living”
Reading Time: 3 minutes History is full of policies established to determine which human lives were valuable and which were not. Are we comfortable going down that path again?
The green agenda comes at a high cost for Canadians
Reading Time: 3 minutes Government green programs impose costs on third parties. Consumers and taxpayers must pay for those policies, and the environment actually suffers
Price fixing scandal breaking bad for grocers
Reading Time: 3 minutes The growing bakery goods price fixing investigation puts the onus on manufacturers and retailers to reach out to consumers in meaningful ways
The plastic bag ban bandwagon is way off course
Reading Time: 3 minutes A ban of anything the environmental movement doesn’t like is smart politics for a government that wants to look green. But a bag ban is pointless
Politics, propaganda and the Bayeux Tapestry
Reading Time: 3 minutes French President Emmanuel Macron has loaned the historic depiction to Britain for public display. Is he taunting the English about Brexit?
The end of the sexual revolution, the start of a new awakening?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Justin Trudeau must set a new standard for sexual propriety in great part because his father dismantled traditional values
Can meditation create a more peaceful world?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Studies show that meditation and mindfulness training lead to better health in body, mind and spirit. Is that enough to solve the world’s problems?