Reading Time: 3 minutes The popularity of Canada’s parks and protected areas is creating problems that will require more than simply banning people to solve
Category: Life
Learning about life from my first real boss
Reading Time: 4 minutes What we think of as progress doesn’t cut it for someone who actually remembers when it took hard work and skills training to make a living
A museum opts for happy hippy love bugs instead of honesty
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts exhibit mythologizes the 1960s by ignoring the dark ugliness masked by all those drug-addled smiles
Love is the most powerful force on Earth
Reading Time: 3 minutes It wasn’t violence that freed India from Great Britain. It was love. Weapons didn’t end the Cold War. It was people who chose to love rather than to hate
Changing behaviour is only one aim of carbon taxes
Reading Time: 3 minutes A carbon tax used to subsidize alternate energy sources will accelerate the transition away from fossil fuel dependence
A tip of the (baseball) cap to Peter Stoffer
Reading Time: 3 minutes The former MP filled the walls of his Parliament Hill office with 8,000 baseball caps, 9,000 pins and 5,000 buttons he’d collected over 18 years
Becoming our best selves a challenge for each of us
Reading Time: 3 minutes We don’t control the future but we do determine the legacy we leave, positive or negative
Guiding Canada down a multicultural food path, with consequences
Reading Time: 3 minutes The next food guide will make the disconnect between Canadian agricultural policies and food consumption much more obvious
Ontario’s high electricity costs could cripple families
Reading Time: 3 minutes If electricity prices keep rising at their current rate, the trade-offs that families have to make will become increasingly difficult to manage
In the fight for kids’ attention, parents don’t stand a chance
Reading Time: 3 minutes Study shows Canadian kids see more than 25 million online food and beverage ads a year – mostly for junk food. It’s time for that to end