Reading Time: 3 minutes The new creative economy needs huge numbers of educated individuals – only available through free tuition – if it is not to suffer serious long-term damage
Category: Politics
Trump turmoil will only grow as election counts down
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Republican presidential hopeful is a pit bull, let loose on the streets with no leash and always hungry for a fight
There’s nothing new about foreign intervention in elections
Reading Time: 3 minutes Russian hacking of DNC emails? Sounds like business as usual in the modern history of political interference by other countries
Turkey and Egypt: a tale of two coups
Reading Time: 3 minutes The coups may have ended differently, but both are consequential for Middle East stability
Bio-fuels one of man’s greatest blunders
Reading Time: 3 minutes The zero-emissions bio-fuel myth ignores the horrible environmental impacts of its production and the dramatic impact on world food stocks
Electoral reform fraught with unintended consequences
Reading Time: 3 minutes PR, for example, leads to more government spending and higher deficits, and disproportionately empowers voters from one-issue fringe parties
Political twitter warriors all thumbs no action
Reading Time: 3 minutes Jason Kenney is the worst kind of Twitter troll: all bluster when typing with his thumbs, no action when he’s in a position of power
Could legal pot finally liberate Canadian booze?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The final vestiges of a moral crusade against booze could finally be buried by legalized marijuana
A candidate’s (ghost-written) words are not enough
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ideology and anecdotal content can’t save a politician’s speech if the candidate doesn’t have the oratory skills to sell it all
British Columbians need action to curb high taxes, not more study
Reading Time: 3 minutes Continued inaction ultimately means fewer opportunities and less prosperity for British Columbians