Reading Time: 4 minutes It is in emergencies that we see whether our deepest societal values mean anything
Tag: Abuse of power
Pandemic exposes weaknesses of government intervention
Reading Time: 5 minutes Governments boasted of having “Canadians backs” while failing to provide basic health services, rapid testing, comprehensive tracing, and the timely roll-out of vaccinations
What happens when a hospice rejects medical assistance in dying?
Reading Time: 4 minutes ‘This is about the B.C. government destroying a sanctuary for dying patients who want the choice to stay in a facility where MAID is not offered’
Sun-soaked vacations show why Albertans need recall legislation
Reading Time: 3 minutes Albertans have every right to hate the hypocrisy coming from United Conservative Party
Thankfully 2020 is over, but we’re not out of the woods yet
Reading Time: 4 minutes There’s that little matter of actually rolling out the vaccines on a much wider scale in Canada
Our biggest COVID-19 problem is undue panic
Reading Time: 4 minutes The time has come to stop obsessing about the number of cases, even if they’re rising. Cases don’t equal hospitalizations and they don’t equal deaths
Trudeau government dodges democratic accountability
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s hard not to interpret the federal government’s ongoing refusal to deliver a full budget as yet another example of avoiding accountability
“Medical assistance in dying” worries many Canadians
Reading Time: 4 minutes A UN report is critical of Canada’s poor MAID safeguards for people with disabilities and their lack of access to viable MAID alternatives
The war on drugs is costly and off-target
Reading Time: 5 minutes A report on drug abuse released by police chiefs is less about reducing drug abuse and more about protecting police budgets and jobs
In search of an American tax daddy for Canadian media
Reading Time: 3 minutes The federal government is apparently preparing massive regulation of the Internet, pandering to the views of niche lobby groups