Reading Time: 3 minutes News media increasingly less literate on complex issues simply because they no longer have the time to bone up on the basics
Tag: Idealogues
Justin Trudeau’s vision of Canada lacks substance and clear intent
Reading Time: 3 minutes We should not equate change with progress, but we should expect real leadership from our prime minister
Let’s plot a path to reasoned political discourse
Reading Time: 4 minutes Many politicians spend most their time responding to constituents who get their information from bloggers with axes to grind
Health care should be modernized, not privatized
Reading Time: 3 minutes Two-tier care and extra-billing being sold to the public as strategies for saving health care
Canadian conservatives need to pause, regroup
Reading Time: 3 minutes Despite the hype, Canadian conservatism will recover
COP21 the latest ‘last chance’ for humanity
Reading Time: 3 minutes ISIS and the delegates to COP21 are all purveyors of apocalyptic ideologies
Saskatchewan’s MRI policy puts patients ahead of ideology
Reading Time: 3 minutes Private scans are now also available to others beside professional athletes, politicians and those who can afford to leave the country
Technology alone should not drive education reform
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hopefully a new report from the OECD slows down the mad rush to equip students of all ages with the latest computer gadgets
Milton Friedman and the Volkswagen implosion
Reading Time: 3 minutes It was Friedman who laid out the monetarist case AGAINST social responsibility for business