The media is actively promoting doctor assisted suicide
Reading Time: 5 minutes The use of euphemisms such as "assisted dying" rather than “euthanasia” or “assisted suicide” is putting…
Truth, lies and the insidious rise of “misinformation”
Reading Time: 4 minutes Political debate has become sanctimonious lecturing, with one side refusing to accept even the possibility that…
Strange weather and the words we use to describe it
Reading Time: 3 minutes Thousands of words describe weather. Some arise from folklore, some carry historical inferences and others are…
Time to combat the COVID-19 narrative of fear
Reading Time: 4 minutes What we need is well-informed, critical and rational thought, combined with a healthy skepticism of politicians…
To protect democracy, we must protect local media
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our 21st-century reliance on tech giants to supply us with information has resulted in fake news,…
Just the facts? Don’t count on fact-checkers
Reading Time: 4 minutes A closer look at almost every fact-checking organization shows a great deal of politics and vested…
Media freedom doesn’t come free
Reading Time: 3 minutes Government funding is no magic bullet. Nor are crowdsourced and advertising-supported journalism perfect
CBC has outlived its usefulness
Reading Time: 3 minutes The policy rationale for the existence of the CBC no longer meets the reality of the…