Reading Time: 3 minutes Our students and their teachers deserve praise for exceptional PISA test results, but Canadians need to make continued education a priority
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Move health research out of the academy and into the community
Reading Time: 4 minutes Health changes require greater input by people trained to create a difference – and that’s not happening in Canada
Feds should eliminate special tax preferences but ….
Reading Time: 3 minutes … not to simply increase revenue but to use the extra revenue to reduce overall tax rates
The lessons I learned from the year just passed
Reading Time: 3 minutes While the annual ritual of thinking up New Year’s Resolutions is starting to leave me cold, I did learn a few things from 2016
The battle for Mosul inches forward
Reading Time: 4 minutes So far, Islamic State forces have stopped short of using civilians as a buffer between its and the advancing Iraqi military
The press is losing touch with the real world – and its audience
Reading Time: 4 minutes The line between editorial and opinion has disappeared, carried away by crusaders who see reporting as a calling to advance causes, not facts
Internet of things will sow a bumper crop on farms
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian farms will become much more efficient, contributing more to global food systems and increasing food sector profitability
Living in the post-truth world, energy style
Reading Time: 4 minutes Post-truth nonsense about fossil fuels paints a dangerous, damaging and distorted picture of Canada’s energy use and production
Don’t just rebuild houses, build ’em better
Reading Time: 3 minutes Building better, unfortunately, inevitably costs more than taking the path of least resistance so government financial help will be required
Indigenous people are not the ‘ghosts of history’
Reading Time: 4 minutes By honouring treaties and the rights they bestow, Canada can go a long way toward restoring pride, respect and dignity to indigenous peoples