Other Voices

SUZUKI – Wildfires are a wake-up call about the reality of climate change

August 16, 2017 // 1 Comment

WILDFIRES ARE sweeping B.C. Close to 900 have burned through 600,000 hectares so far this year, blanketing western North America with smoke. Fighting them has cost more than [Continue]

NAFTA – Renegotiations threaten Canada’s steps toward pharmacare

August 13, 2017 // 2 Comments

By RUTH LOPERT and STEVE MORGAN EvidenceNetwork.ca A “MODERNIZED NAFTA” has significant implications for many sectors of the economy, including health care. What’s at [Continue]

CHIDIAC – High grades for Canadian students, high praise for their teachers

August 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

A RECENT BBC article called Canada “an education superpower.” It referred to the fact that, in recent years, Canadian students’ results in literacy, mathematics and [Continue]

SUZUKI – We only have one Earth, and we’re overshooting its capacity

August 9, 2017 // 3 Comments

AUGUST 2 was Earth Overshoot Day. Unlike Earth Day or Canada Day, it’s not a time to celebrate. As the Earth Overshoot Day website explains, it marks the time when “we [Continue]

HEALTH – Charlie Gard and the metaphor of medical ‘warfare’

August 8, 2017 // 1 Comment

By IAN MITCHELL and JULIET GUICHON University of Calgary THE METAPHOR of battling illness is common but pernicious. The recent news of U.S. Sen. John McCain’s brain cancer [Continue]

BUSINESS – Air Canada’s lesson in how not to communicate with customers

August 5, 2017 // 1 Comment

By DAVID FULLER PRINCE GEORGE – “Why are you making us do this?” the lady screeched to the Air Canada check-in attendant at the Dublin Airport recently. “I’ve never [Continue]

McGARVEY – Can Alberta’s new right make room for progressives?

August 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

EDMONTON, Alta. – Have the big changes in Alberta’s conservative movement united the right or will it shatter it? Members of Alberta’s two right-of-centre parties, the [Continue]

SUZUKI – Environmental Protection Act review could strengthen human rights

August 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

GOVERNMENTS CHANGE — along with laws, regulations and priorities. It’s the nature of democracies. In Canada, we’ve seen environmental laws implemented, then weakened or [Continue]

TRAVIS – New government will find some surprises down in the cellar

July 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

AS THE NEW B.C. government settles in and email accounts are transferred over, it’ll soon be time for them to pluck up the courage to check the cellar. The nooks and [Continue]

HISTORY – Cornwallis and Ryerson: were they heroes or villains?

July 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

By GERRY BOWLER Senior Fellow Frontier Centre for Public Policy HOW MUCH of a hero do you have to be to warrant a statue? How much of a villain do you have to be to have your [Continue]

SUZUKI – Local action is needed to resolve world’s biggest problems

July 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

HUMANS ARE are an astonishing anomaly. As many species teeter on extinction, our populations grow in size and complexity. From exploring space to eradicating diseases and [Continue]

CANADIAN TAXPAYERS – Financial disclosures that inspire dancing

July 23, 2017 // 2 Comments

By TODD MacKAY Canadian Taxpayers Federation IT’S A BIT ODD for a happy dance to breakout after a court ruling about financial reporting, but when Charmaine Stick got [Continue]

MURPHY – The Summer of Love in 1967 was a media event, not a revolution

July 23, 2017 // 2 Comments

IF YOU’RE a certain age, you’ll remember 1967’s fabled Summer of Love. Thousands of young people flocked to San Francisco where, often with the help of illegal [Continue]

SUZUKI – Plastic straws suck; get rid of them and help the environment

July 19, 2017 // 1 Comment

OF ALL THE plastic products we use and take for granted, plastic drinking straws are among the most unnecessary. Designed to be used once and discarded, their only real [Continue]