KINSELLA – Do voters just tune out Donald Trump’s many sins?
FORGET IT. Two years ago, in a limitless and sunny August when a global pandemic seemed like an impossibility, my daughter and I knocked on doors for the Democrats in [Continue]
Other Voices
POLITICS – Trump’s hospitalization may cause instability at the White House
By JACK L. ROZDILSKY York University, Canada WITH THE ANNOUNCEMENT of President Donald Trump’s hospitalization for COVID-19, a dangerous situation is now unfolding at the [Continue]
POLITICS – Sorting out the chaotic ‘debate’ between Biden and Trump
Alison Gash, University of Oregon; Alexander Cohen, Clarkson University, and Rashawn Ray, University of Maryland President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden [Continue]
ISSUES – The past isn’t a script that we set down in non-revisable stone
Vandalizing public spaces under the delusion that such acts make yesterday a better today is sad-sack politics that fosters democratic weakness FOR HER BOOK Talking Stones: [Continue]
POLITICS – With Harris pick, Biden reaches out to young black Americans
By SAM FULWOOD III American University and DAVID C. BARKER American University School of Public Affairs WITH HIS choice of Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate, Joe Biden [Continue]
SUZUKI – Four-day workweek can spur necessary transformation
WHEN WE STARTED the David Suzuki Foundation in 1990, we implemented a four-day, 34-hour workweek. Staff consistently say it’s made their lives better, giving them time to [Continue]
SUZUKI – Coal power should be relegated to the ash heap of history
DURING AND AFTER his 2016 campaign, the current U.S. president promised to make coal great again. He also claimed climate change was a hoax, so it’s no surprise that he’d [Continue]
FIRBY – Lewis needs more experience before she can be a true contender
IF THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY of Canada truly wanted to turn its party-of-angry-old-white-men image on its head, to herald a new era of principled conservatism, and to reach out [Continue]
SUZUKI – Reflections from an elder in isolation
I’M FORTUNATE. This slowdown is giving me time with my grandchildren who are with me, and to think about what has mattered most in my life, what has given me the greatest [Continue]
GUN CONTROL – Why Canada’s gun ban won’t put a stop to the shootings
By PAZ GOMEZ Research associate Frontier Centre for Public Policy A PROHIBITION is the easiest way out of a policy problem. In enacting one to target gun violence, the [Continue]
SUZUKI – Multiple crises signal the need to change course
THE VIRUS SPREADING COVID-19 worldwide jumped from non-human animals to people — as have most new diseases, from AIDS to SARS to Ebola. We may not know the precise origin [Continue]
SUZUKI – Reimagining streets could lead to healthier cities
DURING THE COVID-19 pandemic, cities worldwide have been repurposing streets to create more room for walking and cycling. In some, temporary measures to help people maintain [Continue]
POLICING – How police departments can identify and get rid of killer cops
By TEMITOPE ORIOLA University of Alberta THE GLOBAL CONDEMNATION of the death of George Floyd, one of the latest in a constellation of officer-involved deaths of unarmed [Continue]
COVID-19 – Current pandemic stirs memories of the Y2K scare
By LEE HARDING Research fellow Frontier Centre for Public Policy TWENTY-ONE YEARS AGO, the world panicked over an invisible, media-hyped enemy. That enemy was Y2K, a [Continue]
