SUZUKI – Winter weather doesn’t disprove global warming
WEATHER AND CLIMATE aren’t the same. It’s one thing for people who spend little or no time learning about global warming to confuse the two, but when those we elect to [Continue]
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POLITICS – Trudeau is wrong to back intervention in Venezuela
Apparently it’s wrong for Russia to interfere in U.S. or Canadian elections, but okay for the U.S. and Canada to pick Venezuela’s leader By GUS VAN HARTEN York University [Continue]
EDUCATION – B.C. system performs well while holding line on spending
B.C. financially supports parents who choose independent schools with per-student grants of up to 50 per cent By ANGELA MacLEOD Analyst, The Fraser Institute WHILE OTHER [Continue]
TRAVIS – No pot of gold at the end of the private auto insurance rainbow
IMAGINE A LAND where drivers pay 55 per cent more for auto insurance than other drivers in Canada, a land where an insurance company may not cover you because of the city you [Continue]
SUZUKI – Eating less meat would make our planet’s environment healthier
JUST AS AVOIDING climate catastrophe isn’t the only reason to phase out fossil fuels, it’s not the only reason to curtail meat consumption. Phasing out fossil fuels will [Continue]
ENVIRONMENT – If we can’t recycle it, why not turn waste plastic into fuel?
By MUXINA KONAROVA The University of Queensland AUSTRALIA’S recycling crisis needs us to look into waste management options beyond just recycling and landfilling. Some [Continue]
SUZUKI – We must stand with hereditary chiefs to defend the land
RECENT CONTROVERSY over a natural gas pipeline blockade and the differing priorities of hereditary chiefs and elected band councillors illustrates a fundamental problem with [Continue]
SUZUKI – Climate change should be the top issue in this year’s federal election
GLOBAL WARMING isn’t a partisan issue — or it shouldn’t be. The many experts issuing dire warnings about the implications of climate disruption work under political [Continue]
MEDIA – Can we restore public’s trust in journalism?
Too many journalists tolerate peers who, through undisciplined abandonment of standards, undermine their craft’s credibility By PETER MENZIES Contributor, Troy Media [Continue]
TAXES – What Canada’s Yellow Vests have in common with Yellow Jackets
Some Canadians and French believe that their ‘leaders’ are mere followers of a supra-national agenda, not champions for their electorate By LEE HARDING Research Fellow [Continue]
POLITICS – With an election ahead, public records must be made public
By BARRY WELLAR University of Ottawa CITIZENS REQUIRE ACCESS to public records in order to become properly informed about the activities of their governments and to provide [Continue]
RELIGION – There’s a place for religion in common and public life
At a time of heightened social divisions and isolation, not to mention divisive politics, religious illiteracy is costly By RAY PENNINGS Executive vice-president Cardus [Continue]
TRAVIS – Drama at B.C. Legislature more Shakespeare than Animal House
IT WOULD SEEM Animal House has closed at the B.C. legislature in favour of a new production – A Taste of Shakespeare – with scenes from Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Titus [Continue]
LABOR – Back-to-work legislation may come back to haunt Justin Trudeau
By CHARLES SMITH University of Saskatchewan, and LARRY SAVAGE Brock University THE JUSTIN TRUDEAU government’s use of back-to-work legislation effectively put an end to the [Continue]
