GARDNER – NDP government set to steamroll over rights of B.C. workers
By CHRIS GARDNER Independent Contractors and Business Association IT’S HARD TO IMAGINE that in 2022 in British Columbia, we are facing the prospect of a government [Continue]
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ZELENSKY TO CANADA – ‘We want to live; we want to have peace’
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke via video link today to the Canadian Parliament. Here is the translation of his speech: Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, [Continue]
SUZUKI – Fueling a climate of uncertainty in a time of war
IT’S A TRAGIC TRUTH that some people are willing to inflict unfathomable suffering and death for the sake of power and wealth. From Russia’s aggression in Ukraine to [Continue]
SUZUKI – We’re not the individuals we believe ourselves to be
WE USUALLY THINK of ecosystems as landscapes outside ourselves. After all, aren’t we strikingly singular — unique in and for our thoughts, abilities and personalities? [Continue]
TRUCKER CONVOY – Elites are blowing their response to the ‘freedom’ protests
If you attack, slander, dismiss or silence your enemy: You. Will. Lose By SHAWN WHATLEY Munk Senior Fellow Macdonald-Laurier Institute ANYONE WHO SERVES the public learns how [Continue]
SUZUKI – Anthropocene means that we hold the key to our future
GEOLOGISTS HAVE CLASSIFED most epochs in Earth’s history according to fossils, radiometric dating and composition of the strata. The widely endorsed label for our current [Continue]
POLITICS – Former Speaker Darryl Plecas lands on 2021 Nice List
By KRIS SIMS B.C. Director, Canadian Taxpayers Federation DARRYL PLECAS has given British Columbians a gift that keeps giving all year long: government transparency. Before [Continue]
CHRISTMAS – Five things to know about Mary, the mother of Jesus
Jan van Eyck, The Ghent Altarpiece, 1432. Virgin Mary detail. (Wikimedia Commons) By PHILIP C. ALMOND The University of Queensland MARY, THE MOTHER OF JESUS, is [Continue]
MORGAN – Vaccine passports are not only unreliable, they’re dangerous
Evidence that vaccinated people can and do contract and spread the virus undermines the rationale of vaccine passports THE CREATION of multiple COVID-19 vaccines in an [Continue]
SUZUKI – If our stories set us apart, we need to create new ones
ACCORDING TO philosopher-historian Yuval Noah Harari, “Homo sapiens conquered this planet thanks above all to the unique human ability to create and spread fictions. [Continue]
MENZIES – It’s time to escape from our COVID-induced prison
Fear of dying has stripped us of the courage to live By PETER MENZIES Contributor, Troy Media IT’S BEEN ALMOST TWO YEARS now since I had a social life of any kind. You [Continue]
CLIMATE – How an ‘atmospheric river’ led to floods and mudslides in B.C.
By JOHN J. CLAGUE Simon Fraser University THE WEST COAST of Canada is known for its wet autumn weather, but the storm that British Columbia’s Fraser Valley experienced over [Continue]
RECONCILIATION – Canada is not a half-mast nation
The price of Trudeau’s empty gesture was nothing less than a cheapening of the Canadian idea By PATRICE DUTIL Senior fellow Macdonald-Laurier Institute THE TRUDEAU [Continue]
SUZUKI – It will take more than electric cars to drive down emissions
RESOLVING THE CLIMATE CRISIS isn’t just about shifting from one technology to another; it’s about shifting our ways of thinking and being. It’s a point that often gets [Continue]
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