Other Voices

DOOMSDAY CLOCK – It’s 90 seconds to midnight, closest ever to catastrophe

January 27, 2023 // 1 Comment

By JACK L. ROZDILSKY and CHRISTIAN FAIZE CANAAN York University, Canada On Jan. 24, history was again made when the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ organization moved [Continue]

GIESBRECHT – Time to un-cancel diversity of opinion

December 28, 2022 // 2 Comments

Intolerance undermines the free speech essential for democracy to survive By BRIAN GIESBRECHT Frontier Centre for Public Policy THE QUEST FOR ‘DIVERSITY’ has [Continue]

PANDEMIC – Forcing kids to wear masks in school again is a bad idea

December 20, 2022 // 1 Comment

By MICHAEL ZWAAGSTRA Contributor, Troy Media HOSPITALS ARE EXPERIENCING an influx of young children with serious respiratory illnesses. Out of concern for their well-being, [Continue]

SUZUKI – As climate conference wraps up, we must all do our part

November 25, 2022 // 1 Comment

THE 27th ANNUAL Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change recently wrapped up, and the world continues to burn. Despite positive [Continue]

SUZUKI – Herman Daly saw economy, ecology and ethics as inseparable

November 9, 2022 // 2 Comments

OUR CONSUMERIST-CAPITALIST economic system was conceived relatively recently, albeit when conditions were far different than today. But we’re now so entrenched in it that [Continue]

SCHOOLS – Expanded Valleyview secondary will help students to thrive

November 9, 2022 // 0 Comments

By JENNIFER WHITESIDE Education and Child Care Minister LAST WEEK, the community had much to celebrate as students returned to expanded and modern classrooms at Valleyview [Continue]

POLITICS – How Danielle Smith won in Alberta and what it means for Canada

October 10, 2022 // 1 Comment

By LISA YOUNG University of Calgary DANIELLE SMITH RODE A WAVE of Alberta populism to win the United Conservative Party leadership on the sixth ballot. When she is sworn in [Continue]

CIVIC ELECTION – Elect candidates who will cut red tape for builders

September 13, 2022 // 3 Comments

By CHRIS GARDNER President, Independent Contractors & Business Association WITH INFLATION making life more unaffordable than ever in British Columbia as we head into a [Continue]

QUEEN ELIZABETH II – A modernizer who steered the monarchy into 21st century

September 8, 2022 // 0 Comments

By SEAN LANG Anglie Ruskin University WHEN THE LATE historian Sir Ben Pimlott embarked on his 1996 biography, his colleagues expressed surprise that he should consider Queen [Continue]

SUZUKI – Water runs through the climate crisis

September 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

SOMETIMES there’s too much water; sometimes not enough. A major challenge with global heating is that it doesn’t necessarily cause more or less of something in a specific [Continue]

EDUCATION – Why can’t Canada also address student loan debt?

August 30, 2022 // 0 Comments

America is taking a tentative step to help students. Canada needs to do much more to make post-secondary education affordable for all By ERIKA SHAKER Canadian Centre for [Continue]

TRANS MOUNTAIN – Killing project would hurt indigenous communities

August 8, 2022 // 4 Comments

By JOSEPH QUESNEL Troy Media Ottawa needs to finally declare through legislation that the Trans Mountain Expansion Project is to the national advantage of Canada. Doing so [Continue]

SUZUKI – We can’t look away from an overheating world

July 26, 2022 // 0 Comments

NEAR THE END of the film Don’t Look Up, Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, astronomer Randall Mindy, turns to the people around him and says, “We really did have [Continue]

SUZUKI – For health habitats, leave it to beavers and other animal engineers

July 19, 2022 // 0 Comments

BEAVERS HAVE LONG BEEN considered nuisances. They knock down trees and block waterways, often flooding areas where humans live and gather. But recent moves to leave the [Continue]