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RELIGION – There’s a place for religion in common and public life

December 25, 2018 // 0 Comments

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

December 15, 2018 // 0 Comments

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

December 7, 2018 // 1 Comment

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]

MEDIA – Legacy media is in a zombie state, so why waste public money on it?

December 1, 2018 // 0 Comments

Leave reporting to independent innovators who build the public trust honestly. Any government subsidy surely undermines that trust By PETER MENZIES Contributor, Troy Media A [Continue]

TRAVIS – Looking for an answer to a fairly straight-forward question

November 29, 2018 // 2 Comments

A BIT OF GOOD NEWS came out of Victoria this week, which could have easily been missed under the avalanche of bad news that was coming out of the capital. British Columbia is [Continue]

SUZUKI – Decades of denial and stalling have created a climate crunch

November 28, 2018 // 2 Comments

IN A 1965 SPEECH to members, American Petroleum Institute president Frank Ikard outlined the findings of a report by then-president Lyndon Johnson’s Science Advisory [Continue]

RIGHTS – Revoking birthright citizenship affects everyone, not just foreigners

November 24, 2018 // 2 Comments

Stateless persons have difficulty accessing education, employment, health care, social services and freedom of movement By JAMI LIEW Evidence Network.ca THERE’S BEEN A [Continue]

SUZUKI – Ocean study criticism shows benefits of scientific method

November 21, 2018 // 1 Comment

ERRORS IN A RECENT ocean warming study illustrate global warming’s complexity. They also show the depths to which climate science deniers will stoop to dismiss or downplay [Continue]

INTERNET – CRTC wants to tax users to subsidize Canadian content creators

November 15, 2018 // 2 Comments

What does and doesn’t stream over the Internet is none of the CRTC’s business By PETER MENZIES Contributor Troy Media SOMETIME IN the not too distant future, everyone [Continue]

SUZUKI – Tackling climate change requires healing the divide

November 14, 2018 // 0 Comments

CANADIAN CLIMATE CHANGE opinion is polarized, and research shows the divide is widening. The greatest predictor of people’s outlook is political affiliation. This means [Continue]

REFERENDUM – The compelling arguments against prop rep in B.C.

November 12, 2018 // 5 Comments

Former NDP Premiers Glen Clark and Ujjal Dosanjh may be against electoral reform, but retired lawyer Ian MacLeod expresses his opposition best By ROSLYN KUNIN Columnist, Troy [Continue]

POLITICS – Is there a conservative case against the carbon tax?

November 10, 2018 // 1 Comment

All four strands of conservatism in Canada – traditionalist, religious, free-market and populist – should logically support a tax By JIM FARNEY EvidenceNetwork.ca [Continue]

CLIMATE CHANGE – We need a new, more relevant kind of weather forecast

November 8, 2018 // 0 Comments

More regular reporting on extreme weather patterns would help Canadians understand the real threat of climate change By MICHAEL WOLFSON EvidenceNetwork.ca THE TORNADOES that [Continue]

SUZUKI – Human behaviour is at the root of orca plight on B.C.’s coast

November 7, 2018 // 1 Comment

NEWS ABOUT ORCA MOTHER Tahlequah carrying her dead newborn for 17 days through the Salish Sea this summer was heartbreaking, and rightfully captured the world’s attention. [Continue]