Other Voices

TRAVIS – Government’s credit card charges reveal eclectic spending record

March 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

GOVERNMENTS MUST DREAD the day they have to post their credit card charges online. Thousands of charges totalling in the millions of dollars, it’s a sure bet someone [Continue]

SNC-LAVALIN – Deferred prosecution deals aren’t get-out-of-jail free cards

March 19, 2019 // 0 Comments

By SUKANYA PILLAY University of Windsor PRIME MINISTER Justin Trudeau’s government remains in hot water over SNC-Lavalin. Even anti-bribery officials from the Organisation [Continue]

SUZUKI – Government should heed Unist’ot’en message about the Earth

March 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

I VISITED the Unist’ot’en camp near Kitimat, B.C., a year ago. The people, led by Chief Freda Huson, are trying to re-establish a sustainable relationship with territory [Continue]

TECHNOLOGY – Municipalities must protect against cyber attacks

February 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

Canadian towns and cities hold valuable data yet are poorly prepared to detect and fend off attacks By FERGUS HODGSON Research Associate Frontier Centre for Public Policy [Continue]

SUZUKI – Winter weather doesn’t disprove global warming

February 6, 2019 // 1 Comment

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]

POLITICS – Trudeau is wrong to back intervention in Venezuela

February 5, 2019 // 2 Comments

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]