Other Voices

PIPELINE – Hurdles never seem to end for the Trans Mountain project

September 4, 2018 // 1 Comment

The long, convoluted path to rejection demonstrates an approval process that is fundamentally flawed on so many levels By LEE HARDING Research Fellow Frontier Centre for [Continue]

GUEST – Do facts matter? Raising the level of debate over our voting system

September 2, 2018 // 7 Comments

In July I wrote an editorial about a presentation by Dr. Dennis Pilon of York University in which he supported proportional representation. He took exception to the editorial [Continue]

SUZUKI – Climate change combines with other factors to fuel wildfires

August 29, 2018 // 3 Comments

SCIENTISTS, JOURNALISTS, environmentalists and others who draw the connection between increasing wildfires and global warming often face a backlash. It’s not climate [Continue]

KURL – Sorry, Maxime Bernier, I’m not part of a diversity ‘cult’

August 21, 2018 // 2 Comments

THERE’S A PHOTOGRAPH in a small gold frame nestled in a large wall unit at my parents’ house. In it, two people stand. There’s a formal distance between them, yet [Continue]

THE CONVERSATION – Fighting historic wildfires amid bad ideas and no funding

August 14, 2018 // 0 Comments

By EDWARD STRUZIK Queen’s University, Ontario SHORTLY AFTER my book “Firestorm, How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future” was published in late 2017, I received a flurry [Continue]

THE CONVERSATION – Both countries are wrong in Saudi-Canada spat

August 10, 2018 // 1 Comment

By HOUSSEM BEN LAZREG University of Alberta THE SUDDEN AND UNEXPECTED diplomatic crisis between Canada and Saudi Arabia has raised questions about their levels of bilateral [Continue]