Other Voices

SUZUKI – Wildfires are a wake-up call about the reality of climate change

August 16, 2017 // 1 Comment

WILDFIRES ARE sweeping B.C. Close to 900 have burned through 600,000 hectares so far this year, blanketing western North America with smoke. Fighting them has cost more than [Continue]

NAFTA – Renegotiations threaten Canada’s steps toward pharmacare

August 13, 2017 // 2 Comments

By RUTH LOPERT and STEVE MORGAN EvidenceNetwork.ca A “MODERNIZED NAFTA” has significant implications for many sectors of the economy, including health care. What’s at [Continue]

CHIDIAC – High grades for Canadian students, high praise for their teachers

August 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

A RECENT BBC article called Canada “an education superpower.” It referred to the fact that, in recent years, Canadian students’ results in literacy, mathematics and [Continue]

SUZUKI – We only have one Earth, and we’re overshooting its capacity

August 9, 2017 // 3 Comments

AUGUST 2 was Earth Overshoot Day. Unlike Earth Day or Canada Day, it’s not a time to celebrate. As the Earth Overshoot Day website explains, it marks the time when “we [Continue]

HEALTH – Charlie Gard and the metaphor of medical ‘warfare’

August 8, 2017 // 1 Comment

By IAN MITCHELL and JULIET GUICHON University of Calgary THE METAPHOR of battling illness is common but pernicious. The recent news of U.S. Sen. John McCain’s brain cancer [Continue]

BUSINESS – Air Canada’s lesson in how not to communicate with customers

August 5, 2017 // 1 Comment

By DAVID FULLER PRINCE GEORGE – “Why are you making us do this?” the lady screeched to the Air Canada check-in attendant at the Dublin Airport recently. “I’ve never [Continue]