What’s with our unhappy youth?
Why are old Canadians so happy and young Canadians so unhappy? That’s the story the World Happiness Report (WHR) tells us. Every year the report…
… a Bill Longstaff blog
Why are old Canadians so happy and young Canadians so unhappy? That’s the story the World Happiness Report (WHR) tells us. Every year the report…
Witnessing the current state of affairs in our great neighbour to the south, the word polarization leaps to the tongue. In a previous post I…
No society has ever created wealth like the United States. And no other society does today. Its dynamic capitalism with freer markets and smaller welfare…
I confess to being a history buff. I am a member of Canada's History Society who avidly reads each issue of the society’s journal, Canada’s…
I rarely do book reviews. Nor do I often suggest books to read. But every once in a while I come across one that is…
Always on the alert for good news, my attention was piqued recently by some stats released by the Angus Reid Institute. The numbers derived from…
We are all tribal. We don’t have a choice. We are designed that way. Our architects—our genes—design us to be biased toward fellow members of…
F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time…
When RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki was asked if her force was systemically racist, she replied that she believed unconscious bias existed in the force but…