Children? No thanks
In 2022, Canada’s birth rate fell to 1.33 children per woman, its lowest on record. This is insufficient to maintain our current population. We are…
What is the real price of your hamburger?
As much as we trust the free market, it isn’t always honest with us. It often tells lies. Big lies. Specifically, it lies about the…
China—climate change leader?
In a recent article, New York Times opinion writer David Wallace-Wells poses the question “What Happens if China Stops Trying to Save the World?” Wallace-Wells…
Will Poilievre do a Thatcher / Reagan on our broadcasting?
We live, we are told, in the Information Age. All the knowledge of humanity is at our fingertips with a mere keystroke. The Internet promise…
Will our technology overwhelm us?
Two articles appearing the same day in The New York Times reminded readers how technology, so generous to our way of life, can turn on…
Singh’s unilateral and questionable action
I received an email message this morning from Jagmeet Singh saying he wanted me to hear directly from him that he had “just ripped up…
Evidence for Democracy (E4D)
Science did not fare well under the Harper government of 2006-15. It eliminated the long-form census, pulled Canada out of the Kyoto protocol, cut science…
We’re flush!
According to Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre “our country is broke.” The Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO), Yves Giroux, says the country can afford to spend much…
Conservatives court Labour
During the recent railway dispute, the federal Conservatives were strangely silent. A work stoppage of any length would have had grave effects on the Canadian…
Premier Smith and the fascist hatemonger
When Alberta NDP leader Naheed Nenshi called Premier Danielle Smith “dangerous,” I thought he was perhaps being overly partisan. That was before I was fully…
Railway relief
Sighs of relief could be heard across the country when federal Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon announced that he was sending the two railway labour disputes…
Is it genocide?
The term “genocide,” like “racism,” is thrown around all too loosely these days. The definition often seems to depend on its user’s biases or design.…