Views from the Beltline

In times of economic crisis, an old but good idea to maintain employment is revived. COVID has brought just such a revival. With unemployment in…

Our premier and I come at politics from such different angles, it always comes as a surprise to me when I find myself agreeing with…

A recent Pew Research Center survey of 14 advanced countries indicated that most people (a median of 73 percent) believe their country has done a…

Every Canadian concerned about the quality of democracy in this country frets about the inability of our electoral system to do the thing it exists…

Of all the damage that Donald Trump has managed to do in the last four years, the most serious is his assault on the environment.…

According to the Global Footprint Network, August 22nd was Earth Overshoot Day. The day “marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services…

Seventy-five years ago yesterday, at 8:15 in the morning, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The fireball charred every…

Once an enterprise Canadians went to war for, the British Empire is now in disgrace. And no wonder. It owns many sins. The Atlantic slave…

What is historical truth? To get at the truth of history, we must know it and we must understand it, and these are two very…

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…

I am a very lucky human being. I was born into the greatest period for a member of Homo sapiens to be alive, the peak…

Amazon is a corporation famous for a number of things: revolutionizing retail, making its founder and CEO the world's richest man, and creating workplaces that…