Nov 18 2013
| Canada's macroeconomy continues to be lethargic at best, and there is growing recognition that the continuing sluggishness of business capital spending is a big part of the reason why.
Nov 15 2013
| I enter the Rob Ford discussion solely for what we can learn from it; not, God forbid, because it's totally, morbidly mesmerizing.
Nov 15 2013
| The federal and Ontario environment commissioners recently released reports assessing progress -- or lack thereof -- in biodiversity and species at risk conservation.
Nov 14 2013
| Racism is not new to Canada. But in the last 40 years with the landing of new waves of non-Caucasian immigrants, racism has taken a new direction, confronting new targets.
Nov 14 2013
| The reason Mayor Rob Ford is unfit for office is not just that he has personal problems he must fix up. It's his insatiable hunger for power by any means necessary.
Nov 14 2013
| The changing seas that this week have whipped the Philippines demand a sea change in the worldwide response to global warming.
Nov 13 2013
| If global carbon emissions continue to rise at their current rate, humanity will eventually be left with no other option than a costly, world war-like mobilization, scientists warned this week.
Nov 12 2013
| If democracy is ultimately to prevail and if the values of Canadians are to find their way once again into public policy we need to move beyond Stephen Harper and pay attention to the other players.
Nov 12 2013
| It has become increasingly apparent that a main outcome of Harper's Conservative Party has been to bury the doctrine that animated Conservative party leaders before Harper: Canadian conservatism.
Nov 12 2013
| At the recent Convention of the Congress of Union Retirees of Canada, we wanted to find out from delegates what their union had meant to them.
Nov 8 2013
| I find the presence of Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn on the free speech podium puzzling. I'm for free speech up to and including outright hate. But the heroization is irritating.
Nov 8 2013
| National security and protection of the nation have been the traditional heavyweight excuses provided by governments that use torture, but there is more behind the justification of unethical methods.
Nov 7 2013
| Election Day should not be the end of people's campaigns for change. It simply indicates a door has been opened a crack.
Nov 7 2013
| While corporate lobbyists and free market economists promote the view that deregulation creates jobs, neither evidence nor common sense support this view.
Nov 6 2013
| Robert Redford's latest film "All is Lost" asks: how does a man survive when he loses all of the illusions and accoutrements that keep him afloat?
