Year: 2018

Profile Series: April Tinhorn

Profile Series: April Tinhorn

For Native American entrepreneur April Tinhorn, 43, working successfully in Indian Country is all about building and sustaining relationships with clients. “In working with tribal communities, it’s all about relationships. We are all about that and those relationships...

Day School ‘Survivors’

Day School ‘Survivors’

A class-action lawsuit against the federal government is underway for Indigenous students who attended day schools. It seeks damages for every Indigenous student who attended, an estimated 100,000 such people are alive. The lawsuit could result in a payout of at least...

The Corporate Welfare Rip Off

The Corporate Welfare Rip Off

What do the federal government, responsibility, and transparency have in common? When it comes to handing money to corporations, not much. Working class Canadians watch helplessly as their hard-earned money is taxed away to be put into the laps of large businesses-...

The Death of Forgiveness

The Death of Forgiveness

In 1961 John Profumo, Minister of War in the British government and a married man, conducted a brief, tawdry affair with teenage party girl Christine Keeler. Among Miss Keeler’s other lovers was Yevgeni Ivanov, a Soviet military attaché and intelligence agent. When...

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Strike Before the Crumble

COVID-19 has left a gaping hole in Quebec’s healthcare system. Lack of nursing personnel, testing shortages, overflooding hospitals and postponed surgeries have turned Quebec’s healthcare into complete chaos. "We must invest in the health-care system, which is in the...

Let a Thousand Capital Markets Bloom

Alarm bells ought to be ringing in Canada. Business, industrial and foreign direct investment have performed pitifully over the past decade, with no reason to believe there will be a turnaround any time soon. As noted by Steven Globerman of Western Washington...

We Mustn’t Judge, Must We?

We Mustn’t Judge, Must We?

The young homeowner was in bed with his wife when the telephone rang. Sleepily he lifted the receiver to hear: “Sir, this is Sergeant Preston from Security. I thought you should know that there has been a property invasion in the neighbourhood and the perpetrators are...

China’s Ban Reveals Recycling Weakness

China’s Ban Reveals Recycling Weakness

Recently, China decided what goes around doesn’t have to come around—at least not around there. As 2017 came to and end, so did Chinese imports of most recyclables, leading to a tough time for Canadian recyclers. Not surprisingly, it also revealed many weaknesses in...

Trial by Tweet

Trial by Tweet

If anyone doubted that the #MeToo movement has ushered in a revolution, the political execution of Patrick Brown should put those doubts to rest. As in all revolutions, not all the heads that  fall into the basket deserve to be there, the Madame Defarge’s of this...

More Canadian History Needed In Schools

More Canadian History Needed In Schools

Last fall, the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario demanded that John A. Macdonald’s name be stricken from all public schools in the province. More recently, Halifax’s city council voted to remove the Edward Cornwallis statue that had stood downtown since 1931....

Who Should Dole Out Justice?

Who Should Dole Out Justice?

The jury trial of Gerald Stanley for the murder of Colten Boushie marks a new development in criminal law. The trial itself was not unusual, a jury heard the evidence, deliberated, and acquitted the Saskatchewan farmer. It’s what followed the acquittal that is...