Rumors abound about "slumlords," as there are landlords that fail to meet the basic needs of their renters and are driven solely by profit. But landlords can also be your average pensioner or middle-income couple, and they have their own stories to share of...
Brianna Heinrichs
It’s in the Public Interest to Pay Attention to Landlords’ Needs
Rumors abound about "slumlords," as there are landlords that fail to meet the basic needs of their renters and are driven solely by profit. But landlords can also be your average pensioner or middle-income couple, and they have their own stories to share of bad...
Teacher Tenure Rules Can Harm Children
An important and historical court case recently concluded in California that has implications for Canadian public schools. In Vergara v. California [2014], the Superior Court for Los Angeles ruled that some of the state’s teacher tenure, dismissal, and layoff laws are...
Labour Laws Are Hampering Young People
Labour laws are meant to protect workers from exploitation and to ensure their safety, but closer examination shows that when it comes to teenagers, the laws are not always doing people a favour. Age restrictions for workers vary from province to province. In 2008,...
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There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
New prostitution laws aren’t just a federal concern
Reactions to the federal government’s introduction of new prostitution laws are mixed, with some praising the Nordic-style ban on buying sex and others saying this approach entails the same risk of harm to sex workers that caused the Supreme Court to strike down the...
Drill, Baby, Drill! Standing Up for Oil Development Offshore
Offshore oil exploration has been banned in British Columbia since the early 1970s. To this day, despite talk of making Canada an “energy superpower”, the federal government and provincial government have failed to lift the moratorium, treating the issue as a...
What the Frac is Fracking?
The word “fracking” sends chills down some people’s spines and even causes hysteria in some environmental activist circles. But not many people are informed about what fracking actually entails. The oil industry needs to communicate to the public what fracking means...
Oil sands not an economy environment trade-off
The shrill, endless denunciations of the “tar sands” across North America, and indeed around the world, have largely overshadowed any communications efforts by the oil industry to show that the oil sands are benefiting Canadians and being developed in a responsible...
Oil is Good, and Pipelines are Even Better
Opponents of oil pipelines, such as the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to the U.S. Gulf Coast, have arguably caused unnecessary harm to the environment, reduced public safety, and slowed the Canadian economy. They have done this by causing oil to be shipped through...
“Home-schooled” is not synonymous with “socially awkward”
For a number of people, school is as much about socialization as it is about education. It is for this reason they don’t consider home-schooling a viable option. At times, home-schooling may be correlated with a person's discomfort in social settings, but in many...
Universities need more accountability, not more money
Attending university is a significant financial investment for Canadian students—and their parents. Over the last 20 years, tuition fees have increased, on average, by a whopping 215 per cent while the Consumer Price Index has increased by 43...