Spring has finally arrived on campus, and graduation exercises are in full swing. It is a wonderful time with students dressed in black caps and gowns and their parents dressed in formal attire. Everyone is smiling as the graduates mount the stage to receive their...
In September 2018, the Office of Academic Indigenization provided Mount Royal University (MRU) faculty with a document entitled “Indigenizing Mount Royal’s Curricula: A Call For Engagement.” This document affirmed MRU’s “commit[ment] to indigenizing its curricula to...
There has been a lot of concern and digital ink spilled over the slow increase in living standards of the average, or ‘median’, Canadian over the past ten, twenty, thirty, forty or more years. In the long run, economists say that the key to increasing real, i.e.,...
The standard of living of Canada’s population is not growing as quickly as per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The reason for that is our dollar has been declining in relative terms against the currency of our biggest trading partner, the United States. While...
Death rates in countries that rely on hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for the treatment of Covid-19 appear to be dramatically lower than death rates in countries that discourage the use of the drug. A new study claims that the death rate in the countries that used HCQ early...
The word “radiation” conjures up images of the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima or the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. Our society has a strong, and not unreasonable, fear of nuclear radiation, that has been built up over years of stories. Starting with...
Paul Martin proposes a “Marshall Plan” for aboriginals. But First Nations need more than more cash.
“Canadians continue to not get value for their money,” said Nadeem Esmail, co-author of the report, released yesterday by the Fraser Institute think-tank.
Forget the notion of Canadian history as a long succession of government interventions. Private initiatives and individual liberties forged this country.
The latest study claims average premiums were calculated after compiling 3,776,997 rate quotes. But as it would take a small army to collect, process, create a proper statistical model and properly analyze what’s fed into it, the study prompts the question of whether the work was done properly.
Another story has been unfolding, not as dramatic as the ending of an entire political and economic system but still of great long-term significance
After social engineering collapsed their economy, the Innu finally had new hope. But someone made off with the cash.
New legislation that allows doctors more latitude in prescribing alternative medicines expands the consumer focus of healthcare.
A longer version of AV019 fleshes out the details of band politics at the Waterhen.
PARTS of the UK are as dependent on the state as some Soviet bloc countries were at the time communism collapsed, a new analysis based on official figures shows.