Half a century ago, our colleges and universities were liberal in their orientations and policies. Generally, they treated students and staff as individuals who were judged by their academic achievements and potentials. (Where they existed, the exceptions were...
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Dependence on any one Foreign Nation is Unhealthy; in the case of China, all too Literally So
Of late, it has been remarked that most of the active ingredients for key pharmaceuticals in North America come from abroad - usually from China; in the case of generics, often from India. In turn, India often imports its key ingredients from China. So, diverting...
A less Naïve Canada on Foreign Policy?
Pope Francis gave a speech recently in which he praised attachment to one’s own culture and place, criticizing global capitalism with its “consumerist vision of human beings” for its “levelling effect on cultures, diminishing the immense variety which is the heritage...
A Proposed Framework for Confronting Future Pandemics, or National Emergencies
As most of the nations of the developed world, including Canada, failed to prepare adequately for the current deadly COVID-19 pandemic, questions remain about what steps should be taken to forestall, or substantially mitigate the next microbial conflagration. While...
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The Rise of Zombies in the Wake of COVID-19
We are spending double the amount of time on our streaming platforms compared to last year, close to 45.4 billion minutes spent on Netflix alone in the first few weeks of March 2020. Movie titles such as: 28 Weeks Later (2007), Quarantine (2008), Carriers (2009), and...
Successful Integration Experiences From Around the World
In his paper “Successful Integration Experiences From Around the World”, Joseph Quesnel examines the response of three diverse countries to the economic and social challenges facing their Indigenous populations: Mexico with its Meso-American peoples, the Japanese with...
Living in Interesting Energy Times
If Manitoba priced its hydro-electric resource at market rates, it would garner about a billion dollars more in annual revenues.
Should We Ban Chemotherapy, Too?
Refusing to use insecticides to fight Africa’s malaria problem sentences needless millions to death.
Does PM Really Want to End Native Poverty?
Paul Martin proposes a “Marshall Plan” for aboriginals. But First Nations need more than more cash.
They need to learn to appreciate life
More than 60 kids under 18 are addicted to sniffing gasoline, accounting for more than half the school-age kids who live on the reserve
Who will help the kids?
Welcome to Pauingassi First Nation, located on the edge of nowhere. Half the kids here are gasoline sniffers. Their one hope is a social worker who's fighting to save them. He needs help because he's losing the battle PAUINGASSI -- Eric Kennedy sits on the sofa in his...
A Year of Zero Tax Reductions
The Tax Load Index offers a simple measure of tax competitiveness across western Canada and adjacent jurisdictions, including Ontario and four American border states, North Dakota and Minnesota, Montana and Washington.
To Spray or Not To Spray
Malathion is a safe response to the West Nile virus. It presents no threat to man or beast.
Mosquito Control With Malathion: Are There Public Health Consequences?
The spraying of malathion to control mosquitoes is a safe, effective means of preventing the spread of disease.
Jurassic Twilight – Farm Monopolists
DINOSAURS live. Two have been roaming the Canadian prairies and parts of Australia, respectively, for decades, and are still at it: the two countries' legally enforced wheat-export monopolies. But till when? American farmers think it is time they were extinct. They...