Michel Kelly-Gagnon

The weeks surrounding spring break see floods of Canadian tourists flocking to Cuba, one of our most popular vacation destinations. Each year more than a million of us visit its beautiful beaches, more than from any other country.

Sadly, few of those tourists ever leave their vacation...

There is a fairly widespread mentality in journalistic circles that goes something like this: Anything that is funded by, or associated with, the for-profit world of private industry is to be greeted with the utmost scepticism and should prima facie be considered false, unless proven otherwise.

Conversely, any claims made...

Erasmia Dimoula is a 25-year-old woman from Greece. I have never met her or spoken with her. I learned from an published in the National Post a couple of weeks ago that she is a nursery school teacher -- or rather, that she trained to be...

New rules for the Canada and Quebec Pension Plans will take effect in the new year, mostly to make it more advantageous for us to work longer and defer collecting benefits, and consequently keep the plans solvent for longer. Meanwhile, a more fundamental debate about their future is gathering speed.

As the remaining Occupy campsites in Canadian cities are being dismantled, it is hard to pinpoint any achievement the movement will have been responsible for. Reading the recent headlines, I wonder however if some of the protesters will not be leaving Victoria Square in Montreal with a renewed appreciation of...

Privacy is logically a matter of individual conscience. It belongs to every individual to decide what he considers part of his private life and how much of it he is willing to expose to others.

When you invite a friend into your home, when you walk in the street,...

Those who live in Quebec have probably seen the "golden meters" publicity campaign from Hydro-Québec's union, which opposes the introduction of electricity meters allowing consumption to be read remotely. There's also a coalition (the "Sans-Chemise") that demands changes to employment insurance during federal election campaigns, or...

This week, parliament resumed in Ottawa, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper declared that he would be making the economy his priority. Now, his minister for small business, my friend Maxime Bernier, just happens to have in his hands an important report from the Red...

The fight against fat is shaping up, quickly replacing the war against tobacco, which has largely been won.

There is no dispute that obesity is a serious health problem with adverse consequences on people's quality of life and longevity. In a perfect world, perhaps everyone would have an ideal...

Following weeks of negotiations and dire predictions in the media, a deal adopted by the U. S. Congress and signed by President Obama on Aug. 2 will see the federal debt ceiling in the United States raised by at least $2,100 billion from its current limit of $14,300 billion. It...

The popular discontent of the last few months is certainly understandable. Although the Greek government spent beyond its means for years, people want their promised benefits, nothing less. What is less understandable is what seems to be a widespread belief among Greeks that the citizens are neither responsible nor have...

The Disney-Pixar film Cars 2 has recently been released and my four-year-old son and I went to see it a few days ago. Like the previous installment, it is very well done.

Loosely inspired by the James Bond concession spy, Cars 2 is the story of Mater, a rusted tow...

Do you trust yourself to make the best decisions in your own interest when it comes to what you eat, what you drink, and all the various products that you buy on the market?

If so, you must be deluded.

Otherwise, why would the government and various groups...