Does the prime minister wield too much power? Is our skilled immigration policy in need of major reform? What role do museums play in Canadian society? Could Healthy Living Vouchers help in the battle against obesity? These are the questions posed by the four finalists competing for the $50,000 2011/2012...
(1) Comments | Posted March 27, 2012 | 11:37 AM
Did you ever wonder what DSK was doing in his room
When the maid came in with her duster and broom?
Was it something unspeakably common and low
For that seemingly upper crust Socialist pro?
He could have been reading a library...
(3) Comments | Posted December 11, 2011 | 11:20 PM
As waistlines around the world bulge, there is an abiding grassroots advocacy for government to do something -- anything! -- to fix the obesity crisis. Imposing a fat tax on foods, specifically sugary drinks, is one politically fashionable idea. Now a number of provinces are poised to introduce legislation that...
Comments | Posted December 7, 2011 | 7:53 AM
Why is it that I'm increasingly asked -- by people working in large Canadian corporations -- to help them find care for themselves or for their loved ones who are depressed or suicidal? I'm not a doctor. My sole qualification to help anyone in such circumstances is thin: I'm the...
(4) Comments | Posted December 2, 2011 | 8:06 AM
Given the lack of contrarian postpartisan ideas in Canadian and U.S. politics today, I would recommend taxpayers everywhere to revisit a 2007 book edited by iconoclast John Brockman that asks the question: "What is your dangerous idea?"
The book invited more than 100...
(12) Comments | Posted November 27, 2011 | 11:33 PM
In 1997, sociologist Nathan Glazer declared, "we are all multiculturalists now." By this he meant that the so-called "melting pot" had dissolved as a binding construct for Americans; multiculturalism had displaced assimilation.
We are at a similar moment of reckoning in Canadian health care. While there remains a...
Comments | Posted November 22, 2011 | 11:37 PM
Why are looming holidays a time of such stress?
This is an issue that's hard to assess
It could be the flu
That's making us stew
But are there some other good grounds for distress?
A person I know at his family feast
Finds that...
(6) Comments | Posted November 15, 2011 | 4:09 PM
The measure of success in the war on terror is the absence of a terrorist attack. So said Professor Loch K. Johnson of the University of Georgia in his keynote address at the 2011 CASIS International Conference on security and intelligence held Nov. 9-10 in Ottawa.
Is...
Comments | Posted April 23, 2012 | 12:00 AM