Awareness fatigue weighing us all down, particularly millennials
They are the gatekeepers of so much change necessary to forge new norms of behaviour and social standards…
Harold Macmillan and the fickleness of history
The onetime British PM’s apparent affable, avuncular nature masked a lethal ruthlessness…
The arc of the moral universe will bend toward justice
Amidst acts of nationalism and racism, it can be difficult to see the fundamental goodness of humanity – but it’s there…
‘Countless white crosses’ a century later
The concept of loyalty to king and empire may be incomprehensible to us, but It was part and parcel of who those young soldiers were…
The truth about the roots of most terrorism
When Muslim attackers and terrorists claim they’re acting to defend and advance Islam, westerners put their fingers in their ears…
Religion helped defeat the first Catholic U.S. presidential contender
Al Smith fell prey to the three Ps – prohibition, prejudice and prosperity – in 1928…
Keep the Bank of Canada out of the digital currency playing field
Central banks – try as they might – can’t create genuine cryptocurrencies and should learn to live with rising competition…
Putting Columbia River salmon restoration at risk
Including Indigenous voices in U.S.-Canada water agreement discussions would give the environment a leading role…
The unwelcome consequences of the collapse of empires
The demise of the German Hohenzollerns led to Hitler, while the collapse of the Austrian Habsburgs gave rise to malignant nationalism…
Canadian competitiveness lags because of U.S. tax reform
According to one report, 635,000 Canadian jobs, $85 billion in GDP and $20 billion in government revenue could be at risk…