Food banks permanent feature of Canadian landscape
Food Banks Canada's annual report paints a discouraging picture: more Canadians visited food banks this…
Intuition may not add up, but it works
What works better: emotion or logic? Revelation or rationality? Intuition or algorithms? I started thinking…
Remembrance Day: The Homefront in Alberta
While the Second World War was hard on the men and women fighting on the front…
Food fraud days are numbered
Date tampering in food stores is in the news again, and horrified consumers want to…
Rise of the gluten-free heroes
Gluten has divided consumers into two camps: those who can't get enough gluten-free products, believing…
Canada has one of the highest rates of kids in care in the world
By Marni Brownell Associate professor University of Manitoba What happens when authorities determine that children…
Canadian transcontinental railroad 130 years old Nov 7
The public mood was optimistic when I first came to Canada, what with the impending…
When it comes to pharmacare, be careful what you wish for
Almost 60 per cent of respondents to a recent poll thought that a national Pharmacare…
Twilight of the baby boomers
The unthinkable has happened: in two successive Canadian elections, unproven and much younger left-leaning political…
We need a radical new approach for kids in care
By Marni Brownell Assistant professor University of Manitoba Six advocates for First Nations children have…