Cyril Henry Hoskin, depending on your own sense of charity, was either a shameless con artist or a misguided believer in his own ludicrousness. Eventually making his way to Canada, he found Calgary the only tolerable place in the whole country.
The furor over 15-minute cities is obviously misguided nonsense if you take 15 minutes to look into the matter. But it does show the depressing truth that in our polarized society no subject, no matter how innocent, is free from fearmongering these days.
Hockey is a business, and the NHL would make players pull the Stanley Cup out of a Subway bag if they thought viewers would tolerate it. The league will keep profiting, and Canadians will keep watching.
Canadians pay exorbitant prices to travel or to use our phones simply because the airlines and telecom companies in this country are shielded from any meaningful competition. Their service sucks, their costs soar, and the government stands by and watches.
We can call it a poignant look inside the fishbowl all we like, but it’s clear Prince Harry’s memoir taps into an eternal human need for bitchy gossip. You don’t have to have a strong stance on constitutional monarchy to understand why.
The Canada Health Act transformed medicare. But 38 years on, it’s failing us. A new document to replace the Canada Health Act could be introduced to meet the demands of the 21st century.
Canada’s health-care system that appears to be in meltdown. How the provinces solve this problem, if they solve it, could set the course for Canadian health care for decades to come.
Single-game sports gambling was legalized in 2021, and a deluge of commercials followed. For provinces that provide both a service designed to be addicting and the treatment for that addiction, a dilemma emerges.
Now, over a year after the federal ban on single-game sports betting was lifted, every province except Saskatchewan has added sportsbooks to their digital casinos.
Twenty-three online sportsbooks are jockeying for customers, and their competition is forcing any Canadian watching a Blue Jays, Raptors, or nationally broadcast hockey game to witness the advertising equivalent of carpet bombing.
