Here’s why the best rosé isn’t actually a rosé
In just two decades, rosé has gone from a niche product to an established one. It’s become unremarkable to be offered a glass of rosé in the backyard of a friend.
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Ken Boessenkool: The time has come for a new family agenda
In the coming decades, Conservatives must apply the tried-and-true agenda of free markets, subsidiarity and comparative advantage to a new priority: strengthening Canadian families.
Matt Spoke: Canada should make a huge bet on Bitcoin as the next dominant currency
The first country to acquire one percent of the total supply of Bitcoin will likely be the only country ever able to do so. As with discovering the world’s rarest mineral deposit in your soil, Bitcoin has the power to make poor countries rich and rich countries irrelevant.
Geoff Costeloe: The future of finance is decentralized. Will Canada keep up?
With all this growth and promise in digital assets, where are our regulators and tax authorities? Nowhere to be seen. Does any government, provincial or federal, have a serious plan to face this financial upheaval? It would seem the answer is no.
Ginny Roth: We may have to empathize with NIMBYs to solve the housing shortage
A viable plan must not seek to slip through development approvals without the neighbourhood noticing, nor should it ram through major policy overhauls against the wishes of voters only to have them overturned when a new government gets elected on a promise to bring back local control.
Caroline Elliott: Identity politics are unhelpful in the fight against injustice
The growth of identity politics in mainstream discourse threatens to replace the cohesive power of commonality with a politics of resentment. This only deepens our divides, undercutting progress from a time when diversity wasn’t valued and otherness was a sure path to exclusion.
Livio Di Matteo: The real victims of wealth inequality? It’s not the middle class
Canada has seen the wealth share of the top 10 percent decline while that of the next 40 percent has increased. What is truly remarkable is how poorly the bottom 50 percent have done over time, with their share remaining practically constant at under 10 percent.
Greg Boland: Regulation is urgent and necessary in the digital media age
Make no mistake, the government’s Bill C-10 is a misguided paternalistic attempt to shape and control media consumption in Canada. But don’t let that argument distract us from the real problems we are facing in the digital media age.
Peter Copeland: Progress is much more than outcomes — it is the quality of life
The gap in the Enlightenment story is that the good things in life are not found in the amount of a thing possessed, or the raw, abstract ability to choose from a dizzying array of possibilities, but in the quality of a life lived.
Sean Speer: There is no room for nuance in the shameful legacy of residential schools
The basic idea to remove and isolate children from the influence of their families in order to “get rid of the Indian problem” was wicked and bad.
