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.
Is fine wine was going the way of the performing arts? Is it losing the interest of young people and becoming merely the pastime of the elderly? Not so fast.
Controversial amendments to Bill C-21 have been withdrawn after major opposition, with the Liberal government backtracking its own rhetoric on the issue. And yet even still, the bill in its current state misses the mark in two fundamental ways.
If one strips back the political hyperbole, the crux of the federal-provincial deal is itself not that big of a deal. And that’s actually a good thing.
Campus culture in Canada is increasingly overrun with political and identity-based polarization. But fret not. In the real world, there are vanguards of reason among us: newcomers.
Bilingual education controversies in New Brunswick can be managed, but how you consult with the public is key.
Absolving policymakers of responsibility for bad policymaking weakens support for democratic institutions at a time when we should be looking to strengthen them. And accepting that our governments can’t do better absolves policymakers of responsibility.
Pandemic pressures combined with population aging have brought many provincial health systems to the edge. But there is only so much the federal government can do to help.
Conservatism is the recognition that there is a true nature of things, a really existing, unchanging human nature, and a subsequently fitting order for human organization. Conservatism then proposes that this true nature of things is not invented but discovered.
There seems to be a temptation inherent in contrarianism that, if indulged, can produce a mental inversion that leaves you at odds not just with your society but with reality itself. Anyone whose job involves attracting attention can fall prey to this weakness.
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