About half of Canadians will be looking wistfully toward Iceland where a trial run of a reduced work week has been described as an “overwhelming success” and led to a sea change in the way people do business in the country.
There is so much to hope for in a nuclear future for Canada, and so much to lose if we give in to old fears and new distractions.
Canada’s housing problems stem largely from the unwillingness of municipal governments to allow enough housing to be built quickly enough to accommodate growth.
Ontario wines have been described as “transatlantic,” somewhere between American and French sensibilities. Whatever they are, they’re having a moment.
Blowin’ In The Wind might be considered today to be cultural appropriation. But no one thought like that then.
Reflections on history must always be informed by a desire to seek what is true, and to work towards revealing both the successes and the failures of our collective past.
The pandemic offered Conservatives a chance to robustly defend the use of the institution of government to support families and communities. Instead, they fell back economic conservatism and populist tendencies — and found themselves well outside the mainstream.
The recent decision by Library and Archives Canada to delete a website focused on the prime ministers of this country is just one of the latest examples of a nation uncertain of how to deal with its past.
We used to have election campaigns to guide governing mandates. Too often, we now witness a large share of governing mandates only serving as a set-up for the next election campaign. We used to campaign to govern and now we govern to campaign.
In order to seek out and understand other intelligent life in the universe, our civilization needs to up its game to define a better future.
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