Category: Viewpoint

Viewpoint

Flora Macdonald, from Scottish rebel to loyalist

by Pat Murphy | Feb 3, 2023

Flora Macdonald helped Boonie Prince Charlie escape to France after the disastrous Battle of Culloden

Just Transition comes with big costs

by Franco Terrazzano | Feb 3, 2023
‘Lazy’ millennials will be 75 per cent of the workforce by 2025

by David Fuller | Feb 3, 2023
Bank of Canada’s interest rate strategy is failing Canadians

by David Macdonald | Feb 3, 2023
Canada has the potential to be a natural-gas powerhouse

by Lisa Baiton | Feb 2, 2023
Higher productivity can meet the labour shortage challenge

by Nathalie Elgrably-Levy | Feb 2, 2023

What’s so great about a dead tree?

by Geoff Carpentier

Dead trees are important in our landscape, with many species relying on them for survival

Why can’t Canada be more like Qatar or Norway?

Our dangerous love affair with a ‘top down’ collectivist approach to problem-solving is leading us in the wrong direction

Learning styles myth needs to be rejected once and for all

by Michael Zwaagstra

The learning styles myth perpetuates a falsehood about how students learn

Pierre Trudeau’s last rollercoaster ride

Trudeau’s fourth and final term was to be his most controversial of all

Savana Walkingbear one of Canada’s rising young Indigenous leaders

Working to advance First Nations’ ownership of resource projects

How to resolve the health-care deadlock in Canada

by Bryan Schwartz

The Canada Health Act must permit more room for experimentation and innovation at a provincial level

Medicine shouldn’t just be cheap; it should be accessible

by Krystle Wittevrongel

New drug price guidelines will hinder Canadians access to new and innovative treatments

Grocery receipt mistakes costing Canadians plenty

by Sylvain Charlebois

With food prices the way they are these days, if you see a mistake, don’t hesitate to alert a clerk or manager

Brian Mulroney’s enduring battle against antisemitism

by Michael Taube

His resolve to be ‘on the right side of history’ has never wavered

Russia resistant to economic pressure imposed by sanctions. For now

by Rashid Husain Syed

Could easily employ sanctions-avoiding mechanisms perfected by Iran

Popular historian Paul Johnson dead at 94

An enthusiastic polemicist with no qualms about giving voice to his particular perspective on the world

The “bass-ackward” state of energy transition in Canada

by Bill Whitelaw

Until politicians get out of the driver’s seat, we will never get energy transition right