Our political leaders are afraid to confront Canadians with the challenges we face for a better future
The big issues facing Canada will likely be sidelined since neither Liberals nor Conservatives want to face up to them even though this country’s future is really what the election should be about. Will we end up with disenchanted voters, worn out by partisan half-truths and efforts to demonize political opponents, and a low voter turnout?
This is your wakeup call to catastrophic climate change
GIBSONS, B.C.—This is a stunning occurrence and an off-the-chart record. A tenth of a degree increase in a temperature record like this would be remarkable, but this lack of real winter in Canada broke the previous record by more than a full degree. For comparison, an individual’s rise in temperature by the same amount would […]
Screen time the most harmful health crisis since youth smoking
How a Health Canada national awareness campaign on the negative impacts of devices and social media addiction can make a difference.
Stop the Munich analogies
To argue that a ‘Great War is coming,’ the doom-mongers have to pretend that such a war will be necessary to stop the Russians.
Poilievre, Trudeau choose partisan politicking over action on NSICOP report
Rather than act expeditiously on the advice of intelligence agencies, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plays partisan games, and has politicized the foreign interference file.
Resetting society’s compassion agenda
The world’s collective conscience is demanding a giant reset of the compassion agendas of our top private and public institutions. A generative compassion approach looks at the bigger picture and aggressively asks the question: what more needs to be done to prevent more harm from occurring?
Where does Canada stand on geoengineering? Nobody knows
Canada can use the wait-and-see approach, or we can use our reputation as a middle power to be an honest broker on this emerging technological issue.
Occupational therapists deserve to be eligible for Canada Student Loan forgiveness
As health-care needs increase in rural and remote Canada, the federal government must do more to encourage occupational therapists to move to these communities.
G7 summit is the time for leaders to deliver on child labour commitments
Despite goals to eliminate child labour by 2025, there are tens of millions of children exploited in the G7 nations’ supply chains, and forced labour has increased in the last decade.
Emmanuel Macron’s strategy
Emmanuel Macron must realize that a crisis over mass migration to Europe is coming soon, driven by global warming. Temperatures in Greece, southern Italy and southern Spain are already hitting 40°C—but that’s nothing compared to the mercury reaching 50°C in India, Pakistan, and the Middle East.
