Insight

Voter poll: Canada OK, Trudeau not so much

Public support for the Trudeau government’s performance is softening, but Canadians are feeling upbeat about the image our country is projecting in the world. This year’s Nanos-IRPP Mood of Canada survey found that 63 percent of Canadians think the country’s ...

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Aleppo Christmas celebration after 5-year hiatus

Syrian Christians jubilantly prepare publicly for Aleppo Christmas for the first time in five years. Absent are the cameras from the western media. The good news is that Aleppo has been successfully liberated. About 100,000 civilians have been freed from ...

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Inspiration can come in the unlikeliest of places

In this case, it came at Lee’s Palace. The Toronto club was dark, sweaty and noisy—as all such clubs should be—as Chicago’s Off With Their Heads stepped onto the puny stage before a few hundred tattooed, leather-jacketed punks.inspiration Off With ...

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These stories will change your beliefs about luck

Is it possible to influence luck? Eight-year-old Julie Amberg was excited when her Aunt Nancy showed up to visit. Nancy, however, wanted some adult time with her sister, so she sent Julie on a mission. “Go outside and see if you ...

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We cannot afford the cost of ignoring poverty

As a family doctor who works largely with people living on low incomes, poverty is at the root of many of the illnesses I treat. And, a dozen or so years into my career, my workload shows no sign of ...

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Ontario wellbeing index still in the dumps

To help answer the question, “How are we really doing?” the  Ontario Trillium Foundation – an agency of the Government of Ontario and one of Canada’s largest granting foundations – commissioned the Canadian Index of Wellbeing, which is down, to ...

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New devices catch high drivers: police in testing phase

Hanna Anderson— Marijuana is becoming more widespread across the world with more countries passing the legislation making it legal. But, when one country makes that kind of substance legal for recreational use, it usually triggers the increase of marijuana-impaired driving. ...

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Carbon pricing a triumph of ideology over reason

Canada’s political and business leaders are pursuing an emissions-reduction (carbon) agenda that will harm our nation’s citizens and our economy. And it’s an agenda that defies prevailing world trends. The COP 22 Marrakech Climate Change Conference began on Nov. 7 ...

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Electoral reform promise is too easily broken

Now that the federal Liberals have regained power and lost their zeal for democratic reform, it’s a really good time to restart the conversation. Because now we can be a bit more objective about [electoral reform] whether changing the way ...

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The frenzied barking of dissent without substance

A friend’s dog runs off in a frenzy, barking wildly, when anyone utters the word “bunny.” It’s the emotive, reactive response of an animal with a limited faculty to filter stimulus and information. jail notley? The human equivalent, in 2016 ...

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