Insight

Colin Todhunter — People in the UK, people woke up to their first week of a five-year rule under a Conservative majority government. It’s been the first time the Tories have managed to form such a government since 1992. Only ...

Eric Zuesse — In Odessa — the same city where the Ukrainian civil war started on 2 May 2014 with a massacre of opponents that had been carefully planned by a team connected to the U.S. White House — there ...

Margaret Rao — Canadian Unitarians for Social Justice (CUSJ) has issued a joint statement with 75+ civil society organizations from across the country, including Independent Jewish Voices Canada, the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group, and Confédération des Syndicats Nationaux,condemning the ...

Eric Zuesse — Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has blamed U.S. President Barack Obama for the failure of the recent OAS (Organization of American States) Summit of the Americas to issue a final declaration, and he says that a major sticking point ...

  Bay Street stands as the benchmark address for Canada’s finance, banking and business backbone. But what toll do thousands of trades, transactions and deals have on C-Suite executives and the support staff working long hours to make them happen? ...

It has been nearly six months since Amaya completed the acquisitions of Pokerstars and Full Tilt Poker. At the time, two of the biggest sites in their sector. This is just one of many major deals which have taken place ...

Years ago while in a traveling sales job that I hated, I stopped at a gas station and used the restroom. Someone, annoyed by the wet floors, had scrawled above the urinal: We aim to please. You aim too, please. ...

Robert Evans Wilson, Jr — Mike passed the stack of test papers over his back to me. I lifted one off the top, sniffed the blue mimeograph ink, then passed the rest behind me to Laylah. The teacher instructed us ...

Gideon Forman & Beatrice Olivastri— Back in November, the Ontario government signaled its intention to reduce the use of “neonic” pesticides on corn and soy seed by 80% by 2017. A prime motivator for the proposal was a new analysis ...

According to the National Association of Learning Disabilities: “The average bullying episode lasts only 37 seconds.” However, from my experience, it doesn’t take 37 seconds to say, “You’re gay.” or “You suck.” or “You’re an idiot.” It only takes a ...