Category: Columnists
Baranyai: Early elections undermine fragile democracy
The whole world is holding its breath. Ballot counts haunt our dreams.
Dyer: Wider Middle East war would make things much worse
Itâs more like a courtship ritual between exotic birds than a 21st-century war.
Cornies: Our need for power, and the nuclear waste it leaves behind
In the end, the result of the vote in South Bruce this week was nearly an even split.
Pearson: Single act of defiance saved the world
It was 62 years ago this month when I looked out our kitchen window in Calgary to see our neighbour operating a backhoe, digging a hole in his backyard.
Oudshoorn: Poverty, addiction, mental illness not causes of homelessness, success is
Visible homelessness persists at crisis levels within London.
Baranyai: Indigenous foster care urgent priority
Itâs a shattering indictment: 16 years after then-prime minister Stephen Harper formally apologized for Canadaâs residential school system â time enough for a generation to reach driving age â there are more Indigenous children and youth in foster care than there were in residential schools at any given time.
Dyer: Netanyahu and Biden; decisions, decisions
Iran’s missile barrage against Israel weeks ago has so far led to no big counterattack, for which Gwynne Dyer argues there are good reasons.
Baranyai: Quebec proposal takes health care rationing to new level
If trying to lure doctors to a community smells desperate, reassigning them has the stench of battlefield medicine, Robin Baranyai argues.
Cornies: How do public-sector executives lose touch with their true purpose?
It’s one of the toughest tricks to master for leaders and boards in the charitable or public-service sectors.
Dyer: Authoritarian regime in China clamping down, but for how long?
We can’t really estimate the likely longevity of the kind of high-tech total surveillance state Xi Jinping is building in China