Drunk driving ruling has wide implications
Drinking and driving is a particularly reprehensible crime and, rightly, often earns stiff punishment. In a recent, high-profile Toronto-area case, for instance, Marco Muzzo was handed a 10-year prison...
View ArticleBloop of Earls shown no social media mercy
Social media is proving to be an excellent business tool.
View ArticleOntario climate plan signals stormy future
Premier Kathleen Wynne is preparing to impose another suite of climate-related energy policies on the province. The Climate Change Action Plan promises to be even more expensive and more economically...
View ArticleTime to ban asbestos in construction, auto
The federal government's single largest contribution to the overall health -- and future well-being -- of Canadians could come from a plan to ban the use of asbestos in construction products and...
View ArticleElectoral reform not an easy path
Single transferable vote. Preferential ballot. Mixed member proportional representation. First past the post. Have we lost you yet?
View ArticleShould reform make voting mandatory?
In a recent report, Chief Electoral Officer of Canada Marc Mayrand wrote that the 2015 election was "historic" in many ways. It was the first fixed-date federal election. It sprawled over the longest...
View ArticleRebuilding Fort Mac an enormous task
The logistics of evacuating more than 88,000 from Fort McMurray last week were complicated. The work to get them all safely back home in the weeks ahead will be labyrinthine.
View ArticleGrits' natural gas ban would prove costly
There's a reason 76% of Ontario's residents use natural gas to heat their homes. The fuel is convenient, efficient and in recent years inexpensive when compared to other energy sources.
View ArticleUN declaration vow leaves a lot unsaid
Depending on whom you ask, Canada's newly stated promise to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is either a catastrophe that will cripple our resource economy...
View ArticleApology helps us learn from historic wrongs
Justin Trudeau last week became the third prime minister in recent history to use the floor of the House of Commons to offer a much overdue formal apology to families of Asian groups hurt by Canada's...
View ArticleCourage, Gord. And Grace, too.
A few weeks ago, I had an inclination to write an editorial about the stellar performance and community-ratifying event that The Tragically Hip brought to the Wiarton-Keppel Airport in the summer of...
View Article'Ranch time' request reflects national need
In early 1981, just two months after his election as U.S. president, Ronald Reagan was examining a crowded weekly schedule that had been developed by his White House staff, and he pointed to an omission.
View ArticleTories' convention beat out Liberals
It was quite a contrast to watch the Liberal and Conservative conventions unfold last week.
View ArticleBernier's milk stance well worth cryin' over
Maxime Bernier is sticking with his principles, even if those principles would require dismantling an agricultural system that has mostly served Canadian producers and their consumers well.
View ArticleNew road needed in Fort Mac rebuild
There is a mountain of post-wildfire rebuilding ahead for Fort McMurray. But at least one change should be added: road access into and around this important northern city.
View ArticleHelp families grow by reducing costs
Canadians still greatly value family life. And they want to have more children. But money matters are holding them back.
View ArticlePreparedness lesson from Fort Mac crisis
With northern Alberta still reeling from the wildfire that forced evacuation of Fort McMurray and area, the federal environment commissioner this week released a report that Canada is not adequately...
View ArticleGrits' bungling root of wind farm friction
It's been almost 10 years since the first wind turbines began to sprout in rural Ontario, and at first they had few if any detractors. Wind represented a clean future; Ontario would pattern itself...
View ArticleOntario's action plan good, bad, costly
Ontario's Climate Change Action Plan was released Wednesday after weeks of leaked tidbits (and some misinformation) about its contents.
View ArticleGender neutral words start of anthem rejig
Should Canada rush to change the words of its national anthem simply to honour a popular MP suffering from a terminal illness?
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