In April, Ryan Keeping will start a run across Canada to raise money for research. He aims to cover almost two marathons a day for 99 days
Category: Commentary
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Editorial: Why IVF treatment should be publicly funded
Healthcare funding is always a question of trade-offs. The government cannot fund everything. But the arguments for funding IVF are clear
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Editorial: Hysteria over Ottawa’s CEBA deadline not justified
The suggestion that businesses face an existential threat due to Ottawa’s January CEBA deadline is not borne out by the facts
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Editorial: Canada’s population growth strains its social services
Transit systems, places of worship and libraries are increasingly managing homelessness, which is an offshoot of unmanaged immigration
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Having relaxed its drug laws, BC may be unable to tighten them
A court injunction that blocks BC from prohibiting hard drug use in most public spaces could have vast and counterproductive implications for drug policy
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Canadian schools need to get serious about cellphone bans
Canadian students’ declining academic performance should be cause for alarm. Stronger cellphone bans would address a key cause
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A (half) year in review
We happened to have launched Canadian Affairs at the worst possible time one could start a news outlet. And we’re glad we did
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Ottawa spends billions on dental care, ignores prevention
An astonishing 61 per cent of Canadians do not have access to fluoride-treated water, which reduces teeth decay. This needs to change
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Letter to the Editor regarding schools’ anti-bullying practices
My daughter’s school was all talk and no action when my child was being bullied
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Author Roy Ratnavel: ‘We’re being put into buckets’
The bestselling author and business executive on his remarkable journey, the need to take ‘self-responsibility’ and his alarm about where Canada is heading