Unfortunately, we live in a violent world, but not as violent as it has been. In 2011, Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, and public intellectual Stephen Pinker wrote a book called The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence...
“Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.” – Haruki Murakami After hearing the authoritative proclamation that climate change will be irreversible by the year 2030, I concluded that the only logical course of actio...
Like Canadians generally, British Columbians are going through economic hardship. Throughout our election campaign in October, the cost of living was top of mind for voters and candidates. One in three B.C. residents, and half of those aged 18-34, ar...
After narrowly returning to power in October, Premier David Eby’s NDP government is proceeding full steam ahead with increasingly controversial province-wide densification plans. The B.C. NDP’s Bill 44 is now in effect. This piece of legislation mand...
A new survey conducted by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies reveals that a majority of Canadians oppose taking cultural background or race into account in hiring decisions. To read the full survey, click here. Here are some of the key re...
“I am going to get very vocal about things happening in Canada, and I’m okay if that upsets some people”. That’s how former Vancouver Police Board vice-chair Comfort Sakoma began a series of Instagram posts describing her concerns about the effects o...
Society’s fears and hatreds are projected onto the movie screen. Falling Down was released in 1993, in a decade characterized by fears of gang violence and urban disorder. William Forster, a divorced and unemployed defense engineer, is stuck in rush...
Foreign policy includes a variety of objectives, including economic ones. During the Cold War, up to around 1990, Canada’s role in the world was pretty clear. We were part of NATO, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), and the G7. We work...
My mother was in her early 90s when she passed away in early 2016. She was often fascinated by US politics. She bought our first colour TV in 1973 because she wanted to watch the Watergate hearings in colour, which to me seemed pointless since it was...
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on the Canadians for a Sustainable Society website (sustainablesociety.com), which I encourage readers to check out. It is republished here, in a slightly abridged format, with permission of the au...