More Federal Debt Can Help Build a Better Canada
Rather than wringing our hands about if and when the federal government plans to balance the budget or about the lack of a fiscal anchor to discipline federal spending, we should take the opportunity to assess the costs of decades of austerity light and have the long overdue debate about the role of debt and taxes in meeting the crises ahead and building the Canada we want.
Canada Is Reducing Poverty and Increasing Equality, Says StatsCan
In a progressive society, ‘this is what we should be caring about,’ says one observer.
Climate change means even more parts of Canada will need to prepare for stronger hurricanes, report suggests
A new report in the ScienceBrief Review website published last week now suggests that many regions affected by hurricanes will likely experience storms of greater intensity as a result of Earth’s changing climate. Maximum wind speeds in hurricanes could rise five per cent if the planet warms by 2 C by 2100, the review of more than 90 peer-reviewed studies found.
STUDY: A Person’s Body Stays Their Biological Sex After “Transgender” Therapy
Multiple studies have confirmed that a person’s body stays the biological sex it was created, even after transition therapy. These studies have received very little media coverage despite being groundbreaking in the field.
What Is Climate Feminism?
“The climate crisis is not gender neutral,” says Katharine K. Wilkinson, coeditor of the anthology All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, a book of essays and poems written entirely by women contributors. “It grows out of a patriarchal system that is also entangled with racism and white supremacy and extractive capitalism. And the unequal impacts of climate change are making it harder to achieve a gender-equal world.”
Big Media and Big Tech Collude to Control Thought
Nothing exemplifies the corporate collusion to control thought better than an article in the New York Times’ opinion section.
Charlie Warzel, one of the Times’ opinion writers, argues that conventional critical-thinking skills become useless when confronting the massive amount of information available online. Instead, Warzel advocates simplifying the process by limiting internet browsing to one or two trusted sources — such as Google or Wikipedia — to evaluate quickly whether a subject warrants further research.
