Columns
Carol Hughes’ Column – Rogers-Shaw Deal Means the Oligopoly Runs the Roost
Last week, Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne proudly announced that Canadian internet, cable, and wireless services giants Rogers and Shaw would be allowed to proceed with their $26 billion merger. As part of this unprecedented deal, Shaw would need to sell … Continue reading
Carol Hughes’ Column – A glimpse of the 2023 Federal Budget
Budget 2023 was released earlier this week. It’s a budget that comes at a time when a global inflation crisis is making life a lot more unaffordable for too many people and the expectation of a shallow recession to come. … Continue reading
Carol Hughes’ Column – We Need a Public Inquiry into Chinese Election Interference
As Canadians, we like to assume that our electoral system is beyond reproach. We certainly have a number of checks-and-balances in our system that help keep elections safe and secure. We limit the amount of money any individual can donate … Continue reading
Carol Hughes’ Column – End the Outsourcing of Veteran’s Affairs Rehabilitation and Mental Health Services
Canadian veterans often have a difficult time accessing mental health and rehabilitation services. Wait times for assistance can be long and accessing those services can often be confusing. However, it’s become more problematic in recent months, as Veterans Affairs has … Continue reading
Dark Times And Black Humour — The Comedians Is A Beautiful Distraction.
“Dying is easy, comedy is hard.” For anyone who has stood before a group of people with the intention of making them laugh, those words are not a quote. They’re an epitaph. In surveys about panic and anxiety, no less … Continue reading
Trucks, Truckers And Trouble With A Capital “T”.
In 1896 when the German inventor Gottlieb Daimler converted a horse-drawn cart into a vehicle driven by a two-cycle gas engine, thereby creating the truck, he could not find a single buyer in all of Germany. There’s an awful lot … Continue reading
Classic Newspaper Headlines Reveal More About People Than The Press.
A newspaper headline is designed to grab your attention, sum up the story below it and entice you to read the body of the article. Over the years, good, bad, ridiculous and great headlines have become famous and infamous in … Continue reading
We’re Losing The Battle To Reverse Global Weirdness
Internationally, weirdness is off to a rollicking start just one month into the new year.In Myanmar, former leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to four years in prison for using a walkie talkie. Presumably, if she’d have been caught … Continue reading
Reason, Bribing and Shaming Failed. Let’s Try ‘Tough Logic’ On The Anti-Vaxxers.
The provinces of Ontario and Quebec have always enjoyed a robust trade arrangement with cars and precious metals going east while aluminum and airplanes came this way. So a massive unprecedented blockbuster trade in today’s volatile world might be rare … Continue reading
Personal Tips For Better Driving — Burn After Reading
Like just about everything else, our driving habits have gone to hell during this two-year pandemic nightmare. Right from the get-go, police were reporting more speeding, more stunt driving and the general cutting of corners on safe, defensive driving.Young male … Continue reading
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