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A seat at the table: Pushing back on discord and division
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COVID-19 myths topping the charts this week
Rather than being transmitted from aerosol droplets, misinformation travels quickly from social media, to group chats, to Zoom meetings, right to the pulpit from which…
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COVID-19: Misinformation on steroids
Tim Caulfield doesn’t believe in magical thinking, hoaxes and medical fakery. To back that up he’s written books like, Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything…
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Climate denial, delay and defeatism
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Don’t bank on TD’s $15 minimum wage impact forecast
Business in skewed economic assessments of Ontario’s move to a $15 per hour minimum wage has been brisk this week.
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They huff and they puff: More overblown claims about a $15 minimum wage
Another week, another business lobby report that exaggerates the potential negative impact of Ontario’s plan to increase the minimum wage to $15 by 2019. Actually,…
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Which tax, what middle class? Debunking the income splitting debate.
When MPs head back to the Hill next week, we can expect an already heated debate about tax fairness to go up a few more…
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Debunking the Fraser Institute’s latest scaremongering on Indigenous rights
In a particularly repugnant move, the Fraser Institute chose National Aboriginal Day (June 21) to release a report by Tom Flanagan claiming that a sharp…
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You must be kidding: Confronting key myths about Quebec’s child care system
Eighteen months into the federal government’s mandate, with several provincial elections approaching, child care is once again a topic of debate. And, inevitably, Quebec’s system…
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Whither the Crown Corporation? The Semantics of Privatization
The Saskatchewan government’s recent legislative efforts to define what is – and what is not – “privatization,” has left us all floundering in a game of useless…
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Progress is about solutions, not scapegoats
If anything’s become clear while watching the star-spangled spectacle unfold south of the border, it’s this: nature—in this case, human nature—abhors a vacuum.
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The fickle mantle of innovation
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