Opinion

This holiday season, I’ve been told, was all quiet on the PC front — meaning, I guess, that those pesky people who push politically correct language didn’t manage to ruin anyone’s Christmas this year.

Looking ahead to his budget, expected in March, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty will need more than the luck of the Irish, he’ll need a crystal ball.

There was a time when the nature of paper records ensured us all some measure of privacy. Only so many records could be kept and searching them took time. Those days are long gone.

Fearless political predictions for 2013, from a career .150 hitter with a record of swinging at back pitches. • B.C. Conservative Party leader John Cummins? Win? He won’t even run.

Fearless political predictions for 2013, from a career .150 hitter with a record of swinging at back pitches. • B.C. Conservative Party leader John Cummins? Win? He won’t even run.

If you’ve been following media accounts of the U.S. budget negotiations, you might have the impression that a victory has been won. According to the CBC, for example, the U.S.

Patrick McLaren Paul Summerville and Rowan Porta (“Making the case for a more-welcoming Canada,” Dec. 30, 2012) make the case that declining populations in developed countries represent a “dangerous” demographic shift that threatens their economies.

Some people are concerned about genetically modified food, with good reason, but I’m more concerned about genetically modified kids. One of the aims of the science of genetics is to help us be more healthy and resistant to disease.

Golf is a game in which a series of successive failures, interspersed with the occasional success, may lead the realist to a sense of personal victory.

A well-managed, steady population increase over the next 40 years can position Canada among the world’s most important countries. Throughout history, a growing population has been a key factor in the rise of economic and political power.