Opinion

If you want to know who to thank — or in the case of Quebec, who to blame — for much of the skilled-worker training ideas contained in the federal budget, fix your gaze on Canada’s largest construction union.

If there was a theme in the recent federal budget, it was how chock full it was with new corporate welfare. The underlying refrain was how big government will help big business with your tax dollars.

There were only 3 of us who attended the information session at the Eating Disorders Programme. I have to admit to feeling a bit uncomfortable participating in such a meeting as I certainly don't look like I've been restricting calories or purging...

Last November, university presidents from across Canada gathered in Toronto to debate a proposed overhaul of the university sport system and to halt the exodus of elite athletes who are Canadian high-school grads moving to American schools.

Somewhere in the B.C. Conservative Party, there’s a statistics geek with a taste for macroeconomic bafflegab who’s managed to hijack their election platform. Leader John Cummins unveiled part of it last week, more on Monday.

Week 9 - What did I learn this week - 1. Sometimes you don't just have bad day you have a bad week :( 2. I need to stay in more hotels to replenish my supply of stolen mini soaps and shampoos etc. 3.

Every 60 seconds, two children are sold into sex trafficking — 1.2 million children are trafficked annually for the purposes of sexual exploitation.

In this land of peace, order and good government, submitting to laws, regulations, absolute bans on a lot of things and limitations on practically everything else is a national characteristic.

My math grade was always the lowest on my report cards. It was always fine, but it was always the lowest. I remember one year my mom suggested, astutely, that maybe I just didn’t want to excel at math.

A New Democratic Party candidate knocked on Martyn Brown’s door the other day. In the old days, that would be the equivalent of a little Ewok meeting up with Darth Vader. The old Martyn Brown would have lasered him up one side and down the other.