Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, but Words Deserve Life in Prison?

 What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. — Salman Rushdie Since the Trudeau government came to power in 2015, they have slowly pivoted from sunny ways towards an autocratic state where free speech and freedom of the press are suppressed and despised. This

Canada’s gluttonous banks and their greedy CEOs reel in record profits during pandemic

 Canada’s Big 6 Banks reported a 14 per cent increase in their 2021 first-quarter profits, and extremely high profits in 2020 totalling $41.13 billion, just $5.1 billion (12 per cent) less than in 2019 (BMO - $5.1B; CIBC - $3.8B; National - $2.08; RBC - $11.4B; Scotiabank - $6.85B; TD

Canadians are staring into a debt abyss

 by Greg MacDougall and Steve Saunders of Government Analytics While Covid-19 hit the Canadian economy like a sledgehammer last March, its impact can now be likened to that of a slow motion 1998 Ottawa Ice Storm or 2013 Calgary flood; it’s not simply a phase of the business cycle or