I’m a little hesitant to post this, as I’m wary of conflating American issues with Canadian — but with that caveat in mind:
Adam Gopnik, this year’s Massey Lecturer, has a good article in this week’s New Yorker on the American prison system, which you can find here.
It’s hard not [...]
That a few teenagers are taking, distributing, and collecting naked pictures of each other is, I suppose, something parents should be a little concerned about (“Teens on notice,” Chronicle Herald, 11 December 2011). That the Cape Breton Regional Police are in any way concerned about it, though, is terrifying.
Recently, the police collected around [...]
The two editorials on universities the Citizen ran Saturday [22 October 2011] got a lot of things right, but they got one big thing very wrong. Whatever the problems are that plague universities in Canada these days, the solution isn’t to turn away young adults seeking an education.
The boom in universities in the last [...]
Chosen by the students to be the inaugural speaker for the Fountain Memorial Lecture series, Former Governor General the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean spoke at King’s College on Monday, to a packed auditorium and overflow room. The lecture was expansive and fascinating – I can’t attempt to summarize it all.
The power of communication and dialogue [...]
The Alberta Oil Sands have been in the news a lot recently – largely because of the controversy surrounding the Keystone XL pipeline project in the US. However, it seems that the very real ethical concerns surrounding the ongoing development of the oil sands are, relatively speaking, currently less discussed on our side of the [...]
The news of Clifford Olson’s terminal illness brought more than a few Canadians, including the Chronicle Herald’s Paul Schneidereit, to wonder whether we should restore the death penalty (“Of forgotten victims, dying psychopaths and the death penalty,” Wednesday 28 September).
Olson raped, tortured, and murdered eleven children and teens back in the early 1980s. He [...]
