The act of “doomscrolling”— the consumption of media with a negative tone or subject — has been receiving fresh attention in the popular media and even the scholarly literature. It is increasingly noted for its detrimental impacts on the mental health of those who regularly engage in it, and many authorities
As the roar of flames becomes louder than ever, the silence surrounding their cause, effects and cure is deafening. Alberta came into its worst wildfire season in decades radically unprepared and so far, its government has learned nothing. Inaction would have been bad enough, but the United Conservative government’s
One way that inequality and its consequences are maintained is by presenting them as the moral — if not natural — way of things. Disney’s animated film The Lion King, released in 1994 (remade in 2019), provides one such example. As of 2020, it was the 7th highest-grossing film of
I dislike the term “political correctness.” It is a term normally monopolized by conservative voices who freely pursue lucrative careers as provocateurs while paradoxically claiming that their views are actively being silenced by progressive interests. Their complaints of suppression tend to be isolated, unproven, hypocritical or dwarfed by the conservative
The War Measures Act, one of the most controversial pieces of legislation in Canadian history, was deceptively named when it was passed in 1914. That fact has not diminished since it was replaced by the Emergencies Act in 1988. Every implementation has lacked a wartime background or been directed against
Since late January, a theatrical vehicular protest has paralyzed Ottawa. Its goal is the removal of all public health measures, especially the requirement for cross-border truckers to be vaccinated — even though one is nearly 53 times more likely to be injured driving an automobile than to have a serious