Eisenhower was cagey but Kennedy rushed in
In 1961, as a young president prepared to take over from an aging one, their perspectives on military responsibility were starkly different…
New observatory opens a window into wonders of the night sky
Facility at Miquelon Lake Provincial Park offers students, researchers and the public a view of dark skies unaffected by light pollution…
The truth has a way of making you feel better
There’s a correlation between social activism and happiness. But which comes first?…
We need a national jobs summit now
With a focus on the importance of human resources in the new global economy…
A child’s bad behaviour is what they do, not who they are
As a teacher, I have never worked with a bad child but I have seen a fair amount of bad behaviour…
The year the world finally said, ‘Enough is enough!’
It’s difficult to call colonization and the theories that perpetuate and justify it to this day anything but the sinful antithesis of love…
A revisionist history of who won the U.S. Civil War
While history may show the South lost on the battlefields, it may have won the war of ideas and influence more than 150 years after the last shot was fired…
Cancel culture leading to an exodus of universities’ free-thinkers
Just as a candle’s flame starved of oxygen sputters and dies, so does the advancement of knowledge when starved of criticism…
What Jeopardy! teaches us about learning styles
It’s important for schools to have a knowledge-rich curriculum that sequentially builds on knowledge year by year. Alex Trebek taught us that…
How to raise a generation of moral, courageous rebels
Personality and upbringing play a significant role in developing moral character, but certain aspects can be taught…