January 13, 2020

If you have not been bombarded by mattress commercials on television over the past six months, consider yourself lucky. Whether you are watching a sitcom, the news or ...

January 9, 2020

Last month, before geopolitics were thrown a severe curveball by the actions of the United States inside Iraq, Research Co. asked Canadians about their views on different ...

January 7, 2020

The year that has just started will mark the 40th anniversary of the first referendum on Quebec sovereignty and the 25th anniversary of the last one. As the new decade ...

December 30, 2019

Astrology has been a fixture of newspapers since the days when reporters and editors could smoke inside their newsrooms. In some countries, radio and television newscasts...

December 22, 2019

Canadians sure are a schizophrenic lot when it comes to what sort of substances we will legally allow to be used for a chemical high. Take, for instance, e-cigarettes/...

December 19, 2019

As the second decade of the 21st century nears its end, the inhabitants of North America have endured the overuse of the term “war.” We had the “war on the vehicle” ...

December 10, 2019

Yield has always been the first measuring stick for success on the farm, and is still generally promoted as the goal, but the question that should be asked is if added ...

December 5, 2019

In 2012, the federal government—at the time headed by Stephen Harper—began to devise a strategy to take the penny out of circulation in Canada. One of the reasons behind ...

December 3, 2019

During this year’s federal campaign, religion played a minor role in shaping the perceptions of Canadians on the country’s party leaders. Most of the ink was devoted to ...

December 2, 2019

While I appreciate there are those who have begun to doubt science, I for one am a believer that our future as a planet lies solely with what science can create in the ...

November 21, 2019

The perceptions of Canadians on animal welfare issues have gone through noticeable changes over the past two decades. In Vancouver, we experienced months – if not years –...