A new study shows that visible minorities are not getting their fair share of Canada’s economic pie. The report shows non-whites in Canada earned 81 cents for every dollar made by Caucasians. Visible minorites were also found to have a higher unemployment rate, of 8.6 per cent in 2006 compated with 6.2 per cent for [...]
Archive for January 2012
IS THERE RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN CANADA?
January 27, 2012DOES ALCOHOLISM RUN IN THE FAMILY?
January 26, 2012Just as with other diseases such as diabetes or heart disease, alcoholism can and does run in families. Alcoholism is believed to be caused by both genetic and enviornmental influences. However, just because there is a predispostion to alcoholism due to family history, it does not mean that it will automatically happen. It does mean, [...]
SHOULD CANADA HAVE A NATIONAL DRUG PLAN?
January 25, 2012One in four Canadians who do not have drug insurance are unable to afford to take their prescription drugs as directed, a new survey reveals. One in 10 Canadians struggles to pay for their drug treatment even when they have insurance. This means that millions of patients fail to fill or refill prescriptions, or skip [...]
WOULD YOU LEAVE A POSTHUMOUS MESSAGE?
January 23, 2012Do you think there are any set of circumstances in which you would like to leave someone a message after you (sometimes suddenly and unexpectedly.) The web site If I Die.org lets you do just that. If I Die.org gives you a way to write notes that will only be delivered when you die. The [...]
IS BILINGUALISM WORTH THE MONEY?
January 23, 2012Canada, an officially bilingual country, is a world leader in the promotion of second language knowledge. We should also note that Ottawa and the provinces spend more than $2-billion a year offering government services in both French and English. Yet the actual ability of our population to speak both French and English remains stubbornly low. [...]
WHAT CAN ONE SAY?
January 22, 2012Sarah Burke, 29, lived as if she had no fear, and she pushed out the bounds of human endeavour in an archetypically Canadian way. But though she succeeded on so many levels, her sport of freestyle skiing killed her. It is difficult to make sense of that . How do we weigh such a life [...]
COULD THE PQ DISAPPEAR?
January 21, 2012Bernard Drainville, a heavyweight separatist told Le Devoir this week that the P.Q. could disappear. He was visibly moved by the party’s current state of disintegration. But he likelihood that the PQ could be reduced to a small rump in the National Assembly is not beyond possibility in the party’s current dysfunctional state. In addtion [...]
SHOULD MULCAIR DROP HIS FRENCH CITIZENSHIP?
January 20, 2012Thomas Mulcair wants to become leader of the NDP. He also wants to become prime minister of Canada. But there is a little problem. Mulcair holds dual citizenship – French and Canadian. Should you become prime minister of one country when you owe allegiance to another. To become the citizen of another country is automatically [...]
SHOULD DOCTORS DECIDE WHO DRIVES?
January 19, 2012Doctors are duty bound to tell licensing authorities about any medical condition that would limit their driving abilities. But how do doctors decide who should keep their license and who should not? Especially when the doctor has never seen you drive? Here are a few things you can do to tip the exam in your [...]
IS THE CAPTAIN A COWARD?
January 18, 2012The absence of Captain Schettino from his damaged ship, the Costa Concordia, while some of the passengers were still on board, invites an inference of cowardice. The captain seemed untroubled by being on one of the rescue boats rather than on his ship. But what difference would it have made had Captain Schettino stayed with [...]
