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Finance Minister Bill Morneau is not the first Canadian politician to hold the job who’s been confronted with outrage over tax reform proposals. But it’s time to listen to people who get riled up about […]

122 million of 155 million stunted children live in conflict countries. (Piyaset/Shutterstock.com) Last year about 11 per cent of the total human population (approximately 850 million people on the planet) suffered from daily hunger, according to […]

Former astronaut Julie Payette urges Canada to use science, knowledge, and innovation as paths to better future for all, during her installation ceremony as Canada’s 29th Governor General in the Senate chamber of Parliament on […]

A banner held up during a general strike in Catalonia on October 3. Enric Fontcuberta/EPA Until the events on October 1, in which images of police violently preventing people from voting in Catalonia’s referendum on […]

Catalans protest the Spanish government crackdown after voting for independence. Reuters/Yves Herman Calls for “independence” have been increasingly heard on the streets of Barcelona in recent days. Those powerful emotions can drive people to extremes, […]

Graeme/Flickr, CC BY-SA When it was introduced in 2013, government ministers promised that their flagship new benefit Universal Credit would help transform lives, make work pay and support Britain’s most vulnerable households. In fact, as […]

(Ben Fathers/AFP/Getty Images) Uber’s top boss in the U.K. announced she is leaving the company today, not long after the app was stripped of its license to operate in London. As regional manager for Northern […]

via shutterstock.com The new atheists are a diverse bunch. Philosophers, scientists, “public intellectuals” such as Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins or Sam Harris cornered much of the non-fiction trade publishing market in the early 2000s writing […]

A woman sits on a curb at the scene of a shooting on the Las Vegas Strip, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, in Las Vegas. AP Photo/John Locher America has experienced yet another mass shooting, this time […]

EPA/Quique Garcia Europe has had a rocky ride with referendums in recent years: think of Greece’s anti-austerity vote in 2015, or the Brexit shock and Italy’s failed constitutional referendum in December 2016. As the UK […]