Nobody Mention UBI
By Gwynne Dyer, When you lock the people down (to save their lives), you inevitably close down a lot of the economy as well. And the lockdown will definitely have to last in most countries […]
Columns
McBride Fire Chief looks back on 40 Years
By Andrea Arnold In January of 1980, when David Hruby and his wife Rosemary moved to McBride, he had no idea he would serve the area in a leadership role for over 40 years. Upon […]
The Plague — A Few Changes
By Gwynne Dyers Covid-19 is certainly not going to change the world forever, but it is going to change quite a few things, in some cases for a long time. Here’s eight of them, in […]
British Roulette
By Gwynne Dyer “I must level with the British public: many more families are going to lose their loved ones before their time.” Prime Minister Boris Johnson, 11 March 2020 “Just stay calm. It will […]
India’s Kristallnacht?
By Gwynne Dyer The anti-Muslim pogrom in Delhi last week only killed 43 people, and a few of them weren’t even Muslims. But then on Kristallnacht (‘The Night of Broken Glass’) in Germany in 1938, […]
Local Women in Business Sustainability
By Jenn Meagher Women entrepreneurs are on the rise. As women are often the primary caregivers and do the majority of household shopping, there’s an excellent opportunity for sustainably-minded business models to emerge. Here in […]
Assange Hearing
By Gwynne Dyer The cost of being a whistle-blower is going up. When Daniel Ellberg published the ‘Pentagon Papers’ in 1971, revealing the monstrous lies that the US government was telling the American public about […]
Is the ‘Devil Virus’ a ‘Black Swan’?
By Gwynne Dyer China officially went back to work on Monday, after an extended two-week Lunar New Year holiday, while the authorities struggled to get the spread of the new coronavirus under control. But a […]
US Election: Not Another Corbyn
By Gwynne Dyer, On Wednesday the US Senate acquitted President Donald Trump of both charges in his impeachment trial on a straight partisan vote, with only two members of the 53-strong Republican majority even voting […]
Your 2020 Sustainability Guide
By Jenn Meagher We know it’s time to improve our environmental habits. Reject straws, bring reusable bags, and LED lightbulbs are some of the messages routinely shoved down our throats. In a world of conflicting […]
Erdogan vs. The World
By Gwynne Dyer, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not an ‘Islamist’, in the extreme sense of the word. He doesn’t wear a suicide vest and he doesn’t behead people – but he certainly does […]