These remain very touch economic times of great uncertainty, with the number of average Canadians claiming insolvency, or teetering on insolvency, on the rise, government deficits bloated, wars overseas, and great political division. More and more, wealthy class work...
The numbers blasted across the news media this past year were telling and cut to the core of what's a dire situation – according to a Statistics Canada report in October, from 2021 to 2022, more households reported experiencing moderate or severe food insecurity, and...
According to these stats, people in Canada are active on the charitable giving and philanthropy front, with almost 84,000 registered charities, and $304 billion of total revenue (67% from government), based on the 2020 Blumbergs' report, anyway. People of affluence...
At no time of the year is want at its highest peak than during the Christmas holidays. There's so much pressure to spend on gifts, so much commercialism, everywhere you turn, and that becomes that much more pronounced during tougher times, as we all saw in 2023. That...
Warren Buffet once said that if you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent. At no time is that truer than now, a time of great tumult and uncertainty especially on the economic side....
Lots of talk these days about kids and education, specifically what they are being taught in school, and the value of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education in a world with real global challenges, such as climate change, sustainable development,...
