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GEORGE: Why agreeing with the Internet is a bad thing
OPINION Does anyone remember Reagan's famous welfare queen? Her name was Linda Taylor and she…
GEORGE: Time’s up for this old sign of male privilege
When you belong to a Facebook buy and sell group, you are exposed to a…
GEORGE: It will never be like that again
I recently caught the end of a radio program on CBC. The announcer asked if…
GEORGE: Why we all must make the trip home
OPINION And it's whispered that soon, if we all call the tune, Then the piper…
GEORGE: What you should know about the precautionary principle
OPINION My mother in law, Darlene, was a big believer in common sense. She could…
GEORGE: When the flu becomes a family activity over the holidays
OPINION Thirteen years ago at Christmas, I proposed to my wife. We had gone to…
Why running out of oil isn’t the problem
OPINION A decade ago I stumbled across the idea of "Peak Oil". It turned out…
GEORGE: Homelessness is a social and economic problem
OPINION Homelessness is a problem. For a long time I thought that it was a…
GEORGE: Did we really change Canadian governments in 2015?
OPINION A couple of years ago I ran for the Greens in a federal election.…
GEORGE: Are we living in a meritocracy?
OPINION There is a story we use in our culture to justify our economic system.…
GEORGE: Saving the Internet from becoming the trinet
OPINION The Internet is vast. The number of websites and users continue to increase year…
GEORGE: The Robots are coming
OPINION Welcome to the information revolution. The utopia of automated production is upon us. The…
GEORGE: Idea of sustainability is under attack
OPINION With the coinage of ‘sustainable development,’ the defenders of the unsteady state have won…
GEORGE: Why the ‘legalization’ of marijuana really isn’t
OPINION As Canadians move closer to the day when recreational cannabis is "legalized", we should…
GEORGE: Why are we still arguing about climate change?
OPINION Dealing with climate change has been billed as the greatest challenge our civilization has…