Why the U.S. continues to drag its feet on gun control
GERRY CHIDIAC: Gun control is one of many issues on which American elected officials are far out of sync with constituents
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When political protests become hate-filled harassment
MICHAEL TAUBE: Harassment such as that experienced by Rempel Garner and Trudeau must stop (PREMIUM)
Can First Nations truly be autonomous in all things?
JOSEPH QUESNEL: Ensuring access to safe drinking water isn’t simple. It may require guidance and even intervention by the federal government (FREE)
Canada’s drug screening process falls dangerously short
LEE HARDING: A cure should never be worse than the disease and when regulators don’t do due diligence, that’s the very thing that can happen
Think Canada’s gun registry is dead? Think again
LEE HARDING: Trudeau says he’d never reinstate gun registry, nor would any Canadian government disarm the people. But we have reason to doubt his word (FREE)
Failure to use rapid tests in pandemic points to deeper problems
JOHN ADAMS and KASHIF PIRZADA: We still have time to act; we could approve and quickly license and produce rapid tests in Canada by the tens of millions
Lockdown hysteria defies COVID-19 reality
MARCO NAVARRO-GENIE: Given that infections don’t by a long shot equal hospitalizations, civil libertarians are rightly sounding warning bells
Defunding police requires understanding the role of policing
TEMITOPE ORIOLA: Demystifying police work is needed to increase public support for major reforms, argues U of A sociologist
To mask or not to mask?
MICHAEL TAUBE: It really comes down to your comfort level, belief system and what you want to do until instructed otherwise
Indigenous communities offer pandemic lessons
JOSEPH QUESNEL: The resilience of remote First Nations in the face of outbreaks may encourage changes in how we plan and manage living spaces (FREE membership content)
Ebola outbreak provides public health lessons for COVID-19
HEALTH: Mistrust, fear and rumours helped the virus spread in 2018, but training trusted local leaders helped stop it, U of A researchers find (FREE membership content)
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