What do Jordan Peterson, Pierre Poilievre and Elon Musk have in common? None of them understands how free speech actually works — especially in Canada, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

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Government housing policy preferences are based on values, the most fundamental being the extent to which housing is viewed as a right, or as a commodity.

Tipping has long been an established and widely accepted social norm in North America. Although it is not required, many Canadians feel pressured to tip — even in situations when we are dissatisfied with food or service quality.

Canadian health economist Robert Evans called them zombies: ideas killed long ago by evidence, but re-emerging from the grave, often in disguise.

Just before the holidays, BUILD, Inc. announced the closure of its training program upon the breakdown of funding negotiations with the provincial government.

It’s perplexing for disabled people and advocates that while so many media headlines point to the extreme financial struggles of people with disabilities in our inflationary economy, the powers that be continue debating details.

Two years ago, when the world was quiet, and we huddled in our homes to protect ourselves from the pandemic, nature seemed to reappear in the gaps created by our absence. Great grey owls perched in the elm tree outside my window, ducks ventured up from the river and coyotes slipped down inner-city streets and loped away into the night.

THE issue of violent crime has again risen to the top of Winnipeggers’ minds. Political leaders are beginning their typical task of turning public fear into votes by offering simplistic solutions.

OVER the past three years, significant column inches in the Free Press have been devoted to analysis of the continuing failures in our health-care system. The onset of COVID-19 only exacerbated the deficiencies and accelerated the near-complete disintegration of the entire system.

IT was the moral equivalent of a fart in a hurricane.

My word for 2022 was “resilience,” nowhere better demonstrated this past year than in Ukraine.