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12 Votes
Funding programs to help stop smoking is a good investment
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In the last few decades, governments across Canada have developed numerous programs and advertisements directed at helping Canadians to stop smoking. Those programs and advertisements, along with the changes in social values that accompany them, have helped to decrease substantially the percentage of Canadians who smoke.
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14 Votes
The economic recovery is too fragile to sustain an interest-rate hike
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The Bank of Canada faces a flurry of mixed, often conflicting, economic data as it prepares to deliver its latest ruling on the direction of interest rates on Wednesday.
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11 Votes
Caregivers also need support in vital role
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That slogan, used by the Canadian Caregiver Coalition, aptly reminds us that at some point in our lives, most of us will either become a caregiver for an incapacitated relative or friend or be in need of one.
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7 Votes
Greens' legacy is one of split votes, failed dreams
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Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May announced after its recent convention that the party's focus in the next federal election will be on electing its first member of Parliament.
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9 Votes
Mental health law needs to be clarified, not changed
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In most situations, a person is free to refuse treatment from a physician even if the physician believes it is in the person's best interest. For the physician to do otherwise would violate the person's autonomy and, indeed, would constitute assault.
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14 Votes
Why meteorological data matter
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When Canada has trouble measuring how much snow is on the ground, something is seriously wrong with the state of government research.
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10 Votes
Housing-first project may finally end plague of homelessness
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Reopenings of large hotels, in places such as New York and Las Vegas, are often major media events, attended by many of the cities' movers and shakers. But sometimes, reopenings of less grandiose hotels, in places such as Vancouver, also command significant attention. This is especially true when the hotels can make a significant difference to lives of vulnerable people, and to the city as whole.
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15 Votes
Bountiful salmon run reminds us we know little about the fishery
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If there is one word that defines the science that underpins the way we manage our salmon fishery, it is "unexpected."
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