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11Sep2013

Quebec’s Charter of Values: a needless distraction

  • By Ian Bradley
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Buried in the cacophony of noise concerning Quebec’s Charter of Values was a story about the median family income of Quebecers versus the national average.  The 2010 census data tells a sad story that the provincial average was 11% below the national average, and 26.8% below that of the average Albertan family.  Meanwhile we like
11Sep2012

Why do we work, and so hard?

  • By Ian Bradley
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According to a recent American Community Survey, the percentage of professionals working more than 50 hours per week has grown from 34% in 1997 to 38% in 2006.  If Aristotle saw these figures, he would say that we can’t be happy or worse, truly free. In the classic Greek tradition, the only people doing anything
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