MOST OF US ARE LIKE COLUMBUS BEFORE 1492. Most of us have not yet made first contact. We have no idea what the Indigenous people who live here are really like.

DONALD TRUMP GIVES POPULISM A BAD NAME. The “populism” he purveys is not even real populism. It is a deformed and twisted version of populism—a dark evil twin of true populism, whether of left or right.

New documentary about Mister Rogers is a stirring riposte to the cascading darkness of our times.

“I’M NOT A DOCTOR, BUT I PLAY ONE ON TV,” WON’T CUT IT. Yet millions of people are taking health advice from celebrities and all kinds of other people with no medical degrees. This is the latest—and most potentially dangerous—turn in our ever-expanding self-help craze.

THE OUTRAGE AGAINST MINIMUM WAGE RAISES IS REAL. The reasons for the outrage are not. Yet it persists. John Baglow tells us why he thinks that is.

B.C. IS UNION COUNTRY. ALWAYS WAS. ALWAYS WILL BE. And that’s a good thing. Rod Mickleburgh convincingly proves this in his new book On the Line.

DAVID SUZUKI NEVER HOLDS BACK. That’s not how he got to be a TV star, Canada’s leadsing environmental activist hero and number one climate-change opponent. He is passionate about the truth of things. He has little time for those who are not.

CINDY BLACKSTOCK has been described as the ‘relentless moral voice’ for First Nations equality, a ‘rock star social worker’, and even ‘Canada’s Martin Luther King’.

LIBERALISM IN ALL ITS FORMS, INCLUDING LEFT LIBERALISM, SEEMS EXHAUSTED.

GETTING FIRED IS BAD ENOUGH. Calling it a “layoff,” when we all know the jobs are never coming back, is twisting the knife and then spinning it as a good thing, is twisting it again.