The more people think about the environment, the more complexities will come to the surface. There is an ongoing debate in the Canadian Green movement, one that illustrates an important distinction, namely that between hard choices and moral dilemmas. We will have to face moral dilemmas when dealing with the difficulties of issues like global warming.

The women run on logic and the men on emotions. This seems to be the case for three major contests in American politics.

We got a good look at politics in action via Wilson-Raybould's testimony recently. Is this the way that we want our politics to be done?

Is it okay to distort the truth to support a moral/political position?

The reflections offered by students at Discovery University's Graduation ceremony were a delightful antidote to the current world of fake news and hype.

The is much value in thinking about what "using a vehicle" means since how this term is defined will determine much of the ethics of the whole problem regarding our selling arms to Saudi Arabia. But the issue is broader than the current issue with Saudi Arabia. It goes to the heart of what it means for Canada to sell arms to countries with poor human rights records.

The first issue to seriously get in Trump's way is an academic issue? Seriously?

Canadians probably believe that Donald Trump's success could not be duplicated here. In fact, it might just be that we will have an opportunity to test that belief since Kevin O'Leary is contemplating a bid for the federal Conservative Party leadership.

We often delude ourselves by thinking that we have less responsibility than we actually do. As Plato points out, when we know something, we become responsible beings. Sartre stresses that our responsiblity is so deep and daunting that we often flee from it.

Once it became clear that the Brexit supporters were going to win in the referendum, global markets dipped, diplomacy froze, and the British pound took its worst beating in years. None of these outcomes, however, completely capture the blows dealt to the cosmopolitan idea that propelled EU in the first place.