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Weekly Column from Kenora MP Eric Melillo Dear Constituents, Conservatives have been fighting a dangerous Liberal Bill that could have devastating impacts on freedom of speech. Bill C-10 would give the CRTC sweeping powers to regulate the internet – including what Canadians are allowed to post online – including on social media networks like Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, and Instagram. Civil liberties advocates and internet experts have raised alarms – including a former CRTC Commission...

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The Atlantic If you want to improve your well-being, you need to make a plan and act on it. ” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. Arthur C. Brooks will discuss the science of happiness live at 11 a.m. ET on May 20. Register for In Pursuit of Happiness here. In his 1851 work American Notebooks, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote, “Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase...

The Atlantic ” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. Arthur C. Brooks will discuss the science of happiness live at 11 a.m. ET on May 20. Register for In Pursuit of Happiness here. In 2010, two Nobel laureates in economics published a paper that created a tidal wave of interest both inside and outside academia. With careful data analysis, the researchers showed that people believe the quality of their lives will increase as they earn more, and their...

The Atlantic Switching to Zoom forever might be convenient, but it’s a recipe for loneliness. ” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. Arthur C. Brooks will discuss the science of happiness live at 11 a.m. ET on May 20. Register for In Pursuit of Happiness here. At the end of January, I went back to teaching my students in person for the first time in 10 months. It was only two days a week, and an hour and a half at a time. We were all avoiding con...

The Atlantic Changing Your Mind Can Make You Less Anxious Humans are programmed to think we’re right at all costs. Fighting that instinct will set you free. ” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the psychologist Henry Murray asked a sample of college sophomores to participate in a seemingly innocuous experiment in which they would write their “personal philosophy of life,” including their core values and gu...

The Atlantic ” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. For years, I was haunted by a fear of failure. I spent my early adulthood as a professional French hornist, playing in chamber-music ensembles and orchestras. Classical music is a perilous business, relying on absolute precision. Playing the French horn, prone as it is to missing notes, is a virtual high-wire act in every concert. I could go from hero to goat within a few mistakes during a solo. I...

The Atlantic Voluntarily sacrificing pleasurable things resets your senses and makes you master of yourself. ” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. We have just entered the season of Lent, a time to pray and fast to commemorate Jesus’s 40-day sojourn into the desert at the beginning of his public ministry. About a quarter of Americans—including 61 percent of Catholics—typically observe Lent through voluntary sacrifice, fasting, almsgiving, an...

Dear Constituents, I was very excited to welcome our Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole to Northern Ontario for his virtual tour of the region on Friday. Erin O’Toole met virtually with a wide variety of business and community leaders from across Northern Ontario, discussing how to create opportunities in the region and secure Canada’s future. Ending Boil Water Advisories February 1st marked twenty-six years of the boil water advisory in Neskantaga First Nation. I made a statement in the...

Markets and politics again. another day in the life of u.s. congress. stan as ive been telling you is an expert on the federal budget and one of the few people who worked on the staffs of the house and senate budget. for years he wrote the guy and currently director of financial communications, still writes a great weekly column. stand joins me now. stan, you paint add bleak picture, which is why i wanted to bring you on. it was a picture based in reality. explain the inertia factor basically a ...