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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 Commissioner, who called the Bill a “full-blown assault” on freedom of expression. What’s worse, the Li...

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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, and is never attained.” This is basically a restatement of the Stoic philosophers’ “paradox ...

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 feelings do improve with additional money at low income levels. But the well-being they experience...

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 contact and wearing masks, so normal human interaction was almost nonexistent. But for me, it was like ...