Viewers of Global News Hour at 6 and Global News at 11 Calgary will see more of a familiar face on the nightly news starting next month, as Joel Senick has been announced as the new anchor of Global Calgary’s late-night news broadcast. Senick is no stranger to Global Calgary viewers, as he’s not only […]

What are we to make of Argentina’s surprise election results on Aug. 11, which jolted pollsters and analysts alike, and roiled the country’s financial markets? In the presidential primary for the country’s October election, the opposition ticket of Alberto Fernández trounced President Mauricio Macri by an unexpected margin of 15.6 percent. The Fernández coalition attributes […]

Fine Gael’s strategy for next month’s Budget was straight forward enough. It was to be Finance Minister Pascal Donohoe’s last before a general election this year or next. Despite the inevitable annual HSE overspending there would still be enough in the larder to increase public spending and give taxpayers a break. In such a benign […]

Fianna Fáil has always been a party that prides itself on using the levers of government to deliver social supports for the elderly and vulnerable. In the late 1960s it was Charlie Haughey who brought in free travel and subsidised electricity for pensioners, as well as special tax concessions for the disabled. Free travel in […]

Weight Watchers — now rebranded as WW — has introduced an app called Kurbo, for children 8 to 17 years old. As a registered dietitian who specializes in helping people recover from disordered eating, I strongly recommend that parents keep this new tool — and any weight-loss program — away from their children. Our society […]

To the Editor: Re “A Future Without the Front Page” (“The Last Edition,” special section, Aug. 4): It was good to see The New York Times focusing attention on the alarming decline in local news and ideas for reversing it. One important point needs to be highlighted: the proper and crucial role philanthropy should play. […]

The worst-case outcome is not yet inevitable. There are still plausible scenarios that could prevent a no-deal Brexit on October 31. It may be too late for the Irish and EU side to time-limit the backstop, a concession that would have prevented a no-deal and kept Boris Johnson out of number 10, but something may […]

America is on the verge of grand human re-sorting. On Monday, the Trump administration announced new immigration rules that favor younger, healthier and wealthier newcomers, and make it easier to deny permanent residency to those relying on public assistance programs like Medicaid, or those who don’t show enough funds on their visa applications. When asked […]

Today’s call-out culture is so seductive, I often have to resist the overwhelming temptation to clap back at people on social media who get on my nerves. Call-outs happen when people publicly shame each other online, at the office, in classrooms or anywhere humans have beef with one another. But I believe there are better […]

This column is not in the business of forecasting recessions, based on inverted yield curves or any other form of augury. But when enough credentialed auguries suddenly think one might be possible, it seems prudent to speculate about the consequences if they turn out to be correct. So let’s imagine what might follow if, sometime […]