What links Donald Trump to the men who massacred innocents in El Paso and Dayton this past weekend? Note that I said both men: the one with the white-nationalist manifesto and the one with some kind of atheist-socialist politics; the one whose ranting about a “Hispanic invasion” echoed Trump’s own rhetoric and the one who […]

For much of history, there were three great threats to human survival: infections, injuries and starvation. By striking early and often, all three prevented us from fulfilling the most important reason for our existence: reproduction. Humans, therefore, evolved mechanisms to stave off these life-limiters. These days most of us die of heart disease. The reason […]

I’ve finally switched off. Literally and metaphorically and every which other way as well. I am done with Brexit, its endless permutations, its blathering proponents and, to be honest, the hand-wringing doomsayers who seem to be taking far too much pleasure out of the awfulness of it all. I agree, as most reasonable people do, […]

President Trump’s vision to “make America great again” was not expected to include a litany of horrifying hate-fuelled violence yet it is becoming the leitmotif of his time in office. Mr Trump has stood accused of sowing division and bigotry rather than helping to unite and heal. His kowtowing to the gun lobby has made […]

I didn’t know that the Dow was going to drop 750 points, so my latest column is El Paso-related. Probably the right choice anyway, because US-China is moving so fast that anything in the print paper would be out of date. But it does look as if I should try to explain (a) what I […]

Chelsea McEvoy, a Kelowna-based director, has done numerous documentaries. Her partner, James Hektner, is president of Accessible Okanagan. Now they are turning the camera on themselves, with a project focusing on the challenges inter-abled couples like themselves can face when trying to have a baby. “There isn’t much out there about this topic in particular,” […]

To the Editor: Re “Trump Condemns White Supremacy but Doesn’t Propose Gun Laws After Shootings” (nytimes.com, Aug. 5): While President Trump was correct to condemn white supremacy and racist hate, his failure to call for significant new gun control measures is distressing. It took just minutes for the gunman in El Paso to kill 22 […]

In the fifth year of a pitiless war between Ansar Allah, the Iranian-supported movement known as the Houthis, and the Saudi Arabia-led and United States-backed coalition, Sana, the capital of Yemen, doesn’t see many American visitors. For good reason. The Houthis control Sana and about a fifth of the country’s landmass in all; a majority […]

ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss Re’s (SRENH.S) Britain-based ReAssure unit has agreed to buy the closed book business of Quilter (QLT.L) for 425 million pounds ($515.19 million). The acquisition will add over 200,000 customer policies and 12 billion pounds of assets to ReAssure’s platform, Swiss Re said on Monday. The business consisted of Old Mutual Wealth […]

Like a number of recent mass shootings, the one in El Paso on Saturday came with a manifesto. While authorities are still working to verify that this document explicitly was indeed written by the attacker, the evidence seems clear: It was posted to 8Chan minutes before the attack, by someone with the same name. By […]