What’s different about the drop in Real Estate prices compared to other slowdowns in sectors of the economy is that the Real Estate drop was a desired goal.

A new study concludes that wait times for surgery are worse than ever. No kidding – that’s what the system is designed to do. Denying treatment is how Canada’s healthcare system controls costs. Sadly federal and provincial politicians are dedicated to defending the system and to hell with what the BC Supreme Court recently called needless patient suffering.

A brand new study published in Nature Human Behavior finds that those people with the strongest views who think they know a great deal about a subject are the ones who know the least. The study’s talking about attitudes towards genetically modified foods but you’d be forgiven for thinking it applies to all sorts of issues from pipelines to free trade.