Laura Neilson Bonikowsky

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According to The Economist, Chinese President Xi Jinping has launched an antitrust campaign on China’s tech firms, demanding they focus on “deep tech” that offers “geostrategic advantage, not frivolities [such as] games and shopping.” Shown here is Alibaba's headquarters in Hangzhou. (Photo: Daniel inblue))

Where business is heading

Wherever they exist, trends are about human behaviour, which is predictable. Charles Tatum, psychology expert at California’s National University, says predictability leaves us open to

Shown here is study period at Roman Catholic Indian Residential School, Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories. The latest residential school scandal made headlines across the globe, and China weaponized it in its dealings with Canada. (Photo: Library and archives Canada)

The residential schools tragedy

In May, Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc leaders announced that the loss of children from B.C.’s Kamloops Indian Residential School had been confirmed by ground-penetrating radar. In

Five gains COVID has conferred

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Since then, we’ve endured lockdowns, restrictions, fear-mongering and business failures. Approximately 140 million

The COVID crushers

The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV2, COVID-19, has taken lives, disrupted our days, ruined businesses, spread fear and birthed a plethora of conspiracy theories. In that, it

Preparing for disaster

Humans are fearful. We grapple with our mortality, unable to imagine the planet without us, but optimistic that we will prevail. Our anxiety has been

Where the world trades

Trade agreements have been a foreign policy goal for Canada and many other nations worldwide. Laura Neilson Bonikowsky looks at the 10 largest in terms

Where in the world everybody is going

The Top 10 tourist destinations around the globe Each year, people around the world leave home searching for adventure or a change of scenery. While

Securing food in uncertain times

Food security is the state when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food which meets

2016: A year worthy of worry

As a year of grave concerns, 2016 is giving us plenty to think about. Terrorism, war, economic and political instability, refugees, climate change, unemployment, rising