Some high-minded Vancouver homeowners want a 30% price decline to restore the city’s housing affordability, according to the New York Times citing a 2016 survey. Hmmm, a 30% haircut would mean a market collapse. Others will probably settle for 10%-20%, which translates into a loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars. This, too, is a huge amount. “If I got to lose 200 […]

Jack Westman’s 476-page analysis of the human propensity for war is one of the more unusual contributions to the deluge of information on the world’s geopolitics. He is not a deal-making diplomat, a celebrity political pundit, or even a journalist. Instead, as a psychiatrist and academic, Westman has spent most of his last 65 years […]

For most of today’s 7.5 billion people, traditional medicines remain an integral part of their lives despite the continuing expansion of an already formidable modern healthcare system built on the principles of Western science and market forces. In Asia, home to 60% of the world’s population, there is a deeprooted belief that traditional medicines hold […]

They shared a common opposition to Beijing’s authoritarian rule, but the late Chinese dissident and human rights campaigner Liu Xiaobo was no separatist as he stood against Hong Kong’s independence advocates, according to a Canadian academic. Leo K. Shin, a University of British Columbia (UBC) historian and Hong Kong analyst, said Liu, who died of […]