Michael Cook Michael Cook is editor of Mercator. mercatornet.com At the end of this month, a Toronto man will appear in court charged with abetting suicide. This is not, as you might think, a case of mercy killing — a grieving husband who wants to stop the suffering of his
Jon Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. (Follow him on Substack.) His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington
Liam Hehir Political Commentator The term “misinformation” refers to incorrect, inaccurate or misleading information. “Disinformation” refers to false information spread as a deliberate act of deception. Because the internet has made it so easy to publish and share information, it has made it very easy to spread misinformation and disinformation.
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com The cover of this magazine caught our attention recently. The picture says it all. Hawkes Bay nurses are sick and tired. It is no wonder that someone wearing all that PPE would be sick and tired. Hair cap, goggles, mask and
Axelheart “Music should strike fire from the heart of man and bring tears from the eyes of a woman”. Ludwig van Beethoven I’m not overtly emotional, but my Achilles heel to a ‘stiff upper lip’ is hearing a certain melody or piece of music. Whether you’re musical or
Jane Horan Economic Anthropologist, and contract lecturer University of Auckland New Zealand is home to 28,560 registered charities and some 90,000 not-for-profits without charitable registration. From disability advocacy groups and local theatres to sporting clubs, all do vital work in our communities. Around 89,000 of
Gordon Lightfoot whakatakitimes.nz IMAGINE THAT A 33-year-old man working at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) has interestingly expressed excitement over the prospect of being made redundant by David Seymour’s promise to cut government jobs if elected. The employee, who prefers to remain anonymous,
Steve Goreham Steve Goreham is a speaker, author, and independent columnist on energy, sustainability, climate change, and public policy. More than 100,000 copies of his books are now in print, including his latest, Outside the Green Box: Rethinking Sustainable Development. cfact.org Which is more environmentally friendly — an energy
Fangzhou Wang University of Texas at Arlington theconversation.com In the Netflix documentary “The Tinder Swindler,” victims exposed notorious con artist Simon Leviev, who posed as a wealthy diamond mogul on the popular dating app Tinder to deceive and scam numerous women out of millions of dollars. Leviev is a
Miriam Grossman mercatornet.com This is an excerpt from the introduction to Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist’s Guide Out of the Madness, the latest book by American psychiatrist Miriam Grossman. When I graduated from medical school, I took an oath. I stood up, raised my right hand,
Steven Tucker Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer with over ten books to his name. His next, Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science, comparing the woke pseudoscience of today to the totalitarian pseudoscience of the past, will be published in summer 2023. mercatornet.com Did you know
Mahesh Muralidhar Venture Capitalist commonroomnz.com This article was first published by The Common Room “There is only one word for New Zealand – EPIC!” said Bear Grylls. New Zealand is epic. Our young beautiful country. Our modern-day democracy has punched above its weight and has had the confidence and
Steve Templeton Steve Templeton, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is an Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Indiana University School of Medicine – Terre Haute. His research focuses on immune responses to opportunistic fungal pathogens. brownstone.org During the COVID pandemic, the world was drowned in a flood of hand
Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.
Brian Tamaki It’s criminal that the crime catastrophe is covered up in New Zealand. Shrouded in secrecy, the alarming culture of crime cover-ups in New Zealand is going largely unchecked. Behind it is a troubling alliance among Government, Police, and Media. It’s straight from a movie plot.
Don Brash Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 bassettbrashandhide.com Over the last year or so, house prices in most parts of New Zealand have come back a bit, probably as a result of the relatively rapid rise
