From a national dental care plan to foreign residential property speculators being temporarily banned to taxing banks on record profits, the 2022 Canadian federal budget maps out how 56 billion dollars in spending will grow our economy and make life more affordable for Canadians.

We discuss short and long term changes that will likely force us to reimagine work. Currently, we’re already experiencing the joys of remote work. On the horizon we might encounter shorter weeks and results based evaluations (instead of mandated 8 hour days). Further off, the rapidly progressing capabilities of AI may render a vast chunk of humanity unemployable. What happens then?

We discuss the obvious trend of politicians attempting to answer questions without really answering them. This evasiveness is harmful to transparency and dumbs down public conversations. What’s the solution?

We discuss various occurrences of growing negative sentiment towards Russia people. A distinction must be made between the Russia Government, Putin and innocent civilians who just happen to be born into a draconian regime. If we fail to make this distinction, the social consequences that continue to be levied are blind. There are certainly villains that exist, we just need to calibrate our aim precisely to capture them while avoiding innocents as much as possible.

We discuss Deep VZN. A project launched by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The objective is to build better preparedness for future global health threats by detecting, preventing and responding to unidentified infectious diseases around the world.

Although appealing at first glance, we dive into the details and explain the great danger posed by public virus sequencing of pandemic-grade threats.

Russia has commenced a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. We explore the early data regarding casualties & collateral damage, discuss Putin’s supposed reasons for conflict, explain why warfare is such a terror and close with thinking about potential paths towards as peaceful a resolution as possible.

Was the decision of the Trudeau government to enact the Emergencies Act a legitimate response to the Trucker’s Convoy (Protests)? We discuss this today and refer to the conclusion drawn by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

We explore Friedrich Nietzsche’s famous claim “God is dead”. This is both interesting and profound especially when held in context with the entirety of the passage. Topics such as tribalism, nihilism, meaning and our human limits arise.

Why does free speech matter? We take apart this inquiry from first principles. Then, we expand the conversation into realms including societal maturity, our path forward as a country, Joe Rogan, the threat of tyranny from within, camaraderie and more.

Psypost writes that an older study which suggested personal happiness tied to money tapers off once a person earns $75,000 may be incorrect. Newer research points towards wellbeing increasing steadily with income and not plateauing. We explore the research and distill insights from the report. Should your wellbeing infinitely scale with income? Do the different methods between the studies impact the results? Find out.