April/May 2025, Ethical Living
Is eating meat wrong?
Our ethics columnist takes on a perennial ethical dilemma
Ethics
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Ethical Living, March 2025
Am I betraying my parents by placing them in assisted living?
Our Moral Compass columnist encourages a reader to move beyond idealized promises
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Ethical Living, June 2024
Is it ethical for Canada to recruit health-care workers from countries with worse healthcare crises?
Canada is trying to solve its staffing crisis by luring doctors who are essential to their own countries' medical care
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Death
Religious leaders sit down with The Observer to talk ethics and death
Against the backdrop of an aging population, advances in medical technology and looming legal battles, eight Winnipeg faith leaders discuss the spiritual nuances of assisted dying
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UCC in Focus
United Church looks at policies for responsible pension investment
Holding shares in companies such as Goldcorp, which has a mine in Guatemala that is under a stop-work order from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, is under discussion
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Science
AI advances lead to thorny ethical questions about fate of humans
Computers are learning so fast on their own that it's not clear how they will shape the future of the species that created them
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Environment
Environment pledges by big business will save the planet, right?
Some critics aren't so sure. They accuse corporations of trying to buy green credentials without doing much to curtail their impact on the plants, animals and water that support life
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Environment
Alberta oil sands spark this generation’s most acute moral dilemmas
When it comes to debating the oil sands, there's no middle ground, just fervent supporters and equally fervent detractors
