Switzerland is a country that has managed to remain remarkably stable—the Swiss Franc is a byword for stability. It follows a formal policy of neutrality, established in 1815, and it has not been in a state of international conflict since that time.

When income tax was first introduced here in Canada in 1917, the new Income Tax Act ran just shy of 4000 words. It was a simple document outlining a simple law. Since then, the rules and regulations have ballooned to just over 1 million words.

One of the challenges that first responders like paramedics or firefighters face when they arrive on the scene of an accident is to assess quickly what is the injury—the greatest hazard—that poses risk to human life.

It’s easy to be hypocritical, and we’re all guilty of it sometimes. A few years ago, Florida’s Sun Sentinel examined the records of 3,915 officers who had traveled on toll roads in 2011.

It’s a challenging thing to create a new society. It does, of course, happen from time to time. One of the world’s newest nations is South Sudan, which declared independence in 2011.