- Ukrainian morale has already taken a battering because of the capricious stop-and-start character of U.S. military and financial aid.
- Ukrainian morale has already taken a battering because of the capricious stop-and-start character of U.S. military and financial aid.
- The plastics industry recognizes that we cannot continue treating plastics as an afterthought once we have used them. Plastics belong in the economy, not in the environment.
- The plastics industry recognizes that we cannot continue treating plastics as an afterthought once we have used them. Plastics belong in the economy, not in the environment.
- If MPs felt the same fear that Indigenous peoples do when they see an RCMP officer, maybe—just maybe—we’d see some urgency.
- If MPs felt the same fear that Indigenous peoples do when they see an RCMP officer, maybe—just maybe—we’d see some urgency.
- Jokes about murderers and the real risks to Indigenous women is not comedy, it’s monetized hate speech.
- When we talk about the elimination of racism, health care and mental health should be at the top of the list in order to atone for the sins of racism and the differential treatment for Indigenous peoples, and to fix it. We’re still waiting.
- The Liberals are getting to a place where they need to decide if they are going to stumble into an election walloping, or do something about it.
- The Liberals are getting to a place where they need to decide if they are going to stumble into an election walloping, or do something about it.
- The massive mountain the feds need to overcome for success is what seems to be an already deeply ingrained frustration with the prime minister,
- During the lead up to former prime minister Brian Mulroney’s funeral service, the strength and decency of his family were striking.
- Only a foolish military analyst would hail the recent defence policy update as a solid building block upon which to rebuild our badly depleted CAF.
- Only a foolish military analyst would hail the recent defence policy update as a solid building block upon which to rebuild our badly depleted CAF.
- Perhaps the most important detail to remember is that this is a projected 20-year plan, which is unlikely to survive any change in government.
- To many Canadians, Vimy Ridge has become the symbolic birthplace of where and when Canada became a truly independent nation, and shed its colonial past.
- Fasten your seatbelts. Canada is in for a long election run.
- Fasten your seatbelts. Canada is in for a long election run.
- With weekly hauls seeking donations of up to $1,725 and that kind of cash coming in, Pierre Poilievre will able to keep spending without
- Thanks to their agreement with the New Democratic Party, the Liberals now have a year to aggressively sell its vision to Canadians. And that doesn’t involve an axe-the-tax.
- Canadian politicians at all levels have a choice: continue supporting a still-lucrative but damaging fossil fuel industry, or summon the courage and foresight to boost funding for the clean, proven technologies they claim to favour.
- Canadian politicians at all levels have a choice: continue supporting a still-lucrative but damaging fossil fuel industry, or summon the courage and foresight to boost funding for the clean, proven technologies they claim to favour.
- Today’s politics is entirely personality and performances. The bickering plays out like an annoying soundtrack, and the temptation to tune it out can be
- The election of Wab Kinew, the first modern-day Indigenous premier of Manitoba, signals a welcome departure from the usual fed-prov scenario: premiers fighting Ottawa over every bland federal attempt at helping their citizens.
- The government presented another transactional budget that seeks to send an 'all’s well' kind of message when we need a frank and strategic budget that is open to Canadians about what we must do.
- The government presented another transactional budget that seeks to send an 'all’s well' kind of message when we need a frank and strategic budget that is open to Canadians about what we must do.
- Most of Canada’s young businesses with growth potential and proprietary technology can easily be acquired without consideration of the wider consequences for the country's future.
- Young people's high level of unhappiness should be taken very seriously, not just because of their lack of confidence in their futures, but also because it is a serious vote of non-confidence in our nation's future.
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- How do you combat wistfulness for the past when you can’t offer a better future?
- How do you combat wistfulness for the past when you can’t offer a better future?
- When the next federal election rolls around, Pierre Poilievre won’t be hoping a stronger NDP will weaken the Liberals. He’ll be hoping a weaker
- Justin Trudeau and the carbon tax are intertwined, and his political unpopularity is putting the whole concept of a carbon tax on death’s door.
- The infamous Mafia don of the Gambino crime family became an unlikely media star. He was so bad he was good.
- The infamous Mafia don of the Gambino crime family became an unlikely media star. He was so bad he was good.
- Netanyahu’s political pot is boiling over. If and when the public decides a politician is more concerned about his political survival than the national interest, his time
- The quadruple-indicted presidential candidate, facing 88 felony counts, has exhibited his endlessly imaginative financial genius yet again. He has figured out a way to monetize God.
- The idea that all Hindus share the same grievances and goals is just ‘culture-war’ lies, and caste is finally taking its rightful place on India’s political agenda. It may be too late to turn back the BJP juggernaut, but fascism is not necessarily India’s future.
- The idea that all Hindus share the same grievances and goals is just ‘culture-war’ lies, and caste is finally taking its rightful place on India’s political agenda. It may be too late to turn back the BJP juggernaut, but fascism is not necessarily India’s future.
- The obvious way for Israel’s prime minister to escape from the dilemma in the Gaza Strip was to make the war bigger by dragging
- Conflict with Iran could serve the interests of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu very well. For Netanyahu is running out of road.
- From an enemy of organized labour, Poilievre now depicts himself as something akin to the saviour of Canada’s workers.
- From an enemy of organized labour, Poilievre now depicts himself as something akin to the saviour of Canada’s workers.
- The growing disparity in wealth between homeowners and those who cannot afford to buy into the residential lottery has become a pressing matter of
- The Ontario government has deeply disappointed anti-violence advocates by refusing to implement the key recommendation from the inquest jury on the murders of Nathalie Warmerdam, Anastasia Kuzyk, and Carol Culleton.
- Relief requires a short-term solution because an election is coming, and Bill C-56 ain’t it. In fact, I would go as far as calling it useless.
- Relief requires a short-term solution because an election is coming, and Bill C-56 ain’t it. In fact, I would go as far as calling it useless.
- The feds are relying on neoliberal economic policies of letting the market decide to build affordable housing. Well, the market decided we should all
- When the standing of authority is threatened by its own deception, the coalescence of public trust around that authority disintegrates.
- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s challenge will be avoiding ideologies and instead relying on policy realism for his foreign affairs approach.
- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s challenge will be avoiding ideologies and instead relying on policy realism for his foreign affairs approach.
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- Interestingly, common sense has a long political etymology.