Wiseman surveys history of Canada’s political parties in engaging new book, Partisan Odysseys
Nelson Wiseman, director of the Canadian studies program at the University of Toronto and a longtime political science professor, says he realized Canadians weren’t terribly aware of some of the historical forces that have shaped our country’s federal political parties, so he wrote Partisan Odysseys: Canada’s Political Parties. The book, published by the University of […]
Cross-party Parliamentarians to urge feds to take strong response to new Hong Kong security law
As Chinese lawmakers have moved forward with national security legislation that threatens Hong Kong’s “one country, two systems” bedrock, Parliamentarians across the partisan spectrum will be participating in a virtual press conference to urge the federal government to take strong action in opposition to the new law. Alongside human rights activists, such as Alex Neve […]
‘The rise of China is a central geoeconomic issue of our time’
The emergence of the coronavirus pandemic has put a spotlight on China’s changing role in the world. It has revealed the crucial role China plays in the dense global supply chain networks of a wide range of industries, raising new anxieties about globalization. It has provoked intense debate about how China handled the outbreak and […]
Flanagan documents how successful First Nations are achieving prosperity
Prior to the 19th century, the large majority of human beings lived in what today would be considered poverty. In all complex societies, an elite stratum used its control of political and economic institutions to enjoy a varied diet, clean water, formal education, and relief from long hours of manual labour, but such luxuries were […]
‘A very difficult few weeks’: MPs pay tribute to Snowbirds fatal crash victim Jennifer Casey
Parliamentarians commemorated the life of a Snowbird public affairs officer following a crash in Kamloops, B.C., which happened less than a month after six members of the Canadian Forces were killed in a helicopter crash off the coast of Greece. Snowbirds spokesperson Captain Jennifer Casey was killed in the crash on May 17 and pilot […]
Breakdown lays out a fulsome set of policy recommendations
An untenable risk for any future major development of resources or related infrastructure must be confronted. Do the Indigenous Peoples of Canada currently possess a de facto veto or not on major infrastructure projects in Canada? At the end of 2018, this issue remained unresolved, and it may yet undo TMX, despite the Trudeau government’s […]
‘Forever in their debt’: MPs mark 75 years since Canada’s liberation of the Netherlands and the end of World War II in Europe
Three quarters of a century ago, the Canadian Army advanced through the Netherlands in 1945 liberating it from nearly five years of Nazi occupation. MPs honoured those Canadians who fought in support of the Dutch liberation, including the more than 7,600 Canadians who died in the Netherlands. “The Liberation of the Netherlands was Canada’s last […]
If action’s further delayed ‘little or no chance of saving English Canada from complete absorption into U.S. cultural ecosystem’: Stursberg
Canadian governments have always known that if there was to be a Canada, there would have to be Canadian media. Since the 1930s, successive administrations, whether Liberal or Conservative, have struggled to strengthen the foundations of Canadian culture, often in opposition to the desires of the United States. They passed laws, created regulations and provided […]
‘Like no one I have ever met’: former Canadian ambassador to U.S. Allan Gotlieb dies at 92
By the time he finished serving as Canada’s top diplomat in Washington, D.C., for one Progressive Conservative and two Liberal prime ministers, Allan Gotlieb was noted as having an expansive understanding of the Canada-U.S. relationship. Mr. Gotlieb died on April 18, at the age of 92. From 1981 to 1989, he served as Canada’s ambassador […]
Inside the Campaign: new book offers a rare glimpse into the inner workings of elections
Most Canadians are familiar with the final products of political campaigns, from party platforms to political ads, but much goes on behind the scenes to get those wheels in motion—and keep the wheels of government turning in the meantime—the details of which only a comparative few understand, and which a new book seeks to demystify. “The […]
