Bill C-20 is a missed opportunity for real accountability
As Senate hearings on Bill C-20 wrap up, it’s crucial that lawmakers take accountability concerns seriously. This bill is a critical chance to build trust between law enforcement, border services, and the communities they serve—but it must done right.
The case for strengthening Canada’s humanitarian workforce
The value volunteers contribute to our disaster response capacity has been overlooked and oversimplified by both federal and provincial and territorial governments.
Canada needs to up the ante against copper thieves
When copper wire theft occurs, telecom, cable, and internet services are disrupted, putting the safety of Canadians at risk.
CAF’s fear of publicity shouldn’t trump justice
Kristen Adams’ courage has exposed how the military’s fear of media coverage overrode its sense of responsibility to its employees.
Tripling of boreal wildfire emissions since 2001 show ‘growing vulnerability’ of Canada’s northern forests: new U.K. study
Meanwhile, firefighters and wildfire survivors gather in Ottawa to call for stopping ‘the problem at the source’ by moving to clean energy and better forest management.
May calls for full-blown public inquiry a decade after Hill shooting
It’s ‘a uniquely Canadian thing that something that significant would happen and there’d never be an inquiry,’ says Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, while Kevin Vickers told the Ottawa Citizen he’s surprised there’s never been a parliamentary review, and that witness statements and security footage should be released.
Security clearance politicking reflects a minority Parliament on its ‘last legs’: observers
Many of the questions during an emergency debate on India’s alleged interference in Canadian politics turned instead to Poilievre’s refusal to seek a security clearance.
‘We stand on the shoulders of giants’: MPs pay homage to Cirillo, Vincent 10 years after Hill attack
On the 10th anniversary of that fateful day, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, NDP MP Charlie Angus, Bloc MP Louis Plamondon, and Green Leader Elizabeth May delivered statements remembering how the attack unfolded on Oct. 22, 2014.
Through their eyes, in their words: first-hand accounts from the day of the 2014 Parliament Hill shooting
‘I heard a thunderous boom through the Rotunda and saw people running towards me’: revisiting the accounts of the people on the Hill on Oct. 22, 2014.
Poor procurement won’t keep our soldiers warm at night
Army personnel are being left out in the cold after new sleeping bags fail to live up to the standards of their 1960s predecessors.
