Meeting feds’ ‘ambitious’ RCMP hiring pledge will require ‘imaginative’ ideas, says advisory board chair
The Liberals have pledged $1.7-billion to hire 1,000 RCMP personnel over the next four years as the force faces a vacancy rate of 7.7 per cent, representing more than 1,400 jobs outside of that hiring push.
Follow P.E.I.’s lead: Canada needs a national inquiry into China’s influence
P.E.I.’s call for an inquiry is proof that even provinces removed from the country’s geopolitical epicentres are feeling the ripple effects of foreign influence.
Carney government promises to spend $81.8-billion over five years on defence
The funding boost is a part of Canada’s commitment to meet spending targets set by NATO.
The CAF’s emotional apology for racism
The general consensus at the Oct. 30 ceremony was that this emotional apology is a starting point, not the closure of an historical chapter.
Current and former MPs call for united front to fight back against Trump’s continuing threat to the country, but say House is too polarized
As U.S. President Donald Trump upends decades of progress in the world, it also creates an opportunity for Canada to show global leadership, says politicos. But Canada also needs to be united.
Douglas Roche: why ‘much of my public career has been marked by dissent, and [why] I’m not stopping now’
I dissent from the wild disproportion of what the world spends on arms and what it spends on development. I dissent from the anti-humanitarian policies of war for peace. I dissent from the perpetuation of poverty through the greed of the rich. I dissent from the despoliation of the planet by short-sighted industrialism. Most of all, I dissent from the fabric of lies spun by the proponents of nuclear weapons who would have us believe that these heinous instruments of mass murder make us safer.
Veterans raise inaugural poppy flag on Parliament Hill
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From New York City: a day at a No Kings rally, and a hope for more than tepid politics
American mainstream politics may be offering little hope, but prayers and non-violence in the streets in great numbers offer signs of promise. I do think that’s what I witnessed at Central Park and in Times Square.
Drone warfare is here. Canada must prepare
As this technology evolves at breakneck speed, Canada risks being caught flat-footed.
In bid to grow overseas, feds can’t forget to protect the people at home
As relations rebuild with the Indian and Chinese governments, the Canadian government should be working just as hard to fulfill promises to protect people at home from transnational repression.
