Nuclear disarmament must be a priority for the next Canadian government
Much like the global climate emergency, the continued existence of nuclear weapons constitutes a clear and present threat to human civilization. But if the topics being addressed by party leaders and platforms during this federal election are any indication, nuclear disarmament would seem to be a non-issue in the Canadian political landscape. Today nearly 14,000 […]
Has Canada’s populist finally arrived?
TORONTO—Maxime Bernier and the People’s Party of Canada are a new addition to the Canadian election cycle and people are having a hard time defining him and his party. The word “populist” is by no means perfect, but still a step up over nebulous terms like “far-right” or “alt-right.” To call Bernier “Trump light” would […]
Politics This Morning: Polls put Liberals, Conservatives neck and neck as campaign wanes; O’Toole in two Atlantic provinces
Good Thursday morning. Welcome to day 33 of the campaign, A pair of polls out yesterday put the Liberals and Conservatives neck and neck with just a few days to go. An Ipsos poll for Global News has the two tied at 32 per cent of the vote, pulling from a survey of 2,001 Canadians […]
Need for national pharmacare plan just as urgent as it was in past elections
Another election is fast going by and still no pharmacare plan. The case for it has been well-documented in study after evidence-based study for nearly 25 years. So nearly a quarter of Canadian households will continue to be unable to afford to fill their prescriptions. Canada will remain the only country in the world with […]
Federal party positions: should new nuclear reactors be part of a climate action plan?
The nuclear industry lobby in Canada is conducting an intensive campaign for federal funding to build new nuclear reactors–so-called “small modular nuclear reactors” or SMNRs–claiming they are required for climate action. The federal government is boosting the industry campaign, with Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan famously revealing his unfamiliarity with the considerable research demonstrating that net zero carbon emissions can […]
This abominable scam of a climate election
GIBSONS, B.C.—The pollsters report that climate change is Canadians’ top election concern. The extreme weather—the heat dome, the wildfires, flooding, and even unseasonably cold summer weather—and the dire new IPCC report have galvanized attention. But concern is skin deep: all the parties’ climate platform policies are grossly insufficient, the climate villains are still in firm […]
Green Party targets Prince Edward Island seats in rare campaign trip by leader Annamie Paul
Green Party Leader Annamie Paul’s trip to Prince Edward Island is evidence that the party believes it can make inroads in the province, according to two political professors and a former party member, who say the party could make gains in at least one of the province’s four ridings after forming official opposition provincially in […]
Fixing post-secondary education key to fixing social inequities
This past February, Laurentian University—an important institution for francophone, Indigenous, and Northern Ontario students—declared insolvency and drastically reduced jobs and programs, cutting mathematics, midwifery, and more. The significance of this story has not been lost on the federal political parties during a federal election. In a tight race for votes in a city devastated by […]
Erin O’Toole, the Man of Rubber
KAMOURASKA, QUE.—“I will give Quebec the powers of a nation.” Quick: what Quebec nationalist said that? Was it premier Maurice Duplessis in the 1950s, PQ premier René Lévesque in the 1970s, or his successor premier Jacques Parizeau in the 1990s? Nope, none of the above. It was Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole, in his “contract” […]
Rising support for far-right People’s Party unlikely to trouble Tories, say strategists and experts, as O’Toole makes a pitch for the centre
With support for the far-right People’s Party growing according to some polls, the impact on the Conservatives is muted due to the party’s stronghold in regions in which the rising support is strongest, say analysts. Support for Maxime Bernier’s People’s Party of Canada (PPC) has grown over the course of the campaign to 6.2 per […]
