Should the federal government approve the Kinder Morgan pipeline? What about the Energy East and Northern Gateway pipelines? Why or why not?
Kate Purchase Liberal strategist “Energy resources are essential to growing our economy and creating well-paying jobs for the middle class, and those working hard to join it. Also, one of the fundamental responsibilities of any Canadian government is to get our resources to market. In the 21st century, getting our resources to market means doing […]
Why a West Coast aquarium is working with the feds to study the Arctic
Not long after the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre first opened its doors six decades ago, a team of adventurous employees and researchers travelled to the Arctic to explore the icy, windswept reaches of Canada’s North. In the years since, our Arctic research expeditions have become an annual practice, with scientists heading north each summer […]
Trade, jobs, economic growth, income equality: is the budget working?
OTTAWA—On Friday, Aug. 5, Statistics Canada released numbers for both jobs and international trade. Both numbers were discouraging and continued a trend of poor economic data. The top line job numbers were a loss of 31,200, but the most disturbing underlying number was that 71,400 full-time jobs were lost while the major gain came in […]
Inuk woman should be among commissioners to MMIW inquiry
Last October, this country elected a new government, a government that promised a future of hope, optimism, and equality for all Canadians. Our prime minister told us that “we defeated the idea that Canadians should be satisfied with less, that good enough is good enough and that better just isn’t possible…in Canada better is always […]
The Arctic is the planet’s canary
In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, before the advent of equipment capable of monitoring the build-up of dangerous gases, miners would take a canary down deep in the mine. Its tiny metabolism was far more sensitive to the gases than were the miners. If the canary keeled over, it was time to get […]
Politics this morning: Trudeau to make youth council announcement
*An important note to our readers: tomorrow’s Wednesday edition will be an online only version of The Hill Times. There will be no physical paper or digital download, but you can still count on full coverage of all the usual insider news, global developments, and opinion pieces on our website, www.hilltimes.com. Happening today in the […]
Canada should restrict access to northern water corridors
The Canadian government should consider placing restrictions on the number of corridors allowed for access to the Arctic waters in order to reduce two important risks: loss of life and environmental impact. The risk of a marine accident in the Arctic is not a theoretical exercise. In August 1996, the Hanseatic cruise ship ran aground […]
Trudeau’s summer just got a lot more complicated after Federal Court decision on Northern Gateway
OTTAWA—On the eve of Canada Day, June 30, the law firm acting for the seven First Nations contesting the Harper cabinet’s approval of the Northern Gateway Pipeline released the Federal Court of Appeal decision made on June 23, 2016, which effectively quashed that approval. The court in a 2-1 decision held that the federal government […]
Food insecurity: Not just a poor country’s problem
We are accustomed to thinking of food security as a poor country’s problem, something for national governments and the United Nations to solve. But a week-long trip to Whitehorse with the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation was a stark reminder of the food-security challenges faced here in Canada. Listening at the first-ever Yukon Food Security Summit, organized by […]
What to expect when the neighbours come to town
It says a lot about Canada’s relations under the previous Conservative government that the annual meeting with our NAFTA partners was delayed by a year because the Conservatives didn’t think the meeting was worth having. The corny slang of the Three Amigos summit wasn’t working; it was more like “two amigos and the other guy.” […]
