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- If remembrance is to endure, it must evolve from static commemoration to active engagement. Schools and youth organizations can play a critical role here.
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- If remembrance is to endure, it must evolve from static commemoration to active engagement. Schools and youth organizations can play a critical role here.
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- We need to truly transform our economy when so much around us is changing so fast. We need an arm’s length council to independently monitor how well we're doing, what works, and how we can do better.
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- We need to truly transform our economy when so much around us is changing so fast. We need an arm’s length council to independently monitor how well we're doing, what works, and how we can do better.
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- Cuts should focus on non-essential administrative or back-office functions that don’t directly contribute to service delivery.
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- Cuts should focus on non-essential administrative or back-office functions that don’t directly contribute to service delivery.
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- Rose LeMay
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- The Non-Insured Health Benefits program covers less than provincial and territorial health care, even though the Canada Health Act stipulates that Canadians will have roughly equivalent care across the country.
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- The Non-Insured Health Benefits program covers less than provincial and territorial health care, even though the Canada Health Act stipulates that Canadians will have roughly equivalent care across the country.
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- In the budget discussions, it might be worth remembering that reconciliation means fixing systems that are broken. This includes wildly huge administrative budgets.
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- When reconciliation is a value as well as a necessity in order to uphold Canada’s place in the world, then it doesn't get bumped off the priority list in budgetary discussions. It retains its place, just as Indigenous Peoples retain their position as key partners in this country we call Canada.
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- Tim Powers
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- Resistance isn’t futile when it comes to the U.S. president, but it has to be clever and well calculated.
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- Resistance isn’t futile when it comes to the U.S. president, but it has to be clever and well calculated.
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- Scott Taylor
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- Before looking to enlist hundreds of thousands more soldiers, the CAF needs to start taking proper care of those already in uniform.
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- Before looking to enlist hundreds of thousands more soldiers, the CAF needs to start taking proper care of those already in uniform.
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- Sheila Copps
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- Jean Chrétien belled the Alberta cat in a way that everyone can understand: 'They never sold as much oil as they have today and they’re complaining as if they are going bankrupt?'
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- Jean Chrétien belled the Alberta cat in a way that everyone can understand: 'They never sold as much oil as they have today and they’re complaining as if they are going bankrupt?'
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- With referendums now being threatened in Alberta and Quebec, the current prime minister and his cabinet should remember what we almost forgot: 'Les absents
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- Quebec Conservatives are now privately speaking out against their leader to the media. Whether these MPs are worried enough to organize their delegations to get to Calgary in January remains to be seen.
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- Susan Riley
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- For many Canadians, if an election would rid the country of Pierre Poilievre’s snarky social media hits, his obsessive focus on enemies, his hypocrisy—lamenting the growing number of families using food banks, while living in a taxpayer-funded mansion with chef, driver and domestic help—they could hold the election on Dec. 25.
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- For many Canadians, if an election would rid the country of Pierre Poilievre’s snarky social media hits, his obsessive focus on enemies, his hypocrisy—lamenting the growing number of families using food banks, while living in a taxpayer-funded mansion with chef, driver and domestic help—they could hold the election on Dec. 25.
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- The question: is corporate Canada ready to do its part? It certainly won’t refuse emergency funding to see it through the current uncertainty. But
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- Whatever the outcome of the NDP leadership campaign, Avi Lewis is a lively, intelligent player who could bring confidence and colour to a lustreless party. And he is definitely a match for both Pierre Poilievre and Mark Carney on a debate stage.
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- David Crane
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- We need to truly transform our economy when so much around us is changing so fast. We need an arm’s length council to independently monitor how well we're doing, what works, and how we can do better.
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- We need to truly transform our economy when so much around us is changing so fast. We need an arm’s length council to independently monitor how well we're doing, what works, and how we can do better.
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- Gerry Nicholls
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- The environmental movement has suffered a loss.
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- Watch for provincial governments to attack Carney for not doing enough in the budget. Mind you, none of this means Carney won’t survive the onslaught. It
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- A recent study by the Canadian Digital Media Research Network, noted that '[social media] influencers, not parties, or newsrooms, dominated distribution and attention across platforms during [this year's federal election] campaign.' Should all of this scare us? Maybe.
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- Michael Harris
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- It's one thing that Pierre Poilievre continues to lag behind Mark Carney as the preferred choice for prime minister. But when a member of your own caucus crosses the floor, it's an entirely different matter. Then along comes Matt Jeneroux who announced he's resigning.
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- It's one thing that Pierre Poilievre continues to lag behind Mark Carney as the preferred choice for prime minister. But when a member of your own caucus crosses the floor, it's an entirely different matter. Then along comes Matt Jeneroux who announced he's resigning.
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- Much better to support leaders like Doug Ford when they are right—and stand up to the bully.
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- It’s also time we dropped our anti-China bias. With a financially stressed America retreating into self-centred protectionism, it is time for Canada to assert its independence in a world of new allies and new opportunities.
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- Gwynne Dyer
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- Money is tight, wars are a huge distraction, and the climate has become unfashionable, so we’ll just have to wait and hope for better times.
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- Money is tight, wars are a huge distraction, and the climate has become unfashionable, so we’ll just have to wait and hope for better times.
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- Les Whittington
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- The historic budget will forever mark the end of Canada’s era of economic integration over 75 years with its erstwhile U.S. ally.
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- The historic budget will forever mark the end of Canada’s era of economic integration over 75 years with its erstwhile U.S. ally.
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- Erica Ifill
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- It is quite evident that we are barrelling towards economic gloom, and creating a society of haves and have nots.
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- It is quite evident that we are barrelling towards economic gloom, and creating a society of haves and have nots.
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- The Tories keep electing leaders who can’t adjust to changing political landscapes, or can’t read a room.
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- The prime minister is doing well on the leadership front relative to his opponents, but his early stats on community outreach, combatting fascism, and Indigenous reconciliation are poor.
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- Bhagwant Sandhu
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- Mark Carney’s first budget displays the prime minister’s administrative instincts: control the narrative, project calm, and preserve credibility in bond markets.
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- Mark Carney’s first budget displays the prime minister’s administrative instincts: control the narrative, project calm, and preserve credibility in bond markets.
