The ramifications of the demise of Energy East
OTTAWA—I don’t understand why people believe that western Canadian separation is dead. It appears, at least on the federal level, that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals believe they can ignore Alberta and now Saskatchewan. In the past, the only province that threatened separation was Quebec. However, when Pierre Trudeau was prime minister the […]
Is Canada really committed to coal phase out? Canada needs ‘clean hands’ if it expects others to act
Just what is Canada’s position on coal? Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna was recently in London announcing an alliance with the United Kingdom that “will champion a global alliance on the transition from unabated coal-fired electricity at next month’s United Nations climate change meetings in Bonn, Germany. From cleaner air to public health, to sustainability, […]
Singh should have answered Milewski’s questions more definitively, says letter-writer
Re: “Jagmeet, or Jagmeet Singh?” (The Hill Times, Oct. 18, p. 2). Rather than printing frivolous pieces like this, it would be appropriate to deal instead with the issue of NDP leader Jagmeet Singh not clearly answering CBC’s Terry Milewski on whether he condemns Sikhs who celebrate Talwinder Singh Parmar, the man believed to be […]
Weinstein scandal exposes hypocrisy of Hollywood elite
TORONTO—There are many reasons why rape victims don’t speak out against their attackers. However, focusing mainly on this aspect would only distract from the perpetrators of these heinous crimes and its causes. We shouldn’t waste time judging victims for waiting to come forward. A rape is a rape, regardless of the time it takes the victim […]
Canada’s innovation equation
I moved to Canada nine years ago to pursue an incredible opportunity: to bring together brilliant (mainly young) scientists from all over the world to pursue fundamental questions about the universe. That was the opportunity at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. I believed then that we were entering a golden age of discovery, and that […]
Investing in the north is investing in Canada’s future
“Political equality cannot come without economic equality.” That’s a quote from a recent discussion paper on the Arctic Policy Framework entitled, We Are One Mind. Funded by the Gordon Foundation, We Are One Mind is the product of a collaborative effort by three northern youth groups—Dene Naho, based in the N.W.T.; Our Voices, primarily based […]
Time to toss investor-state dispute settlement into trash bin of history, says letter-writer
Our Canadian government should be able to pass laws that protect our environment and our people without the threat of lawsuits from companies that want to make a profit at the expense of our land and our health. This is the right of every sovereign nation. Please use the current NAFTA talks to renegotiate the […]
North embedded in Canadian psyche
Our friend, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, former chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, captured the spirit of the Arctic when she said the land, ice, and snow is a training ground for developing your sense of self and your character. You’re being taught patience, you’re being taught to be courageous and bold at the right time. We […]
What not to call digitally driven authoritarianism
The bad news is that democracy—having undergone a series of attacks, degradations, and incriminations—is a little under the weather at the moment. The good news is Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping just happen to have a Plan B. After years of borderless, cyber-enhanced covert warfare against the system of government whose magnetic pull helped precipitate […]
Human Rights Subcommittee must hear from affected locals in Latin American mining study
Re: “House Subcommittee on International Human Rights has heard from local activists, community activists,” (The Hill Times, Oct. 23, p. 8). MP Michael Levitt’s defence of the skewed hearings that the House Subcommittee on International Human Rights has undertaken concerning human rights surrounding resource extraction in Latin America fails to address the problems identified in […]
