Content Type: Opinion

Budget 2025 is more of the same

The budget has positive measures, but it fails to provide a credible plan for the future. What is the Carney government’s vision for the future?

Canadians are voting with their feet, and America’s not on the ballot

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has not said much recently, but the number of Canadians visiting his state has hit a post-pandemic low. The drop was 26 per cent. The Canadian travel boycott is hitting Florida where it hurts: in the pocketbook. 

Schedule ‘A’ and the status of budget 2025: letter writer

A Schedule ‘A’ in the context of a federal budget or appropriation act is the detailed annex that accompanies a money bill, laying out exactly how appropriations are allocated—department by department, program by program. It is not a mere formality: without it, Parliament would be asked to approve spending without legal authority or specific detail. […]

America is getting to be a strange country

If Donald Trump has nothing to hide, if, in fact, he wanted to back up his claim that he neither participated in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking, or even knew about it, there is a simple solution. Give the green light to release all the Epstein files held by the U.S. Department of Justice.

A debt of gratitude for Ivan Zinger, correctional investigator

Five federally operated regional treatment centres are ‘not fit for the purpose,’ and Ivan Zinger argues the Correctional Service of Canada should not even be in the mental health business, but should hand that to the experts. It’s hard to disagree with the logic.

New list of major projects is good, but the hard part will be actually getting them done

This is a problem across Canadian society. We have become so risk averse and conflict averse that we’ve geared shockingly large percentages of our state institutions into being effectively machines that can only say ‘no’.

Floor-crossings are controversial, but not necessarily a political kiss of death

It’s uncertain if Chris d’Entremont can successfully carry the banner as a Liberal. But he joins a long line of defectors who make covering the House of Commons interesting.

A budget that meets the moment

The financial plan tabled on Nov. 4 it is a statement of intent that Canada will compete, build, and lead as a strong, secure, and sovereign nation.

Carney is unwilling to expend any political capital to make the case for Canadian climate leadership

It’s time for Mark Carney to recapture that mojo that transformed him from a grey banker to an internationally renown climate champion. Not to burnish his own reputation, but to secure a better future for all of us. 

Readiness is built, not assumed: preparing our health system for crisis

When we expand burn care, critical care capacity, or national co-ordination, we are also better equipped to respond to industrial or construction accidents, natural disasters, and future pandemics.