Women are essential to the peace process
Women’s rights organizations are doing critical work in Gaza, but are dramatically underfunded.
Hundreds of billions in ‘contingent liabilities’ loom large over Canada
This year’s increase in the deficit is just the first of many payouts of Indigenous contingent liabilities from the backlog of claims accepted in principle but not yet paid.
Justin Trudeau no longer has a mandate to govern, and he doesn’t care
Mandates to govern guide and legitimize political leadership, but Justin Trudeau has never cared about his mandate. Why would he now?
Canada needs a stable democratic partner in South Korea
The success of Korea’s democracy is crucial to Canada’s interests in a rules-based order in the Indo-Pacific.
What Canada needs in its next prime minister
In the future post-Justin Trudeau era, Canada will need someone who understands what the masses feel economically, who recognizes we’re at a perilous moment in our planet’s evolution.
Like it or not, the die is cast
Justin Trudeau’s graceless dithering in the face of the obvious that his time is up sets up two possibilities. The possibility of an ugly rebellion that will force him out, or a non-confidence vote that will trigger an election.
Canada’s immigration detention system violates disability rights
Each year, Canada detains thousands of people on immigration grounds, many of whom are fleeing persecution and traumatic experiences.
My crazy Christmas conspiracy
My Christmas conspiracy theory is that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau decided—long before his dramatic split with former cabinet minister Chrystia Freeland—to resign his position, and that he also has a successor in mind: Mélanie Joly.
The daily news miracle
One of the daily miracles of the media world is that there is always exactly enough news to fill the slot.
All I want for Christmas is publicly funded health care
Medically necessary care should be publicly funded for everyone, not just those who choose to pay, or the 25 per cent with private employer-funded insurance. It’s easier than a pony.
