An apolitical blueprint for achieving Canada’s climate targets
Our climate policy should be responsive and objective, ensuring that political winds do not sway essential action.
Fifty years after Canada’s plutonium mishap in India, is history repeating itself?
On May 18, 1974, India shocked the world by conducting a test atomic bomb explosion of plutonium, obtained from a ‘peaceful’ research reactor that was gifted by the Canadian government in 1954.
Poilievre’s notwithstanding clause gambit
If Pierre Poilievre keeps his focus on fixing the economy, his side musings about how he might use the notwithstanding clause likely won’t raise many eyebrows.
Why common mitigation efforts are not solutions to the climate crisis
Climate warming in any year is the result of cumulative carbon emissions over the previous 50 to 100 years, so any process that allows emissions to continue at current rates dooms us to catastrophe.
EV investments paving the way for Canada and Japan’s ‘new chapter’: ambassador
Honda and Asahi Kasei’s new projects will be a game-changer, and are proof that Canada and Japan are taking a new direction in EV production around the world.
Political disconnect leaving Liberals far behind
It’s not at all clear that the Trudeau Liberals are playing the same game as their opponents.
Today, the truth may not set you free
Ideology and propaganda overwhelm discourse, which is disheartening for those who believe in public debate based on genuine evidence.
Now is the workplace of our discontent
In what’s becoming an increasingly frequent scenario, the federal government is at odds with its unionized employees. This time around, the ire stems from the feds’ back-to-office mandate for public servants, who, as of September, must report to their out-of-home desk at least three days per week. The Public Service Alliance of Canada is promising […]
Police brutality is a feature of democratic Canada, not a bug
Once the ruling class sniffs change and dissent, they send in their goons to force those opposing actors to fall in line.
Consequences for civil disobedience rooted in context, says CJPME rep
Re: “The right to protest doesn’t come without consequences,” (The Hill Times, May 8, p. 6). Andrew Caddell’s recent column baselessly asserts that “the funds and organization behind the encampments and anti-Israel disinformation on social media, come from Russia and Iran.” No serious journalist or expert has promoted this theory, much less found any evidence […]
