We need a Team Canada approach to safeguarding our vital interests during the Trump presidency
We should not undermine our Charter of Rights and Freedoms by the increasingly excessive use of the notwithstanding clause against the society’s most vulnerable, unless we are willing to nurture our own versions of a northern autocracy that will destroy our democratic foundations.
A missed opportunity in the U.S. election
The existential threat of the climate emergency got short shrift during the American presidential race.
Haiti’s ruling council is falling apart
Created from rival factions in April, Haiti’s nine-person Transitional Presidential Council has fired the nation’s interim prime minister.
I live with Parkinson’s. I’m telling Ottawa: we need funding now
The economic cost of the disease is $3.3-billion, with 90 per cent borne by affected families. Fixing access to the Disability Tax Credit could help.
Feds must reject advance requests for MAID
Each of Canada’s expansion to assisted dying laws includes a subtle implication that certain lives are not worth living.
Investing in innovation: the future of animal-free toxicity testing in Canada
New methods not only better protect human health, but also spare countless animals from terrible suffering.
U.S. election results offer a lesson for all parties
There are plenty of questions being asked in the wake of the United States’ Nov. 5 presidential election. And while the Democratic Party does its own soul-searching, politicos north of the 49th parallel are making inquiries of their own. Among them: are there lessons we can learn from our American cousins? Should we be trying […]
The world changed on Nov. 5
For Canadians, the potential impact of another Trump administration could be nothing less than a turning point in the country’s modern history.
Read the room. Know your audience. Get a grip
The Democrats got lost on a moral crusade as Trump successfully peddled shopping-channel solutions.
Cause for pessimism and optimism after the U.S. election
Trump’s victory may have murky implications for Canada, but there were a few bright spots among other U.S. races.
