Answering a call for help can save a life, but what comes next is just as critical
With 12 Canadians dying by suicide every day, the government has set up a national three-digit helpline. But a compassionate response can’t end there. It demands the availability of real help for Canadians in mental distress, before and after they hang up the phone.
Poilievre should steer clear of far-right extremists
The last thing Canada needs is a more polarized country, and Poilievre is playing with fire if he continues to court the far right.
We need more than three-word slogans from Poilievre: reader
For more than a year, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has been hammering home a three-word slogan, “Axe the tax.” He recently added another: “Spike the hike.” Since the carbon tax was increased April 1, this slogan did not work as he intended. However, consider this: to quote from the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, one of the definitions for […]
Dyer’s take on Gaza-Israel war is unsupportable speculation, writes Shapiro
Re: “A pantomime crisis, not a real war,” (The Hill Times, April 16, by Gwynne Dyer). Thousands of rockets have been launched and are continuing to be launched at Israel from Gaza and Lebanon by Iranian proxy armies driving close to 200,000 Israelis from their homes, and Gwynne Dyer doesn’t think that this is a […]
CBC, Radio-Canada journalists are fiercely independent in their reporting: CBC’s Poulter
Sheila Copps is wrong about CBC journalism. In her opinion piece, “Feds give CBC a budget boost,” (The Hill Times, April 22), Copps makes an outrageous suggestion about CBC journalism. She writes: “It is hard to see how a CBC on the verge of extinction would cover an election campaign without bias. It is unlikely […]
The result of the oppressive synergy of sexism and racism
The families of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran have been involved in a long battle to search a Winnipeg landfill for their loved ones’ remains. These families warn that women, girls, and gender-diverse individuals find themselves in precarious situations, seeking shelter and safety in a province that historically offers little refuge.
Spirit of Anzac looms large, 109 years on
In Canada, the heavy toll of Parliament’s decisions is most often contemplated in November, when red poppies are pinned to lapels. But last week Ottawa hosted a smaller ceremony to commemorate the most solemn event on Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand’s calendar: Anzac Day.
Moving beyond Band-Aid solutions to deliver health care fit for kids
The Conference Board of Canada estimates the annual costs to treat anxiety and depression in young people to be $4-billion, which balloons to nearly $1-trillion over a lifetime without timely interventions.
Redefining the frontlines: the battle for democracy in an era of transnational interference
The foreign interference inquiry focuses mainly on election meddling, whereas foreign interference extends to surveillance, threats, physical violence, extortion, and deception through disinformation. Individuals in Canada and their relatives abroad are targeted.
Coral reef condoms: how to save a dying ecosystem
The efforts making the most progress is an attempt at ‘assisted’ evolution. It’s really a glorified form of selective breeding, choosing the most heat-resistant of each generation of coral polyps as the parents of the next.
