Military mutiny or political collapse: Ukraine is running out of options
Ukrainian morale has already taken a battering because of the capricious stop-and-start character of U.S. military and financial aid.
Feds should act fast on potential judge residency rule repeal
Among the 2024 federal budget’s 416-pages are a handful of commitments aimed at tackling the federal judicial appointment backlog. There are currently 65 federal judicial vacancies across Canada, representing roughly 6.5 per cent of the 995 full-time positions. While that’s an improvement from one year ago, when, as of May 2023, there were 88 vacancies, […]
The personal transformation of Pierre Poilievre
From an enemy of organized labour, Poilievre now depicts himself as something akin to the saviour of Canada’s workers.
Buried in the budget: a potential breakthrough in meeting Canada’s net-zero goals
Budget 2024’s support of carbon removal procurement as a climate solution is a welcome breath of fresh air.
The CAQ’s language shell game fooled everyone
A report last week from the Office québécois de la langue française indicates the status of the French language since 2017 has been ‘stable.’
Feds’ groceries bill is worth less than the paper on which it’s printed
Relief requires a short-term solution because an election is coming, and Bill C-56 ain’t it. In fact, I would go as far as calling it useless.
We need to bring back extensive urban, inter-urban rail and buses: letter writer
Re: “EV battery fires are a global problem that we need to address in Canada,” (The Hill Times, April 15, opinion piece). I agree with the opinion expressed by Josipa Petrunic that some planning for eventual fires needs to be done. The author points out stricter controls on battery design and sourcing. However, I think the […]
Funding for Manitoba landfill search welcome, but First Nations-led response still needed
My office is still waiting to hear whether the First Nations-led response noted in our reports will be given the utmost consideration.
Correcting the record on Bell’s restructuring: BCE exec
Re: “Should telecommunications be nationalized?” (The Hill Times, April 17, opinion piece, p. 3). Last week’s opinion piece in The Hill Times authored by Mark Hancock, national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, contained inaccuracies concerning the recent restructuring at Bell, which need to be corrected. To be clear, none of the recently […]
All eyes on Ottawa: the world comes together to address plastic pollution
The plastics industry recognizes that we cannot continue treating plastics as an afterthought once we have used them. Plastics belong in the economy, not in the environment.
