Canada’s budgetary process: a failing grade in First Nations partnership
Canada’s budgetary process must recognize and honour its treaty obligations to First Nations. Exclusion is no longer an option; it perpetuates injustices and undermines the nation’s commitment to reconciliation and partnership.
We must demand greater accountability from police
If MPs felt the same fear that Indigenous peoples do when they see an RCMP officer, maybe—just maybe—we’d see some urgency.
Poilievre is fundraising and advertising aggressively before next election call and limits set in
With weekly hauls seeking donations of up to $1,725 and that kind of cash coming in, Pierre Poilievre will able to keep spending without being subject to the limits on advertising that kick in once an election is called.
Trudeau and Poilievre aren’t focused on what needs to be done
Canada urgently needs a bold growth strategy if we are to face the future with confidence, rather than channelling down into a despairing view that this country is broken and can’t be fixed. If we’re broken, it will be a self-inflicted fate.
Why wait for disasters to strike to draw on research evidence?
We need to strengthen the evidence-support system by taking stock of what we already have and building on these strengths. Political staffers from all parties and public servants have key roles to play in these efforts.
India’s eroding democratic values questions its reliability as an ally to Canada
Given the escalating dangers facing the Rohingya and other Muslim refugees, it is critical for the international community, including Canada, to demand accountability from India.
Canada’s salute to militarism is sad
Mélanie Joly is heir to some great Canadians initiatives for peace: Lester Pearson on peacekeeping in the Suez Canal, Jean Chrétien in keeping Canada out of the Iraq war, Lloyd Axworthy in building the Landmines Treaty, Brian Mulroney in ending apartheid in South Africa, Joe Clark in bringing Vietnamese Boat People to Canada.
Why doesn’t Michael Harris cry out for Hamas to surrender and release the Israeli hostages, asks letter-writer Alan Williams
Re: “Who can stop Benjamin Netanyahu?” (The Hill Times, April 8, by Michael Harris). I want to thank Michael Harris. The double-standard that he and his colleagues around the world apply to Israel has galvanized and united Jews in Israel and around the world as never before. Our eyes are now wide open. Jews know […]
Foreign Interference Commission testimony raises more questions than answers
What was most interesting was what wasn’t said, or rather what couldn’t be said.
Freeland’s budget should focus on housing, ending homelessness, writes Ottawa reader
More and more people are homeless in Ottawa and across Canada due to the rapidly increasing cost of housing. In the federal budget on April 16, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland must focus on housing and ending homelessness, with a particular emphasis on providing direct financial support, such as a homelessness prevention and housing benefit to […]
