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 […]
The Liberals’ time problem
How do you combat wistfulness for the past when you can’t offer a better future?
How do we attract more businesspeople in public life?
Canada is rich in talent. As the economic challenges facing Canada become more and more pronounced, where are today’s Mulroneys, Mazankowskis, Lumleys, Wilsons, and Martins, who can help make Canada more competitive, prosperous, and confident?
Public money has no party
Investing in government accountability is a prerequisite for democracy, not a side effect.
School food program should focus on healthy plant-based eating
The National School Food Program announcement is reason to celebrate, especially if it can help the shift to more plant-based consumption. Not only are there are big environmental, economic and health benefits from this shift, but it’s a reminder that the health and well-being of humans, animals, and the planet are interconnected.
Unlocking the power of the ocean: threading the economic needle on the path to net zero
As ocean nations, there is significant economic opportunity in achieving emissions reductions targets through the sustainable development of our ocean and the solutions it can provide.
Space systems are too important to leave unprotected against cyber attack
Canada has not designated space systems as part of the nation’s critical infrastructure, even though allies Australia, France, and the United Kingdom have done so.
Time to act on Canada Disability Benefit promise
Lessons learned from the employment insurance model should find their way into the new benefit.
Pharmacare bill offers too much ambiguity and too little ambition
To understand and maximize value, we should know why the government chose this odd-duck model, and diabetes and contraception drugs over others. Politics over public health, perhaps?
Dental hygienists have powerful potential to improve oral health care delivery in Canada
Ottawa can better support the oral health care of long-term care residents by implementing national standards and team-based care that includes dental hygienists.
