Charging, range anxiety, and price still barriers to mass EV adoption—but there are potential solutions
The things holding back a lot of people from taking the EV plunge are a mix of real problems and lingering myths.
As G7 hosts, Italy and Canada must lead the way on climate action
As Italy hosts the 2024 G7 summit and Canada prepares itself for hosting in 2025, their co-operation holds paramount importance.
Getting hosed on housing
The feds are relying on neoliberal economic policies of letting the market decide to build affordable housing. Well, the market decided we should all be poor.
Why aren’t we talking about long-term care when we talk about the housing crisis?
Without deliberate consideration and action, much of an entire generation of older Canadians will be without the housing and care they need.
Sleepwalking towards Canada’s next major health crisis
Canadians deserve better than all levels of government dishing blame at each other while nothing gets done about antimicrobial resistance.
What is ‘unity’ truly worth?
On March 18, the Liberals scored what they seem to think is a win and a shining example of the power of compromise. That day, Parliamentarians debated NDP MP Heather McPherson’s motion that demanded, among other things, the government call for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas hostilities, “support the prosecution of all crimes and […]
One-sided, biased narrative in op-ed on Palestinian women and girls, says Toronto letter writer
Re: “Trudeau’s feminist policies have failed Palestinian women and girls,” (The Hill Times, March 8). I am writing to express my profound disappointment with the recent article by Katherine Bullock, Tazeen Hasan, and Nawel Hamidi. While the authors emphasize the need to support Palestinian women and girls, they glaringly omit the suffering of Israeli women […]
Mass departures from municipal politics are understandable
The smaller the stakes in politics, the more vicious the infighting, and in municipal politics, the elbows can be high.
Driving down emissions with electric school buses
Transitioning to cleaner alternatives such as electric school buses would mean cutting out more than four million tons of carbon dioxide from our emissions every year.
Trudeau’s carbon-pricing obstinance may be too late to deliver
Canadians have been lectured by the Liberal government on carbon pricing, but rarely has the message been properly co-opted with a reminder of its value.
