Sheila Copps’ advice for rookie MPs: keep it simple
Target three things you want to achieve for your riding, and three things you want to achieve for the country. And make sure all your work in committees and in Parliament is focused on moving to achieve those objectives.
Canada must lead the Global Fund at the G7 presidency
If you had the opportunity to save millions of lives, would you take it? Over the past two decades, the Global Fund, a leading global health initiative combating AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, has saved over 65 million lives. But that progress is now at risk. As countries reduce international assistance, hard-won gains hang in the […]
Carney must be rigorous and not succumb to extortion on viability of new nation-building projects
There is much we can do to advance nation building, but the choices must be transparent and Canadians must feel that the projects chosen and money spent will clearly deliver the very best outcomes for the country. We want and need winners, not lemons.
Leaks from pipelines lost money: Calgary reader
Re: “Urgent: ambitious methane emissions reduction needed,” (The Hill Times, June 2, by Independent Senator Rosa Galvez and Ari Pottens). Senator Galvez is right: methane regulations are an easy win for everyone involved, from government, to the oil and gas industry. Leaks from pipelines and equipment are literally just lost money. Imagine if when they […]
Time for New Democrats to commit to winning
The NDP has a choice as this minority government—and forthcoming leadership race—get underway.
Powering a just transition: why Canada’s clean energy workforce needs a recharge
Canada can’t decarbonize without people. And we can’t build the workforce we need with the systems that created exclusion. Ontario’s Small Modular Reactor project at Darlington shows how clean energy can power economies, but without inclusive workforce development, that promise falls short.
Canada’s G7 moment: rewrite the script or play along?
Mounting contradictions have dulled the G7’s edge. Canada can lead it toward revitalization—or be complicit in its decline.
From reactive to proactive: Canada’s hidden health-care crisis and why physical activity should be central to policy
As policymakers grapple with immediate crises, they must recognize that our long-term national strength depends on the health and vitality of our citizens. The choice between reactive treatment and proactive prevention will define Canada’s future prosperity and social cohesion.
Where does Israel imagine starving Palestinians can go?
The number of people who starve to death will now rise steeply because Israel has only opened four feeding centres where there used to be 400.
Carney can make a huge difference on climate change, and he should make it a priority
Waking up and transforming our economy must mean powering down, not biz lust to be an energy superpower, sufficiency not abundance, a managed decline, not an energy transition, and societal and economic evolution, not more extra-activist mega-projects.
