Pragmatist Carney knows how to beat the bully Trump
Mark Carney’s moment in leading world affairs has come. As a pragmatist, he knows how to beat the bully Trump. In facing outward, the 24th and now 25th Canadian prime minister will hold Canada together as a sovereign nation.
Is Canada drifting towards a two-party trap?
The 2025 election results reveal the dangers of narrowing choices in an era that demands broader solutions.
A cost-effective solution to our family physician access crisis
Funding Practice Ready Assessment programs across Canada provides an accelerated pathway to license internationally-trained physicians.
Canada’s sub-standard submarines
Can the Royal Canadian Navy really lose a capability that it doesn’t actually possess?
In one week, I voted in two elections, three ballot papers, but had zero democracy sausages in Canada
Voting traditions in both Canada and Australia fill one’s heart with civic pride, but only one country also fills an elector’s stomach.
Farewell to the old order
With a brand new leader at the Liberal Party helm and with the distinct chance of new leadership in all the main federal parties, the old order of national politics could change faster than Newfoundland and Labrador weather.
Gratitude for Pope Francis’ witness to the world
At a time when the world seems fractured and uncertain, there are voices that rise above the noise—voices calling us back to what is most essential: mercy, justice, peace, and love for the least among us. Pope Francis has been such a voice. Since the first moment he stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s […]
Voting is only the beginning of the democratic conversation
Scrutiny, vigilance, and accountability are also important for all other days of the electoral cycle.
No matter what, it will be a ‘change’ election for the federal public service
All in all, both Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre promise fiscal restraint, but they have very expensive priorities and are planning to run deficits. Time will tell whether how much of a ‘change’ the next prime minister is from the last one.
How to face defeat
People vote for parties because they believe in ideas, not because they want Parliament to work better, and fighting to the end is always better than giving up.
