COP28 is an opportunity for Canadian global leadership
At the upcoming United Nations climate summit in Dubai, the Canadian government has both the responsibility and the credibility to lay out the costs of climate inaction.
Honour our soldiers by probing Canada’s Afghan engagement
Canada needs to establish a public inquiry to ask whether the U.S. officials who knew the war in Afghanistan was unwinnable shared that info with NATO allies.
Canada must partner with allies, private sector to better protect against growing cyber attacks
It is imperative that Canada leaves legacy IT solutions behind, and moves to automated solutions. This is long overdue.
Canada needs to wake up and fight antisemitism
Canada must not learn the hard way that a society which allows antisemitism to flourish will inevitably inflict mortal harm on the fabric of its own society.
Keep dreaming for net zero by 2050—the country is not winning the battle against climate change
The Liberals have bludgeoned the Tories over their lack of a coherent climate change plan—and properly so. But if the cornerstone of the Liberals’ plan, the carbon tax, is not delivering results, the sting goes out of that criticism. What’s the difference between no plan, and a plan that isn’t working?
What is so surprising about the demand for ‘change’ in reconciliation?
Institutions might just stop protecting processes and procedures that have historically and currently created barriers for Indigenous Peoples. Instead of refusing to consider how to make policies betters, they might consider listening to Indigenous leaders who say: ‘things must change.’ This is the point of reconciliation.
Canada’s climate policy, not just the carbon tax, is on a knife’s edge
The Liberal government seemed content to let the carbon tax do all the work until, magically, everyone buys electric vehicles, installs heat pumps, and flocks to public transit.
Canada’s trying to fight inflation and restore economic growth through rear-view mirror policies
From geopolitical tensions to rising debt levels and aging, the effect of these trends is a reduction in the capacity of the supply side to respond to increases in aggregate demand. Supply cannot keep up, so this gap is taken up by price increase that are driving inflation. New approaches are needed.
Canada must accelerate train car procurement to save rail services
Despite broad cross-party commitment to passenger rail, these services are at risk.
In Israel and Palestine, the bombs have been falling for far too long: reader
A little boy cries because his father dies, and his heart keeps pounding like the bombs. A little girl cries because her brother dies, and her tears keep falling like the bombs. Why must the children cry? Why must their tears keep falling like the bombs? To help them all, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights […]
