The Canadian ship of state leaks again
It is an easy strategy to transfer blame onto other nations when your own failures are so evident. Meanwhile, we stumble in the dark with unverified data leaked by the responsible Canadian agencies, seeking to transfer their own failures far from our shores.
Only single-payer universal pharmacare will save money, and lives, writes Canadian Health Coalition
The Hill Times’ Peter Mazereeuw’s take on the pharmacare costing analysis by the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer left me wondering whether we were reading the same study (The Hill Times, Oct. 13, 2023). Mazereeuw reports accurately that the PBO finds public universal pharmacare will deliver significant cost savings to the economy of $1.4-billion […]
Pharmacare means pharmaceuticals will be more affordable for everybody, writes Thomlinson
I was disappointed in the story about the PBO analysis of the cost of pharmacare and its focus on the question “what is its purpose?” Actually, the purpose is self-evident: to make pharmaceuticals more affordable for everybody. It is too clever by half to keep repeating the mantra that only 14 per cent of non-hospital […]
MPs must take strong, united stand against antisemitism and anti-Palestinian racism in Canada
Under Standing Order 53.1, MPs last Monday debated the Israel-Hamas war and the unfolding humanity crisis in Gaza after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,400 people—mostly civilians—and taking 200 people hostage. It was the single biggest loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust. The terrorist operation was called “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.” At least […]
Israeli-Palestinian conflict’s solution
A two-state solution is the only answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: two independent states, Israel and Palestine living side by side.
Our foreign policy has turned into performative political theatre, and we’re worse off for it
Part of the problem is we have allowed our politicians to get way with abbreviating serious policy debates into simple wisecracks.
Canada’s on the wrong side of the big issues
If we had pride in our country and its place in the world, we would be leading the way in the transition to a new global order, just as we played key roles in designing the postwar system in 1945. But we’re more worried about pleasing the U.S. than in working for something better.
Pollsters as the voice of doom
What are his pollsters telling him?
Private member’s bill uses biosecurity and infectious diseases as a smokescreen
Rather than passing an ag gag law to reduce transparency and target compassionate citizens who document animal suffering, Parliamentarians should focus on the real threat: the harmful underbelly of an industry lacking oversight of both biosecurity practices and the treatment of farmed animals.
Israel-Gaza: Better call Cicero
There is some truth in both the narratives, and which one people believe largely depends on their existing loyalties.
