Canada should leverage the G7 presidency to reassert its leadership: Ottawa reader
The yearlong G7 presidency is the perfect opportunity for Canada to reaffirm its sovereignty and long-standing legacy as a compassionate global leader. Canada’s leadership at previous G7 summits has led to impactful measurable results. In 2018, Canada’s investment at Charlevoix, Que., reached four million girls in crisis-affected countries with quality education in just three years; […]
Trump requires entry permit for Canada’s G7 summit: letter writer
Like all visitors to Canada with a criminal conviction, United States President Donald Trump should be required to apply for a special entry permit if he wishes to attend the G7 leaders’ summit on June 15. Even former U.S. president George W. Bush was required to seek a permit due to his past impaired driving […]
Election? What election?
The Conservatives seem to be trying to juggle the need to be constructive during a national crisis, and the belief that they got cheated by threats from the U.S. president.
Is Carney’s mandate for technocracy or transformation?
Here lies the Carney paradox: his critique of market fundamentalism has always been more radical than his remedies.
Climate calling: geoengineering or bust
The only way to hold the heat down in the short term is direct intervention in the atmosphere to reflect more sunlight back into space.
Youth deserve a safer internet. Will the new cabinet deliver?
Last Parliament’s online harms bill wasn’t perfect, but it was a long-overdue step toward regulating a digital world where harmful content proliferates. Canada needs new legislation.
Urgent: ambitious methane emissions reduction needed
Meeting our methane targets is an important prerequisite for Canada’s international competitiveness.
The misadventures of Navy procurement
Successive governments routinely state ‘nothing is too good for our military,’ and therefore ‘nothing’ is what they get.
Canada can’t move forward without Indigenous-led solutions
No serious national strategy—be it economic, environmental, or geopolitical—can succeed without Indigenous leadership, co-ownership, and shared decision-making power.
Amid rapid global growth, renewable energy’s Canadian future remains uncertain
In Canada, the defining feature of renewable energy development has been profound instability. Over the past two decades, activity in the sector has alternated between periods of rapid growth and screeching halts.
