Time to launch long-delayed public service pay-equity plan
The Pay Equity Commissioner’s office is struggling with limited resources, compliance issues, and delays with case resolutions—proper funding is essential for pay equity to be a reality.
Is it too late for a Palestinian state?
For the first time, big Western countries are recognizing the state, but it is not unified and it still controls no territory.
CAF leadership lacks courage
It’s the responsibility of military brass to pound on the desks of their political masters to address shortcomings in the institution. Instead, they sugar coat the situation.
Canada, we can’t stop now
Every day, millions of people suffer needlessly from AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria which are preventable and treatable. In the face of this human struggle, our inaction becomes harder to justify. Global health threats are rising, inequalities are widening, and we risk losing decades of progress if we do not maintain bold leadership. Canada has historically […]
Prime Minister Carney should run contested nominations in soon-to-be vacant ridings, or risk losing grassroots support
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s landslide leadership win in the leadership election could unravel quickly if he disappoints grassroots members by sidelining them in the candidate nomination process. He should also remember that once a leader loses the enthusiasm of the party base, winning it back is a major challenge.
Mark Carney and the politics of subtlety
Mark Carney appears open to changing details, if not his overall direction, in the face of pushback, and that direction is not dictated by ideology, but by pragmatism. But he is hard to read.
Trans Mountain pipeline tolls could leave feds on the hook for billions in further costs
While approximately 70 per cent of the project’s cost overruns will be borne by Trans Mountain, the remaining third—more than $9-billion—is considered ‘uncapped costs’ which increase tolls based on a formula agreed to by shippers and approved by the Canada Energy Regulator more than a decade ago.
Until recently, I had never heard of Charlie Kirk
Those of us who were ignorant of Charlie Kirk expected that his background would back up the posthumous honorifics. Instead, what we see is the story of a man who went out of his way to sow division based on race, gender, and religion.
Judge federal spending by real effects, not arbitrary anchors: reader
Re: “New budget watching says ‘deficit will absolutely be higher’ than forecast, feds have no clear fiscal anchors,” (The Hill Times, Sept. 17). Federal government expenditures should be evaluated not by any arbitrary “fiscal anchor,” but by their effect on the real economy, in particular the rate of unemployment. Today’s economic punditry ignore the high […]
Revenge of the Blue Liberals
If Carney moves too far to the right, especially on environmental issues, he risks alienating his own political base and possibly creating a rift within the Liberal Party. The prime minister likely knows this.
