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Canada should have one national body looking after health care: letter writer

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We elect governments and pay taxes so the governments can do things that we, as individuals, cannot do: build hospitals and schools, pave roads, and provide security. If we have one body to purchase medical equipment and everything else, then the cost would be less expensive than 13 independents, or 1,300 independents. My question is […]

In a nuclear-armed world, any conflict can turn into a nuclear war: Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility

Re: “Time for Canada to consider its own nuclear deterrent,” (The Hill Times, March 10). Responding to U.S. President Donald Trump’s punitive behaviour towards Canada, author Jamie Carroll suggests Canada should “buy” nuclear weapons from France. Presumably he is willing to tear up the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). It forbids any Nuclear Weapons State from transferring such weapons to […]

Conservative attack ad lacks authenticity

Most political consumers will reject the Conservative ad attacking Mark Carney as helping Donald Trump by driving jobs south because it won’t seem rooted in reality.

Who’s Tory now?

Newly elected party leader Mark Carney arrives for the Liberal Party caucus meeting in West Block on March 10, 2025. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

There is a new Liberal in town, a blue-suit Liberal, and all these ordinary concerns—although climate change is hardly trivial—seem to be set aside in face of a more immediate threat: Donald Trump and his shy surrogate north of the border.