One white supremacist in CAF ranks is too many
OTTAWA—In his final media interview as Canada’s chief of the defence staff, General Jonathan Vance openly addressed the issue of white supremacists within the ranks of the Canadian Armed Forces. Specifically, Vance pointed to a July 2017 incident involving members of a right-wing, anti-immigration group known as the Proud Boys. What was a fairly benign […]
Trudeau government’s new climate plan is insufficient
GIBSONS, B.C.—In 2014-2015, led by the newly formed Ecofiscal Commission, there was a bloom of comment, editorials and op-eds advocating carbon pricing as a climate mitigation method. As a British Columbia climate activist, I was familiar with the failure of our province’s vaunted carbon tax, so I gathered 15 or so of the authors, prominent […]
de Adder’s Take: 01-18-2021
Could be a spring election
HALIFAX—COVID-19 has been the herd of elephants in the room for so long, it is a relief to have something else in the air other than the virus; talk of a federal election. The run of stories dealing with that possibility points to a trip to the polls this spring—perhaps in the month of May. […]
Post-COVID world will change us all forever
Just as the post-Trump America is a very different place, the post-COVID world will change us all forever. Virtual meetings have gone from being a techie tool used by geeks to the go-to place for people to meet globally. A year ago, no one could have envisioned an international meeting of leaders on global warming […]
Biden presidency will be good news for Canada-U.S. relations
Newly elected U.S. President Joe Biden will take the oath of office on Jan. 20. Being the president of the United States has never been an easy job, but the 78-year-old president’s faces significantly tougher challenges than his recent predecessors. Political turmoil and outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump’s divisive policies have put the unity of […]
Problems of current-day conservative thought
TORONTO—Conservatism today is, it could be argued, a bewildered philosophy, and an unwieldy morass of mutually incompatible, self‑contradictory, and amorphous ideas. Despite decades of internecine debate, the contemporary conservative movement in Western societies has failed, generally speaking, to provide a coherent and consistent account of itself. No viewpoint that, holus‑bolus, seeks to unite Barry Goldwater […]
Trump needs to be removed from the political landscape, says Toronto reader
Re: “Trudeau should be slamming Trump’s demagoguery, more vociferously,” (The Hill Times, Jan. 11, editorial). Canadians seem too often to judge Canadians on how much better they could have done, and not on how well they have done. The Trudeau government has done better in dealing with our most important trading partner—and its insane leader—than any […]
We need parliamentarians to stop project, prevent Ottawa River from being permanently contaminated by gigantic radioactive landfill, says activist
Re “CNL working to accomplish responsible action in managing Canada’s nuclear research and development legacy,” (The Hill Times, letters to the editor, Dec. 14, 2020). The letter from Joe McBrearty, president and CEO of Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), deepens my concern about the handling of Canada’s $8-billion nuclear waste liability. Mr. McBrearty says the Chalk […]
Pompeo: one landmine a day
LONDON, U.K.—When defeated armies are retreating, they always lay mines behind them if they have time. The mines slow pursuit, they may inflict casualties on the victors, and they give the losers something purposeful to do amidst panic and despair. That’s what Mike Pompeo has been doing just before time is called on his ideologically […]
