On Giving Tuesday, health charities call on government to give
After the flurry of spending on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, many Canadians will take part in Giving Tuesday; a global movement where people, charities and businesses join together to encourage giving in ways that help communities thrive. This year, the Canadian Cancer Society, the MS Society of Canada and Heart and Stroke are calling […]
Ethiopia’s war in Tigray enters new phase
LONDON, U.K.—“Love always wins. Killing others is a defeat,” said Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in June 2018, shortly after surviving a grenade attack at a rally in Meskel Square in the capital, Addis Ababa. How was he to know that just 30 months after saying that he would have to stop loving and start […]
When knowing a little about a lot goes wrong
OTTAWA—There was a day and age when the federal government hired public health policy experts for the Public Health Agency of Canada, adult educators for the Canada School of Public Service, financial experts for Finance Canada, and well-being and benefits experts for Veterans Affairs Canada. Then something happened about three decades ago in the business […]
Post-pandemic world will be different
TORONTO—At a time when Canada faces such big and difficult challenges, you’d think MPs and commentators would have something better to do than spin out paranoid conspiracy fantasies from what should be seen by rational people as a couple of non-controversial sentences by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. In a speech to the United Nations in […]
Federal government has failed to champion Canada’s aerospace sector—and not just during COVID-19
Canada’s aerospace sector has been increasingly in the news during COVID-19, but the federal government has been failing to champion our country’s highly innovative and reputable aerospace sector long before now. We have an industry that is punching above its weight—ranked fifth in the world as an aerospace nation—but too little has been done to […]
Canadian governments must not squander their most precious resource in the fight against COVID-19
OTTAWA—Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments in Canada have benefitted from remarkable public goodwill. How remarkable? In the summertime, the Pew Research Centre found that nine in 10 Canadians felt their country was doing a good job of dealing with the pandemic. In stark contrast, fewer than one in two in the United […]
de Adder’s Take: 11-30-2020
It’s critical for parliamentarians to prepare themselves properly for standing committee work
Most Parliamentarians soon learn that committee work is the heart and soul of their responsibilities as lawmakers. Committees are where MPs and Senators review, examine and debate legislation and policy that affects the lives of millions of Canadians. Most know that to provide useful input, MPs and Senators put in an enormous amount of time and […]
Air transport system’s road to recovery will be long and challenging
The air transport system was severely hit by the global pandemic due to restrictions on air travel—locally nationally, and globally. While the path to recovery will require diverse measures to safeguard players in the system, sustainability must be top of mind in the process. The air transport system consists of a number of key players, […]
Business leaders committed to making Canada the best country in the world: Goldy Hyder
Re: “Where are the serious leaders from Canada’s business community, the big-picture thinkers about the country’s future?” (The Hill Times, Nov. 23, by David Crane). I was disappointed to read David Crane’s opinion column in your Nov. 23 edition. Mr. Crane suggested that Canada’s business leaders are not “big-picture thinkers.” The leaders with whom I work […]
