Are the CRTC and the CBC fair-weather friends?
The notion of a global village has been driven home this year, as a worldwide pandemic has had an impact unprecedented in the living memory of Canadians. Through lockdown, gradual reopening, and further setbacks, and as concerns mount over what comes next, we have watched as countries the world over continue to deal with this […]
Without a tempestuous Trump, Trudeau can focus on solidifying Canada-U.S. bond
With a tempestuous U.S. President Donald Trump now headed for the White House exit, the Trudeau government is eagerly preparing for the renewal of its relationship with President-elect Joe Biden—interrupted in 2016 by the monkey rodeo that was the Trump era. Justin Trudeau will now be dealing with his third U.S. president and has quietly […]
Time for aerospace aid to take off: stakeholders
Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, Minister Freeland, and Minister Bains: I write to you as President and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association of Canada (AIAC), together with regional aerospace associations, and the collective 235,000 employees and more than 700 aerospace businesses right across Canada. Our vital industry, which is active in every region of our […]
Trump’s stain on the office of the president will be hard to scrub out
OTTAWA—The United States presidential election is sort of over. By now, readers will know Joe Biden is the president-elect and Donald Trump is on his way to being ejected from the White House. He, however, refuses to accept he lost or concede to Biden, and has embarked on populating the airwaves with all manner of […]
Lay groundwork now to avoid potential vaccine panic
Earlier this week, the world opened its eyes to some hopeful news. A glimpse into a future where our long, collective nightmare might finally be over, and where a flicker of optimism burned after much suffering. On Nov. 9, Pfizer and BioNtech announced they had seen some success with Phase 3 clinical trials for a […]
Anything is better than Trump, but Canadians shouldn’t expect great progress with the U.S.
OTTAWA—If the United States under president-elect Joe Biden can meet the “Do No Harm” standard, that in itself would be a significant improvement for Canada and other countries. Assuming Donald Trump doesn’t pull off some kind of coup, the world—as absurd as it is to say—stands to benefit immensely from having a rational, constructive, and […]
Online voting presents a very real danger to the integrity of voting results: Duff Conacher
Re: “Time to introduce online voting in federal and provincial elections,” (The Hill Times, Oct. 26, editorial). You propose that it is time for federal and provincial politicians to make online voting available. This is a bad idea, as online voting presents a very real danger to the integrity of voting results according to almost […]
The good old days are gone–and were never really there
OTTAWA—In the months leading up to the U.S. presidential election, the campaign itself, and the post-election day chaos, the one point upon which media pundits could agree was the fact that the “United States” of America are, in fact, deeply divided. President Donald Trump took every opportunity to pour gasoline on these glowing embers of […]
New war in Ethiopia as government postpones vote ‘because of COVID’
Americans should congratulate themselves. Their election system is definitely better than Ethiopia’s. In fact, it works so well that there’s unlikely to be another American civil war. The United States, a federal country with a complex and decrepit voting system, has nevertheless just held a national election despite about a quarter-million COVID-19 deaths. U.S. President […]
Why Canada should sustain its COVID-19 aid to Myanmar through the border areas
If Canada were to end its direct funding to Indigenous civil societies working in areas outside of the Myanmar government control, it would have an enormous impact on Indigenous communities served by Canada’s life-saving assistance. The way COVID-19 support to Myanmar—including to the 600,000 Rohingya living in refugee camps in Bangladesh—was handled by the central […]
