Access to crucial viral Ebola data has been denied for more than 12 years.
As he nears retirement from the daily grind, you can’t talk about Bob Fife and not talk about passion.
Canada is highly respected, but it seems many Albertans and Quebecers don’t care, and prefer to gamble with our country’s future in a time of crisis.
FIFA and Canadian governments have priced out regular people from this tournament in the middle of an affordability crisis.
The prime minister’s New York visit signals a push for industrial acceleration. But too often, social policy debates collapse into a single question: how does this improve our competitiveness?
Even before the United States and Israel attacked Iran, it was at least two years of hard work away from a working nuclear weapon.
It’s unlikely that the Air Force’s pilot shortage will be rectified by the 2030s, and the global security situation will allow Canada the luxury of standing up another Snowbird squadron for the express purpose of astonishing onlookers at airshows.
As the prime minister often says, we must deal with the world as it is, not as we wish it to be. But when it comes to Mark Carney’s calculated capitulation on climate, it simply sounds defeatist—and irresponsible.
Changes to environmental legislation is the kind of under-the-radar political discussion that will not likely make front page news. But it is the kind of change that could alienate women who tend to focus more on environmental and health concerns.
Will we simply hope that our raw materials will sustain our prosperity? Or do we need to become aggressively proactive in building a new knowledge-based economy? The latter will take much greater effort than has been deployed so far.
British Columbia Premier David Eby has expressed concerns about Mark Carney’s chummy relationship with Danielle Smith. Carney appears to be treating Alberta’s demands and desires with special attention, particularly the desire for a new pipeline.
Rachel Notley’s watching Danielle Smith make bold deals with the federal Liberal government to help develop Alberta’s energy sector, the same sort of deals Notley tried but failed to make. But she was just the victim of cold political calculations.
There are many other factors to blame for fewer people having kids: housing affordability, unrealistic expectations promoted by online influencers, even the growing scarcity of entry-level jobs. But the most persuasive is phones, phones, phones.
A movement openly questioning the legitimacy of Confederation is being normalized as part of democratic discourse, while First Nations asserting their treaty rights are portrayed as procedural obstacles standing in the way of the people’s will.
Nobody in Ottawa wants to guarantee records would be released in a timely fashion, let alone that historic records will be quickly declassified.
Right now, both Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith and Conservative MP Jamil Jivani stand on uncertain ground, either by design or over estimation of their political skill.
The current plan for upgrades and refurbishment of the Leopard 2 tanks is aimed at ensuring ‘platform viability until 2035’—that means their replacement should have been put on a fast track at least five years ago.
The federal Liberals have taken the position that an Alberta-to-B.C.-coast oil line has to have a private sector proponent. So far, none has stepped up.
Carney’s Liberals have left a lot to be defined through the undemocratic regulatory process. The plan is to be vague when shoving it down our throats via Parliament.
If Quebec fails to bring the defence bank to Montreal, it’ll have no one to blame but itself.
A Pollara poll from April had support for Alberta separatism at 27 per cent, the highest level recorded in five years of tracking. A recent CBC News poll showed that 57 per cent of UCP members would vote for Alberta to separate from Canada. This means Smith is dependent on separatists to remain leader.
Nathaniel Erskine-Smith has worn a target on his back for the last several months. Now a new frontrunner will be under attack and the Ford team is already working hard to build attack ads against whomever wins the race.
Economic issues might come back to the fore. I know a great many Conservatives who remain deeply frustrated that they are polling so badly as a party, despite polling so well on issues that matter dearly to millions of voters. This might give them some hope.
For Donald Trump, burdened with a sluggish economy, an unpopular war, and polling numbers lower than the morale at the Pentagon, the goal is trade deals that will ease his problems back home. That’s why he took every billionaire business dude he could find along on the trip. For Xi Jinping, the calculus is different.
Mary Simon changed the world for Indigenous youth who for the first time saw ‘one of us’ take on such a role and succeed. No more airtime on languages. Instead, let’s highlight how this Governor General raised the profile of Indigenous success and contribution, and about mental health. And even though she will be leaving the job, reconciliation continues.
