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Canada’s forgotten role in the partition of Palestine and the creation of Israel
As chair of the UN’s Special Committee on Palestine following WWII, Lester Pearson played a key diplomatic role in the partition of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel. He looked back with pride at the creation of a Jewish homeland and with anguish at the awful violence that creation entailed.
Danielle Smith is invoking the Alberta Sovereignty Act for the first time. Here’s why
Canada’s climate consensus is collapsing. Can it be salvaged?
A disrupted legacy media model isn’t a market failure, it’s a market correction
‘More of us need to speak up so that our cultural heritage is not lost.’: The best comments from Hub readers this week
Legislation criminalizing ‘residential school denialism’ unlikely to survive constitutional challenge, legal scholars say
Modernizing patient referrals could be one way to eliminate Canada’s wait-time woes
‘No actual legal, logical, or moral case’: Five Tweets reacting to Ottawa’s agreement with Google
Half of private Canadian journalism could now be government supported
‘Canadians need to feel pride’: Three key insights from David Frum’s Hub Dialogue
From staff burnout to ER overcrowding, how increasing home visits could solve a host of health-care problems
While Israel may struggle to fully eradicate Hamas, analysts believe a regional war is unlikely
A humbled China may be looking to de-escalate tensions with the West as its economy falters, analysts say
Is Canadian history dead? The Roundtable on Canada’s lost sense of self
Should we really be so pessimistic about the economy? David Frum on the U.S. and Canada’s diverging economies
Can capitalism save the world? Johan Norberg makes the case for the global free market
The future of news will be ‘quite a mix’ of diverse models: Three key insights from Martin Baron’s Hub Dialogue
Former Washington Post Executive Editor Martin Baron on the future of journalism
The Roundtable on the state of the economy and the impact of Google’s $100-million deal
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The news out of Benvenuto Brunello Toronto: Some good, some bad—plus lots of wine to love
Brunello di Montalcino is one of Italy’s “Big B” success stories. The resurgence of the Brunello clone of the Sangiovese grape in this small wine region has never slowed down—demand continues to outstrip supply and prices rise correspondently.
Has October 7th spoiled the Muslim-Conservative coalition on parental rights?
A tentative alliance was forming between Canadian Muslims and grassroots conservative activists as Muslims were joining and organizing protests against gender ideology and LGBTQ+ programming in schools. Then October 7 happened.
We are telling the wrong story about Canada
Anecdotes of oppression are the new national narrative—a story of Canada as a settler colonial nation, steeped in a racist history, whose people have been oppressed, and whose even ostensibly positive policies like official multiculturalism merely hide exclusionary tendencies. Patriotism has become politicized.
What the ‘math is racist’ argument gets wrong about equality rights
The proposition upheld by the Divisional Court—that fear of burdening racialized candidates should lead the government to scrap a test meant to boost poor math scores throughout public schools—represents a nadir of bigotry of low expectations and threatens to entrench poor math outcomes for all students.
As newsrooms empty out, governments swoop in for the kill
With the number of journalists in Canada falling, government comms seems to be going in for the kill. There are now so few journalists that governments easily get away with holding back information that we all have a right to know.
