Looking at these surveys, it is wrong to assume a strong majority of Canadians, or even of Canadian parents, love the child care plan we got. For Canadians, the word “system” might be more elastic than some advocates and politicians think.
With Canada-wide $10-a-day child care now a fait accompli, provincial governments should act now to pre-empt the likely regressive effects of the program. Cash subsidies and reserving spaces for certain low-population centres could help.
This episode of Hub Dialogues features host Sean Speer in conversation with Freddie deBoer, author and journalist, about his new must-read book, How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement.
The Allied invasion of the Italian mainland began 80 years ago today on September 3, 1943, the 1st Canadian Division landing on the toe of Italy and beginning a rapid advance northward.
We thought we would have some fun with the government’s regulatory overview by imagining that the Online News Act was written for and in a different time.
This week’s Hub Roundtable discusses the bizarre state of housing in Canada, where an income near the top ten percent is necessary to get into the Toronto market. Is this creating divisions in our society down class and age lines? We also talk about the growth of the global middle class and what it means for Canada’s ability to compete in the world.
There is a temptation among reporters to see any kind of pushback or criticism as an assault on our role in the democratic process. We should be careful about that.
This episode of In Conversation with David Frum features the causes and consequences of a possible Chinese economic crisis and what it would mean for Canada and the global economy more broadly. They also cover renewed calls to criminalize so-called “Indian residential schools denialism”.
Institutionalizing the Harper government’s Strategic Review model can help the Trudeau govenment to rebuild an internal culture in favour of fiscal prioritization and overall budget discipline.
We need to double housing starts. We don’t just need a few extra apartments by transit stops. We need a homebuilding boom like nothing we’ve seen in decades.
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