Reporters should take Poilievre's combativeness as a challenge
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.
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.
A play for millennial voters, particularly by solving the housing crisis, could lead to long-term political gains by locking down a key cohort of voters.
This week’s Hub Roundtable discusses the federal Cabinet retreat in Charlottetown, including its focus on the country’s housing crisis. They also discuss new polling that finds a majority of Canadians believe that Prime Minister Trudeau should step down.
The fight over new housing permissions is ultimately a fight for the future. The strategies and tactics proposed for that fight are critical and should be critically considered, as are the conviction and will of the fighter.
The priority today must be to unblock the restrictions at all levels of government that prevent our private sector from building. That’s it. In many cases, those restrictions come packaged in policies called “green standards” or “sustainable design requirements”, but these all add up to more bureaucracy, more costs, and fewer units of housing getting built.
It’s difficult to see how Israel could settle on a written constitution amid the current turmoil. If the Court invalidates Netanyahu’s reforms, as it is widely rumoured to be inclined to do, it’s difficult to see how Israeli society will recover from the crisis.
After decades of maintaining a relatively harmonious balance between high levels of immigration and social welfare, Canada finally appears to be at the precipice of the Sophie’s Choice-esque dilemma that has long plagued other Western societies.
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