The political centre is as vacant in Canada as it is in the U.S., leaving moderates politically homeless. But unlike in Canada, where moderate voices sound dated and irrelevant, there are signs the American intellectual centre is experiencing a burgeoning renaissance. Why can’t Canada follow suit?
As liberal elites have become more captured by woke ideology, their values have increasingly become inaccessible to everyday Canadians. Championing bourgeois virtues and speaking to the common people is a winning formula in response.
The uniformity of expertise might be less worrisome if we could trust that experts valued truth ahead of politics. But that’s not the case. We know just how ideologically insulated our sources of so-called expertise have become.
As Canadians continue to watch prices rise at the checkout, even as inflation shows some early signs of cooling, it’s fitting that a former Bank of Canada governor is on the shortlist of authors for the Donner Book Prize.
Every year, millions fall below the poverty line, but millions rise above it, too. We need a better understanding of the causes of and solutions to poverty than simplistic, emotional appeals.
We have a national government today that has little interest in federal power but ambitious plans for the provinces. In neglecting their own responsibilities they have gained a more efficient means of policymaking and rendered provincial political parties obsolete.
Let’s not make the perfect the enemy of the good. If you want to help the environment, focus on the low-hanging fruit like making it easier and cheaper for people to live lower-impact, urban lifestyles. Meet people where they’re at with policies today and persuade them to go further tomorrow.
The tidal wave of toxic, conflicting parenting advice and the pervasive (but biologically false) notion that a woman’s thirties are her new twenties feels almost impossible to reverse. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.
Rewind 25 years and try to imagine the industries made possible by the modern internet. A similar economic shift is coming, and humanity will stand to greatly benefit if we take full advantage.
As is often the case with policies made exclusively by and for drivers, the unintended consequences of the plastic bag ban are largely borne by everyone else. Ironically, it is also making the lowest carbon lifestyles less appealing in the name of the environment.
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