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Clock technician Dan LaMoore adjusts clock hands on a large outdoor clock under construction at Electric Time Company, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021, in Medfield, Mass. Steven Senne/AP Photo.

MPP Jeremy Roberts wants to abolish daylight savings time in Ontario

Ontario MPP Jeremy Roberts speaks with The Hub about what drew him to politics, his work supporting the autistic community, and his private member’s bill to abolish daylight savings time.

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Newly graduated Afghan female National Army soldiers attend their graduation ceremony after a three month training program at the Afghan Military Academy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020. Rahmat Gul/AP Photo.

Dr. Joana Cook explores the roles of women in the War on Terror

The crucial roles that women have played in both terrorism and counterterrorism efforts since 9/11 have been neglected and understudied.

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Monte McNaughton, Ontario Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development speaks during daily updates regarding COVID-19 at Queen's Park in Toronto on Tuesday, June 16, 2020. Nathan Denette/THE CANADIAN PRESS.

Ontario Labour Minister Monte McNaughton is trying to build a working-class coalition

His ambitious policy agenda deviates from conventional conservative policymaking, but it just might represent a blueprint for conservative reform in the 21st century.

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Mike Greenley, president of MDA comments during the  announcement of a Quebec government tentative agreement with Telesat LEO Inc. and MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. to invest in Telesat Lightspeed in Montreal on Thursday, February 18, 2021. Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press.

MDA CEO Mike Greenley makes the case for Canada in space

Canada already has a history of being an internationally recognized leader in space robotics and sensors, Earth observation, and satellite systems. Our future in space could be even more impressive.

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Majid Tandel helps a man who was stuck in a snowbank get his car out as more than 25 centimetres of snow fell in Montreal, Wednesday, March 5, 2008. Peter McCabe/The Canadian Press.

Andrew Potter catalogues our ongoing decline

Western countries have been marked by a mix of cultural, economic, and political stagnation in recent decades that have led to collective decline.

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Senior process engineer Jane Ritchie holds solid calcium carbonate pellets that were formed by precipitating captured carbon dioxide at Calgary-based Carbon Engineering's first direct air capture plant in Squamish, B.C., on Wednesday October 7, 2015. The plant extracts carbon dioxide directly from atmospheric air in a closed-loop industrial process. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press.

Offsetting emissions needs to be a key part of Canada's climate strategy

We cannot get to net-zero emissions without shutting down heavy industry and significantly harming our economy and living standards. Thankfully, though, we can effectively offset emissions using carbon capture, utilization, and storage technology.

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Bank towers are shown from Bay Street in Toronto's financial district on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Adrien Veczan/The Canadian Press.

The value of big business and why we need to embrace an industrial policy

Big businesses are unjustly demonized and their many benefits are too often underappreciated. Moreover, embracing industrial policy will be necessary to maintain our national security.

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CSIS director David Vigneault holds a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, July 16, 2020. Sean Kilpatrick/THE CANADIAN PRESS.

Canada's catching up but still lags behind intelligence community peers

New book offers an unprecedented picture into how intelligence analysis feeds into Canadian public policy.

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Ontario Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy is applauded by Premier Doug Ford after delivering the Provincial Budget in the Ontario Legislature in Toronto on Wednesday March 24, 2021. Frank Gunn/THE CANADIAN PRESS.

Ontario finance minister on the province's post-pandemic recovery plan

Ontario’s finance minister is looking to the future as the province looks to exit this once-in-a-lifetime crisis and begin its recovery.

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The U.S. Capitol is seen in Washington, early Tuesday, July 27, 2021. Democrats are launching their investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo.

Ethan Zuckerman on why losing faith in institutions might be a good first step

It’s possible that in losing trust, we are actually wising up and becoming more critical.

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