The dispute over the CBC’s access to the Ford government’s mandate letters to its new cabinet in 2018 is before the Supreme Court. But regardless of the outcome, it will not fix our broken access to information system whose problems go much deeper.
Instead of a just transition plan, what we actually need is a low-carbon export strategy that strengthens the domestic conditions for the development and adoption of low-emitting technologies and shapes the global trading and reporting regime for accounting for carbon emissions.
This first edition of The Hub’s monthly transatlantic diary touches on Rishi Sunak’s impossible task as Tory leader, Canada’s impressively underfunded and underperforming military, and the news of Frasier’s return to television.
Protests are a legitimate part of democratic life. However, there are limits to what anyone will or should accept. The idea that people have the right to cosplay as revolutionaries and occupy a city indefinitely is utter nonsense.
Despite the many attempts to do so, Jordan Peterson’s message will not be stifled, even when institutional regulators attempt to rein him in. We should worry for the rest of us, though, who do not have the same platform or support to resist progressivism’s pervasive reach.
If we want to have productive debates about the most effective public policy, then we must escape our tendency for binary thinking along polarized lines. Let’s consider how to best equip youth to be better citizens and improve our civic culture in the long run.
Canadians pay exorbitant prices to travel or to use our phones simply because the airlines and telecom companies in this country are shielded from any meaningful competition. Their service sucks, their costs soar, and the government stands by and watches.
Where and how it is made will always be a primary focus of any wine. But let’s not forget that wine is made by particular people and is the product of their work and the choices they make while doing it.
Canada has little excess capacity to sustain losses or provide tanks to Ukraine without harming readiness. A more prudent course of action would be for Ottawa to provide capabilities that it can sustain and reliably deliver for the length of the conflict.
Research shows that porn consumption is associated with a raft of negative individual and collective consequences that warrant greater attention in Canada. Politicians across Canada, in general, are not addressing pornography, and Canadians pay the price.
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