Howard Anglin: A hard life accounts for Sinead O’Connor’s pain. Her courage was her own
A hard life may explain pain, but it doesn’t account for the courage with which Sinead O’Connor met it. That came from somewhere deeper.
A hard life may explain pain, but it doesn’t account for the courage with which Sinead O’Connor met it. That came from somewhere deeper.
The success of the 2021 Canada-wide early learning and child care plan hinges on parents actually gaining access to subsidized spaces. Spending billions and finding that existing spaces can’t be filled due to staffing shortages isn’t a good look.
What does the front bench shakeup mean for the Trudeau government, and does the shuffle portend an election on the horizon? We have gathered some of The Hub’s most plugged-in contributors to offer their instant reactions and break it all down.
The recent return of inflation closer to its two percent target simply means prices are rising at a more normal pace, not that affordability has improved—these challenges are going to persist for many years to come.
MAID is not a routine or ordinary health-care service, and there are legitimate ethical and religious reasons some practitioners and communities of care would opt out of its provision.
Even in the context of the size voters want, big or small, we can still ask about effectiveness. Because like any other organization, there may be an optimal size for government for maximum efficiency and output.
If we want to preserve the hard-won gains that have made Canada one of the freest and most prosperous countries in the world, we have to rediscover a less satisfying politics: the work of governance.
A key issue is that Canadians accustomed to a long period of stable inflation and low interest rates have taken this for granted and built it into their economic expectations. The recent spike in inflation and especially interest rates has been an inconvenient lifestyle surprise.
The genius of prosperity is found not in government stimulus programs but in the ethic of work and discovery in average citizens who take pride in their labour. Prosperity and economic growth driven by ideas is a process initiated from the bottom up, not the top down.
The elite class is set to inevitably shrink, and it will be hard going as this happens. The case for doom is more convincing now than at any other time in the last 50 years or so.
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