Pizza night is a secular sacrament that orders time and locates you within it. It reassures and comforts by imposing rhythmic familiarity onto a world of kaleidoscopic disorder. And who couldn’t use that?
A low Canadian dollar means that a bottle of California Zinfandel is going to get more expensive. Or, more insidiously, that bottle is going to cost the same amount of loonies, but it’s going to be made with lower-quality grapes.
Conservatives and liberals are not even speaking the same language when it comes to drug policy. For the conservative, the existence of crime is itself repugnant and warrants a stricter approach. In contrast, the liberal is focused on more gentle nudging and believes incentives will eventually produce their ideal society.
Today, we are seeing the impacts of a dedicated focus on reconciliation extend beyond awareness of the darker shades of our shared history and toward recognition that Indigenous Nations are leading the country through major project development.
A Canadian Journalists Fund should be established by statute and sustained by a levy on advertising revenues earned in Canada by companies such as Meta/Facebook, Alphabet/Google, and others. The governance of the fund would be by the industry alone, transparent by law, and fire-walled from the government to ensure the maintenance of public trust.
A slate of four federal byelections turned out roughly according to expectations on Monday, although the Conservatives got a mild scare in a riding that has traditionally been a stronghold for the party.
There’s a pervasive sense that Canada lacks ambition. We’ve had lackluster economic growth for decades, and while our cities have become expensive places, we don’t seem to build much anymore.
The government had options that may have kept Paul Bernardo in a maximum security facility.
What if we could build a common identity, inculcate a shared national vision, and address some of our economy’s biggest challenges all at once? Eighteen-year-old Canadians should be required to perform a mandatory year of service in the military or caring for seniors or children.
There’s something perverse about the news media relying on two founding sources to which it often finds itself investigating: big government and big tech. The potential consequences for journalistic decision-making as well as the public trust are profound.
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