While achieving net zero comes with a cost, it is entirely manageable. If Alberta saved just a little more of its resource revenues today, higher investment returns would more than cover the coming drop in resource revenues.
Deciding whether to make a student repeat a grade is something that needs to be considered on a case-by-case basis. This means making a decision in the best interests of the student. It’s not a time for ideological rigidity.
Critics of elitism are generally correct that a society based solely on merit moves society in the wrong direction. But when committees, or commissars, take over the central role of markets, the route for society takes an even more dangerous turn.
Ultimately, everybody serves at the behest of the new Czar and is in a constant effort to maintain their position of power, largely by ingratiating themselves with Putin. The Wagner mutiny was driven by Prigozhin’s own fall from grace.
Olivia Chow, the former NDP member of Parliament, is Toronto’s newest mayor after a byelection on Monday that was sparked by the surprise resignation of John Tory in February.
While public opinion appears on his side, Premier Blaine Higgs should be wary of calling an election over recent LGBT+ issues boiling over in New Brunswick. Culture war politics are particularly combustible in this present environment.
Whether you agree with them or not, Premier Higgs’ gender policy changes for New Brunswick’s schools are being made in search of a fair middle ground on a contentious public policy issue. They are not a deliberate political provocation.
International law may contain important guidance for the implementation of laws and useful resources for those who wish to critique existing laws. But unless Canadian legislatures adopt international norms as laws that govern Canadian citizens, those norms are, at best, guidance for the political branches of government.
The Canadian government’s failures to reach its 2 percent targets on defence spending seem like an obvious issue for Conservatives to exploit. Yet they don’t. It seems that Canadian defence and the nation’s relations with its allies are almost as unimportant to the Tories as they are to the Liberals.
Western governments now have powerful proof point of just how weak Putin’s hold on power is and it is far more fragile than they ever imagined up to this point in the conflict. Avoiding a collapse of the Russia regime will now be the West’s paramount policy.
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