As it turns 75, NATO is as vital as it has ever been
For 75 years, NATO has remained the preeminent security institution in Europe, and the past two years have only reinforced that.
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‘Trump is loud, boorish, and a bull in a china shop’: The best comments from Hub readers this week
Hub readers this week discussed the issues of housing affordability, the federal government’s spending on EDI research, the return of the “Great Canadian Slump,” and polling on how Canadians’ are feeling about a potential second Trump presidency.
There's a reason premium wines have a premium price tag
The thing about making wines that fetch hundreds of euros a bottle is that one can afford to invest in their production. There are no clunkers.
One year after the Nova Scotia massacre report, it’s time to divide the failing RCMP in two
The status quo cannot go on. As things stand, a beleaguered, poorly structured RCMP leaves Canada a sitting duck to foreign interference, ideologically motivated violence, and global organized crime.
Conservative elites need to quit the condescension and actually make their case
For too long conservatives have been exclusive, ideologically purity-focused to the end result of navel-gazing. Quoting Friedman and Thatcher at cocktail parties while dismissing the real and valid concerns of fellow conservatives.
The 'Great Canadian Slump' is back
Unfortunately, income growth has stalled to rates rarely seen in Canadian history. Only twice in the past century have we lived through more sluggish growth than today—both during serious recessions.
Five years later, we're drifting away from our new North Star
Productive investments are badly needed, both from the public and private sectors. But because both the federal and provincial governments have failed to show restraint on spending, fiscal capacity has been gravely handicapped going forward.
The real problem with the Supreme Court calling a woman a 'person with a vagina'
The Court went out of its way to insert a legally and politically controversial statement into the decision when it was completely unnecessary to do so.
Supreme Court confirms that the Charter applies to Indigenous governments—except when it doesn't
The Supreme Court concluded that where the collective rights of Indigenous Peoples is in a real and irreconcilable conflict with individual Charter rights, the collective right will trump those rights.
How Indigenous participation can help drive the new nuclear age
Because public opinion and social acceptability will play such an important role in the pace of nuclear adoption in Canada, the ability of proponents to obtain the consent of Indigenous nations on whose territories nuclear projects are being developed will be key to both regulatory approvals and economic viability.
