No matter what course Canada’s energy transition takes over the next three decades, the effects will be dramatic on all aspects of Canadians’ lives. The use of nuclear power has the potential to provide the most straightforward, sustainable, and economically beneficial approach.
You can’t regulate platforms without also regulating the content creators who publish on them. One way or another, the Online Streaming Act empowers the government to wield a direct hand in the content we consume.
The uniformity of expertise might be less worrisome if we could trust that experts valued truth ahead of politics. But that’s not the case. We know just how ideologically insulated our sources of so-called expertise have become.
This episode of Hub Dialogues features former Governor of the Bank of Canada Stephen Poloz about his nominated book, The Next Age of Uncertainty: How the World Can Adapt to a Riskier Future.
Far from laying a sustainable, long-term foundation for these communities, substituting political intervention for market processes risks setting them up for future devastation by binding their fate to the need for perpetual taxpayer subsidies.
As Canadians continue to watch prices rise at the checkout, even as inflation shows some early signs of cooling, it’s fitting that a former Bank of Canada governor is on the shortlist of authors for the Donner Book Prize.
Every year, millions fall below the poverty line, but millions rise above it, too. We need a better understanding of the causes of and solutions to poverty than simplistic, emotional appeals.
This week’s Hub Dialogue roundtable discusses the eventful week in Canadian politics, with a Chinese diplomat being expelled from the country for his involvement in an intimidation campaign against an MP’s family and some raucous committee hearings on foreign interference in Canadian elections. We also talk about the design of the new Canadian passport, which soars to new heights of blandness
Perhaps the time has come to follow the recent English practice of having local voters elect police and crime commissioners who can devote all of their energies to such matters.
Like many lesser-known French wines, Picpoul de Pinet is easier to find in Quebec than elsewhere. In an ideal world, every French restaurant would have a Picpoul de Pinet by the glass.
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