Karen Restoule: Instead of cancelling Canada Day, we need to get to work
Cancelling Canada Day seems to be, in my view, the easy way out. And the people I know don’t take the easy way out. They face challenges with courage.
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Joanna Baron: The government’s new ‘online harms’ bill will not make hate speech go away
Bill C-36 will not make the problem of hate speech go away, but drive it underground, away from places where bigotry and prejudices can be corrected, and make it harder to track.
Livio Di Matteo: A brief and simple history of federal transfers from 1867 to 2021
Federal-provincial negotiations can be acrimonious but that they occur is a testament to the strength of the federal system rather than a weakness. It is only when everyone stops talking that should there be real concern as to the future and stability of Canadian federalism.
MP Dan Albas wants to shake up the status quo on student loans
In this Hub Dialogue, editor-at-large Sean Speer speaks to Dan Albas, the Conservative shadow minister of environment and climate change, about his plan to help young Canadians pay off their student loans.
Christopher Dummitt: This Canada Day, let’s cancel the cancellers
If ever there was a sign that we are spending too much time indoors away from genuine human contact, it is the idea that of all the countries in the world, Canada is the one with such an outrageous history of violence and oppression that we ought to cancel the annual national holiday.
Matt Spoke: While Canada dithers, El Salvador wagers on Bitcoin
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced that the country’s congress had just approved a law classifying Bitcoin as legal tender. Of course, the cynics rolled their eyes, and they’ll continue to do so.
How you feel about racism depends on where you live and who you vote for: Poll
The Angus Reid Institute poll shows that the percentage of Canadians who think diversity makes the country better is growing in lockstep with the size of Canada’s visible minority population.
Sean Speer: Centre Block’s massive price tag shows Canadian life is mired in red tape
We now find ourselves in the odd company of the Slovak Republic and other former communist states when it comes to the efficiency and expectedness of our regulatory processes. This isn’t generally a good sign.
Royce Koop: Beware the Tory syndrome
The Tory Syndrome therefore led to a vicious cycle: the party’s infighting resulted in part from a lack of power, and in turn made it even more difficult to win.
Howard Anglin: Bill C-32 elevates language over all other forms of diversity
The government’s proposed legislation will make the pool of potential Supreme Court justices more Laurentian and more elite.
