Andrew Bennett: The Chinese Communist Party is routing its oldest foe: religion
The lack of coherency in the government of Canada’s approach to China reflects a confusion of its interests and a hypocrisy in its values.
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Balkan Devlen: Wishful thinking is no substitute for strategy with China and Russia
Russia and China are strange bedfellows driven to one another by their shared neo-authoritarian ideology and conviction that the West is in terminal decline.
Deani Van Pelt: The pandemic made us reimagine work. Schools should be next
Reflecting back on this crisis, did our centralized school systems fail us? Wave upon wave of school building closures cannot be ignored and months of lost education cannot be dismissed.
Royce Koop: How to fix Canada’s political parties
Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen members go to party conventions and vote to approve policy resolutions that their leaders will surely ignore for the next election.
Janice Stein: Canada needs to walk and chew gum when it comes to China
The relationship between the United States and China will be the scaffolding of the international order that emerges from the ashes of two global events that bookended the last decade.
Federal budget sparks economic growth concerns
When the Liberal government came to power, it quickly tried to shift the focus away from deficits and onto the debt-to-GDP ratio.
Canadians are disturbed by the prospect of China as the next superpower: Poll
Seventy-five percent of respondents reported they are uneasy with the prospect of China becoming the next global superpower, according to survey data conducted by Public Square and Maru/Blue and provided exclusively to The Hub.
Michel Kelly-Gagnon: Liberty is a prerequisite of the good life
Classical liberals don’t value liberty purely as an end in itself and we don’t simply value liberty because we are nothing but libertines. Classical liberalism rests on a much more foundational and important insight about the central role liberty plays in enabling us to lead good, fulfilling, and meaningful lives.
Howard Anglin: Boomers aren’t innocent, but the prosecution’s case is weak
Cultural cohesion was already unravelling by 1968, when the first boomers cast their first presidential ballots
Livio Di Matteo: How can we spend so much on health, yet still fail so badly?
The immediate response in 2020 was an increase in total health spending as taken from assorted announced federal and provincial measures totalling $44 billion though much of it remains unspent.
