This week’s Hub Roundtable looks ahead to Thanksgiving weekend and discusses the general feeling of malaise that seems to permeate North America. We also debate whether this fiscal discontent sets the stage for a former central banker to take over the prime minister’s job. Are things falling into place for former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney?
Complex issues do not tend to lend themselves to the silver bullets and acting on comprehensive solutions can be much harder. It remains to be seen whether the government thinks the impact of high food prices is serious enough to warrant more serious action.
Despite its relatively small size, Napa Valley is a big brand. The success in the 1970s that established Napa Valley terroir has ultimately led to more freedom for the winemakers, in the field and in the cellar.
Vancouver’s dizzying home prices will never come back down to earth until the city uses its limited land more efficiently, said the French writer and urbanist Alain Bertaud at a recent event in the city.
Rather than providing a wide range of possible considerations, Alberta’s pension plan campaign offers only a single piece of analysis that significantly overstates the potential benefits of a separate provincial plan.
This is another example of an increased willingness among provinces to use section 33 of the Charter and, in the case of Saskatchewan, to use it preemptively, before the courts have made a judgment on a law’s constitutionality.
This episode of Hub Dialogues features Alexandra Hudson, a writer, commentator and founder and curator of Civic Renaissance, about her new, must-read book, The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves.
The takeaway from the decision is obvious: registration is the first step toward regulation with the Commission already envisioning the prospect of regulating a wide range of services.
Canada is in the midst of a mental health crisis. Economic challenges, rising social media use, and the COVID-19 pandemic have culminated in a surge of anxiety and depression which we lack the capability to fully address.
The bottom line, is that, while it keeps insisting it doesn’t intend to regulate the content of podcasts, it is very concerned about the content of podcasts and if it can’t legally regulate them, it’ll make sure someone else does it for them.
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