There’s something odd about outsourcing responsibility for the government’s policy decisions to two private companies based on the dubious argument that they “owe” the Canadian news media for having come to dominate the digital advertising market.
This week’s Hub Roundtable discusses the bizarre state of housing in Canada, where an income near the top ten percent is necessary to get into the Toronto market. Is this creating divisions in our society down class and age lines? We also talk about the growth of the global middle class and what it means for Canada’s ability to compete in the world.
There is a temptation among reporters to see any kind of pushback or criticism as an assault on our role in the democratic process. We should be careful about that.
UR Regina and Egale Canada have threatened to sue Saskatchewan’s government over its policy of requirement that parents be informed and their consent obtained for their child’s pronoun or gender identity changes.
This episode of In Conversation with David Frum features the causes and consequences of a possible Chinese economic crisis and what it would mean for Canada and the global economy more broadly. They also cover renewed calls to criminalize so-called “Indian residential schools denialism”.
COVID-19 is over but our downtowns are still sick with it. The damage being done to our cities by continuing the work-from-home regime when it’s no longer necessary is real. We need to go back to the office.
Even the gravest of past wrongs cannot justify circumventing fundamental democratic principles today. It’s imperative that the principle of popular rule remains intact even when we look at ways to address injustices or achieve other worthy goals.
A new report makes the case that Sweden has come out of the pandemic in better overall shape than almost all of Europe.
Institutionalizing the Harper government’s Strategic Review model can help the Trudeau govenment to rebuild an internal culture in favour of fiscal prioritization and overall budget discipline.
This episode of Hub Dialogues features host Sean Speer in conversation with David Samson, an anthropologist at the University of Toronto and leading scholar on biology and human evolution, about his new must-read book, “Our Tribal Future: How to Channel Our Foundational Human Instincts into a Force for Good.”
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