The headline isn’t just some political or partisan question thrown out there as part of the everyday dialogue.  Across the world, democratic, progressive movements have their troubles.  Canada, a seeming bastion of security in an unsettled world, especially having just concluded an election, nevertheless contains enough disconcerting divisions to reckon the future as something uncertain. […]

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce has sent the following letter to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, the Honourable Chrystia Freeland. Dear Minister Freeland: Congratulations on your re-election as the Member of Parliament for University-Rosedale and your reappointment as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. I greatly appreciate your efforts on behalf […]

In a remarkable numerical coincidence, a 36-day election campaign is being followed by a 36-day transition period before the swearing-in of the new federal cabinet next Tuesday. And it will be nearly a month after that before the new Parliament meets on Nov. 22, for the election of a Speaker followed by a throne speech, […]

It is a big day in Canadian political history as we pause, as always, to mark the birthday of one late Prime Minister, while also marking the maiden address in the House of another. It was on this date in 1919 that Canada’s 15th Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau was born. He went on to […]

And so it begins. The reality check for the Conservative Party of Canada. Instead of rising, the CPC is now a political phoenix sinking into the ashes of Election 2021. The most recent Angus Reid Institute numbers show that only 54 per cent of Conservative voters want Erin O’Toole to lead the party into the […]

Each of the three national political parties is a hollow shell at the local level in many parts of Canada. Each party has ridings where the flag is kept flying by a handful of — usually — aging activists. This exposes them to takeover by determined outside groups. No one is more vulnerable to this […]

Last week, Canadian Blood Services (CBS) announced that they have received authorization from Health Canada to expand their plasma donation eligibility program, implementing a new behaviour-based screening questionnaire in select cities that will no longer explicitly exclude gay and bisexual men who have sex with men (MSM) and some trans people. The new question asks […]

In a province that routinely holds Senate elections and has plebiscites on whether there should be fluoride in the drinking water, finding the dumbest thing on the ballot in an Alberta municipal election can be a challenge. But that’s much easier this year, given the Kenney government has decided to ask Albertans whether they want […]

Virtually every day some new breakthrough technology is released with the potential to transform the workplace. The pace of change is dizzying. And the demand is rapidly growing among Canadians for seamless access to new tools wherever they work – in the office, at home, on their smartphones. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the embrace […]

One of the most vivid descriptions of the personal afflictions of war that I’ve ever heard came from a Montreal cab driver recalling what it was like to grow up in the remote hills of Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley during the civil war of the 1980s. “I was just hitting puberty when the explosions started,” the […]