Oct 20 2018 — Don Lenihan — National Newswatch — According to the latest UN report on climate change, the world has 12 years to avoid catastrophe. Unfortunately, according to Behavioural Economics, humans aren’t hardwired to think long-term. Basically, our brains aren’t very good at assessing the risks. The irony would be comical if the stakes weren’t so high. So, how bad is it? The […]
Oct 19 2018 — Mark Goldberg — National Newswatch — Isn’t some kind of broadband better than nothing? The CRTC thinks so. And I agree. When the Commission released its plans for its $750M Broadband Development Fund earlier this fall, it decided that it would accept applications to provide broadband service at download speeds of 25 Megabits per second (Mbps) and 5 Mbps up, despite […]
Oct 17 2018 — John Milloy — National Newswatch — How have they gotten away with it? How have Doug Ford, Jason Kenney, and a cabal of other provincial politicians been able to separate the concept of a carbon tax from the threat of climate change? Remember climate change? The increase in temperature caused by human activity that is threatening our planet. According to the […]
Oct 12 2018 — Alex Binkley — National Newswatch — Boosting agrifood exports lies with making sure Canada is ready to compete internationally and that means tending to the trade, transportation and taxation policies, says Phil de Kemp, Executive Director of the Barley Council of Canada. The 3Ts, as he called them, are important to making Canada globally competitive “not just for value-added industries, but […]
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Oct 11 2018 — Don Lenihan — National Newswatch — Nationalism and populism are in the news this week. While Stephen Harper’s new book Right Here, Right Now is getting grabbed off shelves, for my money, a more obscure release, Tom Dixon’s The Hidden Tribes of America, is a far more rewarding read. Contrasting the authors’ views on polarization says a lot about their respective […]
Oct 11 2018 — Glen Pearson — National Newswatch — We have so many causes in our world, so many voices, so many injustices and so many opportunities. But in the end, it all might come to nothing, for the one great challenge overriding all others continues to remain an outlier. The world has known of the coming climate apocalypse for decades and warnings have […]
Oct 10 2018 — Alex Binkley — National Newswatch — Plan should be in place before USMCA receives final approval. OTTAWA—The federal government is under strong political pressure to deliver a compensation plan for dairy and poultry farmers in advance of signing the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement. Before starting its week-long Thanksgiving break, MPs from all parties backed a motion calling for a financial compensation […]
Oct 8 2018 — Steve Boms — National Newswatch — The national budget passed by Parliament this February requires the Department of Finance to offer findings and recommendations for a move toward open banking. Lawmakers didn’t set a deadline, but Finance Canada is already engaging with industry stakeholders to solicit input. Canada’s movement toward open banking cannot come soon enough. The march toward open banking […]
Oct 5 2018 — Alex Binkley — National Newswatch — Many still wading through the fine print of the USMCA to understand its full implication. OTTAWA—While the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) still needs to be ratified by the three countries, most Canadian farm groups are relieved that it will preserve existing agriculture commitments among them. One exception was the Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) which […]
Oct 3 2018 — Alex Binkley — National Newswatch — Links with other high growth sectors are crucial. OTTAWA – Agrifood leaders want the federal government to remove roadblocks to beefing up the economic clout of their and other high-growth sectors to boost the economy. The challenge is to keep the government departments focused on clearing away obstructions to growth and competitiveness identified in the […]
Oct 1 2018 — Glen Pearson — National Newswatch — One could almost hear the collective sigh of relief when news emerged yesterday of a tentative NAFTA deal between the U.S., Mexico and Canada. Technically, Donald Trump wants it renamed to the “United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement – or USMC.” Credit must be given to the negotiators from all three nations who were at it for a […]
Oct 1 2018 — Kai Bethke — National Newswatch — The number of people fleeing war and poverty in search of a better life in Europe has fallen dramatically in the past two years. In fact, it’s back to levels not seen since 2014. But since that time Europe has seen almost two million people move in amongst them, trying if possible to stay, and […]
Sep 27 2018 — Don Lenihan — National Newswatch — #MeToo may be powered by outrage, but it is a purposeful outrage. The women coming forward and standing together know what they want to change and why. Take Canada: between 2009 and 2014, only one in 10 sexual assault charges resulted in a conviction. And the other 90 per cent? Well, either the accusers were […]