Statistics Canada recently reported that in at least one respect this country is moving in the wrong direction. Income inequality has risen to the highest…

According to Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre “our country is broke.” The Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO), Yves Giroux, says the country can afford to spend much…

There is no issue of more importance than the environment. If we can’t learn to live sustainably on this unique and wonderful planet, civilization as…

Why are old Canadians so happy and young Canadians so unhappy? That’s the story the World Happiness Report (WHR) tells us. Every year the report…

Canada is a very free country, but unfortunately not a very democratic one. Not when our electoral system consistently gives us governments that most of…

Maybe federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is on to something. He shows little interest in the overarching issue of the day—climate change—while trashing the carbon…

Reading about the circumstances of the Palestinians in Gaza, I was reminded of a piece of our own history: the infamous pass system. In the…

One of the best articles I have read about the Hamas-Israel war is The New York Times “There Is a Jewish Hope for Palestinian Liberation.…

Witnessing the current state of affairs in our great neighbour to the south, the word polarization leaps to the tongue. In a previous post I…

The world isn’t a fair place. The rule of law doesn’t apply globally. Might is often right. This reality overarches Canada’s accusation that the Indian…

A recent Angus Reid Institute survey of Canadians’ approval (or disapproval) of their provincial governments’ performances was full of surprises while bereft of optimism. Angus…

Good neighbours share. But what Canada is sharing these days with its good neighbour to the south is not appreciated. I refer to the dense…