Prison-reform advocate calls on feds to permanently kill the Joyceville slaughterhouse
The Joyceville Institution abattoir closed in 2022, and despite thousands of dollars in maintenance, getting the facility back up and running may no longer be economically feasible.
Let’s mobilize our veterans
Let the CAF focus on rebuilding its ranks, and expand on the existing veteran-led humanitarian organization Team Rubicon Canada.
Foreign interference registry should include more explicit contact with leadership candidates and nominations, says Democracy Watch
With misinformation and disinformation tied to foreign interference under the spotlight, a government think tank named “people cannot tell what is true and what is not” as the most likely of 35 potential future ‘disruptions’ for which Canada needs to be prepared.
Time to enforce the Polar Code in Canada’s Arctic waters
It is time to enforce the seven-year-old Polar Code, which aims to reduce the risk of an accident and loss of life in regions which are still isolated and very challenging.
Canada’s newest defence policy has vision, but lacks prioritization to strengthen Canadian Armed Forces
The new defence policy should have created a strategy that would see our military structured as a maritime force, prioritizing the CAF’s sea and air domains supplemented by space and cyber capabilities.
Foreign influence registry’s lack of legal carve-out undermines ‘sacred’ relationship, say lawyers
Unlike similar foreign influence registries in the U.K., U.S., and Australia, Canada’s version would not exempt legal advice from triggering an obligation to report.
CBSA: a troubled agency under the microscope
The government has not acted, despite CBSA becoming more of a failed agency that is too authoritative, too administratively weak, and too secretive.
BOIE approves new security funding, expanded MP-protection programs
Altogether, the Board of Internal Economy gave the nod to new funding totalling almost $24.6-million related to security earlier this spring.
Stopping the CAF ‘death spiral’
The Liberal government should put out the call for former service members to return to duty on an emergency call-up basis to enrol and train the new admissions.
‘Not used to them this early and this aggressive,’ says MP Ashton of Manitoba wildfires as communities evacuated
‘It’s going to take all of us to put a plan in place to get serious about climate change, so we can avoid this hell that many Northern and Indigenous peoples are increasingly facing,’ says NDP MP Niki Ashton.
