Canada’s changing right
For better or worse, the Canadian conservative movement is morphing into something new, something different. The voices which once mainly focused on pushing economic issues are fading away.
Newfoundland and Labrador election a wake-up call for federal Liberals
The message from the Newfoundland and Labrador election is loud and clear: Rural voices will not be silenced. The Canadian government needs to listen.
This is a wake-up call for Canada’s slumbering corporate class
The question: is corporate Canada ready to do its part? It certainly won’t refuse emergency funding to see it through the current uncertainty. But how able, and willing, is it to disrupt decades-old supply chains, retool its factories, and redirect its efforts away from the United States?
Can Carney ensure Canada is a true innovation nation?
Canada’s poor performance on innovation is apparent in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 2025 Global Innovation Report which ranks our nation in 17th spot, compared to 14th a year earlier.
AI study and Senate bills on alcohol warnings and sickle cell disease framework on Senate Social Affairs Committee’s agenda
Policy priorities for some Senate committee members also include digital health technologies, the impacts of climate disasters, and medical assistance in dying.
Canada needs to move much closer to Europe and Mexico, our future depends on it
It’s also time we dropped our anti-China bias. With a financially stressed America retreating into self-centred protectionism, it is time for Canada to assert its independence in a world of new allies and new opportunities.
Senate exempt from Carney’s spending review, but opts to launch own program audit
‘It seems there’s a new government in place that wants to be fiscally more responsible,’ says Conservative Senate Leader Leo Housakos, and the Red Chamber ‘can help them achieve those goals.’
‘Not-an-option’ changes to freelance contracts may worsen shortage of Hill interpreters, says association
Changes to contract rules for freelance interpreters may lead to their mass exodus from the Hill, and a troubling decline in quality, according to a group representing these workers.
Canadian foreign policy as performance art
Where does Canada fit into the new reality, if at all? Providing more humanitarian aid in the form of food and medical supplies is the easy part, but it is doubtful that Ottawa would contribute any soldiers as part of the temporary stabilization force envisaged in Trump’s plan.
Youth are not a monolith: Canada’s chance to lead in global democracy
With Parliament back, Canada has a chance to do more than listen, we can legislate with youth, design with youth, and rebuild trust with youth.
