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No easy outs: leaders should wrestle with tensions for a great budget

  • Budgets represent a set of difficult choices where society’s greatest needs come head to head with the cold reality of what our public finances
Opinion | BY DAVID JONES | March 4, 2024
One can sense Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, left, and Treasury Board President Anita Anand have a strong desire to support Canada’s most vulnerable groups as the feds are pushed on fiscal discipline, writes David Jones. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

No easy outs: leaders should wrestle with tensions for a great budget

Opinion | BY DAVID JONES | March 4, 2024
  • Budgets represent a set of difficult choices where society’s greatest needs come head to head with the cold reality of what our public finances

No easy outs: leaders should wrestle with tensions for a great budget

Opinion | BY DAVID JONES | March 4, 2024
  • Budgets represent a set of difficult choices where society’s greatest needs come head to head with the cold reality of what our public finances
One can sense Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, left, and Treasury Board President Anita Anand have a strong desire to support Canada’s most vulnerable groups as the feds are pushed on fiscal discipline, writes David Jones. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

No easy outs: leaders should wrestle with tensions for a great budget

  • Budgets represent a set of difficult choices where society’s greatest needs come head to head with the cold reality of what our public finances
Opinion | BY DAVID JONES | March 4, 2024
One can sense Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, left, and Treasury Board President Anita Anand have a strong desire to support Canada’s most vulnerable groups as the feds are pushed on fiscal discipline, writes David Jones. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

No easy outs: leaders should wrestle with tensions for a great budget

Opinion | BY DAVID JONES | March 4, 2024
  • Budgets represent a set of difficult choices where society’s greatest needs come head to head with the cold reality of what our public finances

No easy outs: leaders should wrestle with tensions for a great budget

Opinion | BY DAVID JONES | March 4, 2024
  • Budgets represent a set of difficult choices where society’s greatest needs come head to head with the cold reality of what our public finances
One can sense Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, left, and Treasury Board President Anita Anand have a strong desire to support Canada’s most vulnerable groups as the feds are pushed on fiscal discipline, writes David Jones. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Canada’s international self-awareness will help to offset Brexit-style risks

  • Canada may not quite have the U.K.’s economic and/or political power, but it has a healthier appreciation of its relative strength on the world
Opinion | BY DAVID JONES, GRAHAM WATSON | January 31, 2024
Then-U.K. prime minister Boris Johnson bangs a gong inside 10 Downing Street the moment the U.K. left the EU on Jan. 31, 2020. 10 Downing Street photograph by Andrew Parsons

Canada’s international self-awareness will help to offset Brexit-style risks

Opinion | BY DAVID JONES, GRAHAM WATSON | January 31, 2024
  • Canada may not quite have the U.K.’s economic and/or political power, but it has a healthier appreciation of its relative strength on the world

Canada’s international self-awareness will help to offset Brexit-style risks

Opinion | BY DAVID JONES, GRAHAM WATSON | January 31, 2024
  • Canada may not quite have the U.K.’s economic and/or political power, but it has a healthier appreciation of its relative strength on the world
Then-U.K. prime minister Boris Johnson bangs a gong inside 10 Downing Street the moment the U.K. left the EU on Jan. 31, 2020. 10 Downing Street photograph by Andrew Parsons

Statistics Canada finds deficiencies in Canadians’ health, which governments must address now

  • The Canadian health-care system has been deteriorating over many years to the point of crisis. Holistic, proactive health policy actions are urgently required.
Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, DAVID JONES | September 25, 2023
Then-Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, pictured in 2022. Fourteen per cent, or 4.7 million Canadians, do not have regular access to a primary heath caregiver. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Statistics Canada finds deficiencies in Canadians’ health, which governments must address now

Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, DAVID JONES | September 25, 2023
  • The Canadian health-care system has been deteriorating over many years to the point of crisis. Holistic, proactive health policy actions are urgently required.

Statistics Canada finds deficiencies in Canadians’ health, which governments must address now

Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, DAVID JONES | September 25, 2023
  • The Canadian health-care system has been deteriorating over many years to the point of crisis. Holistic, proactive health policy actions are urgently required.
Then-Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, pictured in 2022. Fourteen per cent, or 4.7 million Canadians, do not have regular access to a primary heath caregiver. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Health care in Canada is in crisis

  • None of the issues affecting our health care are new. What's new is its continuing deterioration to the point of crisis and the broadening
Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, DAVID WALKER, DAVID JONES | July 3, 2023
Minister of Health Jean-Yves Duclos, centre, at a June 19, 2023, press conference. Nothing much seems to be going on to fix the problems with our quickly eroding public health-care 'system,' write the authors. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Health care in Canada is in crisis

Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, DAVID WALKER, DAVID JONES | July 3, 2023
  • None of the issues affecting our health care are new. What's new is its continuing deterioration to the point of crisis and the broadening

Health care in Canada is in crisis

Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, DAVID WALKER, DAVID JONES | July 3, 2023
  • None of the issues affecting our health care are new. What's new is its continuing deterioration to the point of crisis and the broadening
Minister of Health Jean-Yves Duclos, centre, at a June 19, 2023, press conference. Nothing much seems to be going on to fix the problems with our quickly eroding public health-care 'system,' write the authors. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

House committee’s health workforce report has critical gaps left to be filled

  • The House Health Committee's report is welcome, but deficient in its lack of specific recommendations on actions to alleviate the current crisis and prevent
Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, DAVID JONES | March 29, 2023
Premiers attend a press conference in Ottawa on Feb. 7, after the release of the federal government’s updated health-care deal with provinces. The forthcoming bilateral federal-provincial health-care funding agreements provide an opportunity and mechanism to formally look at intergovernmental collaboration. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

House committee’s health workforce report has critical gaps left to be filled

Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, DAVID JONES | March 29, 2023
  • The House Health Committee's report is welcome, but deficient in its lack of specific recommendations on actions to alleviate the current crisis and prevent

House committee’s health workforce report has critical gaps left to be filled

Opinion | BY DON DRUMMOND, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, DAVID JONES | March 29, 2023
  • The House Health Committee's report is welcome, but deficient in its lack of specific recommendations on actions to alleviate the current crisis and prevent
Premiers attend a press conference in Ottawa on Feb. 7, after the release of the federal government’s updated health-care deal with provinces. The forthcoming bilateral federal-provincial health-care funding agreements provide an opportunity and mechanism to formally look at intergovernmental collaboration. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

U.S. Department of State’s Human Rights Report focuses on labour issues, women, and Indigenous people

  • WASHINGTON, D.C.—On April 20, the Department of State released its annual Human Rights Report (HRR). Officially designated Country Reports on Human Rights Practices—2017, the
Opinion | BY DAVID JONES | May 28, 2018
The annual U.S. Department of State's Human Rights Report, considered existentially a socio-political document which has long moved past 'traditional' human rights, is one of the few legacies of Jimmy Carter’s presidency, writes David Jones. Photograph courtesy of Flickr

U.S. Department of State’s Human Rights Report focuses on labour issues, women, and Indigenous people

Opinion | BY DAVID JONES | May 28, 2018
  • WASHINGTON, D.C.—On April 20, the Department of State released its annual Human Rights Report (HRR). Officially designated Country Reports on Human Rights Practices—2017, the

U.S. Department of State’s Human Rights Report focuses on labour issues, women, and Indigenous people

Opinion | BY DAVID JONES | May 28, 2018
  • WASHINGTON, D.C.—On April 20, the Department of State released its annual Human Rights Report (HRR). Officially designated Country Reports on Human Rights Practices—2017, the
The annual U.S. Department of State's Human Rights Report, considered existentially a socio-political document which has long moved past 'traditional' human rights, is one of the few legacies of Jimmy Carter’s presidency, writes David Jones. Photograph courtesy of Flickr

Law of holes of Canadian style

  • WASHINGTON, D.C.—After more than a generation of excavation in the Middle East, the United States government finally concluded that the hole it has been
Opinion | BY DAVID JONES | January 29, 2018
Does anyone remember Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan returning from a tour of Mali, South Sudan, Central African Republic, and Democratic Republic of Congo in September 2016? 'Canada is back' was the subtext. The Hill Times file photograph by Andrew Meade

Law of holes of Canadian style

Opinion | BY DAVID JONES | January 29, 2018
  • WASHINGTON, D.C.—After more than a generation of excavation in the Middle East, the United States government finally concluded that the hole it has been

Law of holes of Canadian style

Opinion | BY DAVID JONES | January 29, 2018
  • WASHINGTON, D.C.—After more than a generation of excavation in the Middle East, the United States government finally concluded that the hole it has been
Does anyone remember Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan returning from a tour of Mali, South Sudan, Central African Republic, and Democratic Republic of Congo in September 2016? 'Canada is back' was the subtext. The Hill Times file photograph by Andrew Meade

U.S. annual human rights report released, no one notices

  • WASHINGTON, D.C.—One of the hardy perennials of U.S. foreign policy is the annual Human Rights Report (HRR). Officially known as Country Reports on Human
Opinion | BY DAVID JONES | March 27, 2017

U.S. annual human rights report released, no one notices

Opinion | BY DAVID JONES | March 27, 2017
  • WASHINGTON, D.C.—One of the hardy perennials of U.S. foreign policy is the annual Human Rights Report (HRR). Officially known as Country Reports on Human

U.S. annual human rights report released, no one notices

Opinion | BY DAVID JONES | March 27, 2017
  • WASHINGTON, D.C.—One of the hardy perennials of U.S. foreign policy is the annual Human Rights Report (HRR). Officially known as Country Reports on Human

U.S. human rights report still an international benchmark

  • WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Department of State’s annual human rights report (HRR), officially labelled Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, is one of the few
Opinion | BY DAVID JONES | April 25, 2016
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, pictured. In contrast to practice by previous secretaries, Kerry devoted significant time to addressing human rights abuses when releasing the human rights report. He avoided the traditional 'naming and shaming' of a laundry list of abusers. Although urging action to resolve the ongoing conflict in Syria, he specifically praised human rights progress in Tunisia, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Burma, Vietnam, and Azerbaijan. Photograph courtesy of the U.S. Department of State

U.S. human rights report still an international benchmark

Opinion | BY DAVID JONES | April 25, 2016
  • WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Department of State’s annual human rights report (HRR), officially labelled Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, is one of the few

U.S. human rights report still an international benchmark

Opinion | BY DAVID JONES | April 25, 2016
  • WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Department of State’s annual human rights report (HRR), officially labelled Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, is one of the few
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, pictured. In contrast to practice by previous secretaries, Kerry devoted significant time to addressing human rights abuses when releasing the human rights report. He avoided the traditional 'naming and shaming' of a laundry list of abusers. Although urging action to resolve the ongoing conflict in Syria, he specifically praised human rights progress in Tunisia, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Burma, Vietnam, and Azerbaijan. Photograph courtesy of the U.S. Department of State
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