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- Canada has a strong track record of leading on global food issues—one that we hope will continue. In 2009, responding to the global food crisis, Canada named food security as a priority for the aid program, and doubled aid for agriculture.
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- Canada has a strong track record of leading on global food issues—one that we hope will continue. In 2009, responding to the global food crisis, Canada named food security as a priority for the aid program, and doubled aid for agriculture.
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- The government must invest in the health of Canada, stop subsidizing polluters, and drive the well-being agenda by eliminating harmful toxics and plastics.
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- The government must invest in the health of Canada, stop subsidizing polluters, and drive the well-being agenda by eliminating harmful toxics and plastics.
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- Canada's focus should be on cementing rules-based, new trading partnerships with the Latin American countries in the Mercosur trade bloc, seeking even closers ties with the European Union, and expanding trade with the 11 Pacific Rim nations.
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- Canada's focus should be on cementing rules-based, new trading partnerships with the Latin American countries in the Mercosur trade bloc, seeking even closers ties with the European Union, and expanding trade with the 11 Pacific Rim nations.
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- Rose LeMay
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- When reconciliation is a value as well as a necessity in order to uphold Canada’s place in the world, then it doesn't get bumped off the priority list in budgetary discussions. It retains its place, just as Indigenous Peoples retain their position as key partners in this country we call Canada.
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- When reconciliation is a value as well as a necessity in order to uphold Canada’s place in the world, then it doesn't get bumped off the priority list in budgetary discussions. It retains its place, just as Indigenous Peoples retain their position as key partners in this country we call Canada.
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- Tim Powers
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- The government needs to realize the armchair play-calling about its aptitude or lack thereof in dealing with the U.S. is going to kick up.
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- The government needs to realize the armchair play-calling about its aptitude or lack thereof in dealing with the U.S. is going to kick up.
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- Scott Taylor
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- Now that documents used to allege that David Pugliese is a Russian spy have been debunked as forgeries, the Public Safety and National Security Committee must summon Chris Alexander to ascertain who supplied him with the false information.
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- Now that documents used to allege that David Pugliese is a Russian spy have been debunked as forgeries, the Public Safety and National Security Committee must summon Chris Alexander to ascertain who supplied him with the false information.
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- As important as Canadian defence issues might seem, what happens south of our border will have a far greater impact on our future as
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- With only roughly one in 684 Canadians serving in the regular forces, thinking that the country could mount any meaningful deployment to either Ukraine or Gaza on short notice is reckless.
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- Sheila Copps
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- This one-off is much more than it appears to be. Along with finalizing the fall date on a permanent basis, the government is also restructuring how it determines spending.
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- This one-off is much more than it appears to be. Along with finalizing the fall date on a permanent basis, the government is also restructuring how it determines spending.
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- Mark Carney needs something to show that Liberals don’t just care about mega-projects. No tax on food could be a good place to start.
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- How can you convince Americans that Tylenol is safe when the president says it isn’t? Again, the world is left wondering whether America is ruled by a madman who doesn’t believe in science, and would easily shut down all free and fair reporting if he could.
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- Susan Riley
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- Whatever the outcome of the NDP leadership campaign, Avi Lewis is a lively, intelligent player who could bring confidence and colour to a lustreless party. And he is definitely a match for both Pierre Poilievre and Mark Carney on a debate stage.
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- Whatever the outcome of the NDP leadership campaign, Avi Lewis is a lively, intelligent player who could bring confidence and colour to a lustreless party. And he is definitely a match for both Pierre Poilievre and Mark Carney on a debate stage.
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- Mark Carney appears open to changing details, if not his overall direction, in the face of pushback, and that direction is not dictated by
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- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is unlikely to offer any serious, fact-based critiques of the government’s shortcomings. He's a glib man, playing in the shallows, following a shop-worn script. Always has been, always will be.
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- David Crane
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- Meanwhile, we need much greater debate on our choices—and this is where Parliament is derelict in its duty.
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- Meanwhile, we need much greater debate on our choices—and this is where Parliament is derelict in its duty.
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- Canada faces enormous challenges and disruptive change in transitioning to an economy that can thrive in a world of sweeping change in technologies, markets
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- Canada has spent much of its history seeking to cement close ties with the U.S. while failing to seek opportunities elsewhere. We've failed to develop the Canadian-controlled firms with the scale and scope to serve world markets with unique products and services.
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- Gerry Nicholls
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- Doug Ford's photo-op may have been a silly and overly theatrical stunt, but as someone once said, 'if it’s stupid but works, then it isn’t stupid.' And, make no mistake, this worked for Ford.
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- Doug Ford's photo-op may have been a silly and overly theatrical stunt, but as someone once said, 'if it’s stupid but works, then it isn’t stupid.' And, make no mistake, this worked for Ford.
- By
- Michael Harris
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- If Donald Trump had laid out a detailed plan for a two-state solution, complete with deadlines, he would have richly deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. There is no Nobel Ceasefire Prize.
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- If Donald Trump had laid out a detailed plan for a two-state solution, complete with deadlines, he would have richly deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. There is no Nobel Ceasefire Prize.
- By
- Gwynne Dyer
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- Far too much money is being spent on long-odds bets that some new artificial intelligence tech will appear that justifies the current ridiculously high level of investment.
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- Far too much money is being spent on long-odds bets that some new artificial intelligence tech will appear that justifies the current ridiculously high level of investment.
- By
- Les Whittington
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- Budgets have always tended to be historical markers that stood as a defining or make-or-break moment for federal governments.
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- Budgets have always tended to be historical markers that stood as a defining or make-or-break moment for federal governments.
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- Erica Ifill
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- The prime minister is doing well on the leadership front relative to his opponents, but his early stats on community outreach, combatting fascism, and Indigenous reconciliation are poor.
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- The prime minister is doing well on the leadership front relative to his opponents, but his early stats on community outreach, combatting fascism, and Indigenous reconciliation are poor.
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- All of this political theatre, and they didn’t even destroy the uranium they pretended to seek. What a waste of time, money, and military
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- Bill C-5 is environmental racism, which this current government has no problem with committing since it can steamroll any study or assessment that proves as much.
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- Bhagwant Sandhu
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- Re-engagement with India makes strategic sense. Without political accountability and institutional backbone, it risks repeating past failures.
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- Re-engagement with India makes strategic sense. Without political accountability and institutional backbone, it risks repeating past failures.
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- As the UN debates Palestinian statehood on Sept. 22, the prime minister must decide whether to shape the conversation or to keep equivocating.
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- With the Carney Liberals occupying the centre-right, the Conservatives face a hard question: evolve to lead a changing Canada or stay stuck in a political cul-de-sac of grievance and nostalgia.
