At a glance, the seven priorities outlined in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s mandate letter to his cabinet ministers may seem entirely disconnected from environmental concerns. Issues such as housing, ...
The federal government says it’s committed to reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples. We hear it in political speeches, read it in press releases and watch as leaders attend Indigenous Peoples Day and ...
The best remembered speeches in Canadian history have come at moments of crisis and uncertainty, when prime ministers capture the public’s imagination through carefully crafted performative speech ...
The world we knew is no more. Change is essential. That is Prime Minister Mark Carney’s mantra, and there’s no doubt that change is needed. We are confronted by a hostile neighbour, face a disrupted ...
Image caption: In Canada, immigrants are numerical “targets” to achieve in a given timeframe. International students are deemed the “ideal immigrants,” a common racist stereotype. SHITTERSTOCK This is ...
With a minority government in Ottawa, a federal election is possible at any time – triggered either deliberately or by accident. This encourages political observers to check opinion polls as often as ...
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are rapidly transforming our world, but the critical issues of the sovereignty of Indigenous data and Indigenous digital self-determination remain ...
Since the early January U.S. arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, the Trump White House has doubled down on the idea that the United States should acquire Greenland, which has ...
Artificial intelligence tools, including ambient listening devices or AI scribes, are transforming the health-care sector. However, they have also opened a new area of clinical risk in terms of ...
That is how much Canada’s “core” federal public administration — the civil service — has grown since Justin Trudeau’s government took office in 2015. The raw numbers are even more striking. There are ...
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is committed to a Canadian defence industrial strategy (DIS), although the final shape and scope are still unknown. Implementing the new Canadian strategy will ...
In early October, B.C. NDP Premier David Eby and Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth announced they intend to introduce legislation that will further criminalize people who use drugs, a move that ...