Justin Trudeau just became Rachel Notley’s worst enemy
For a guy who said he wasn’t interested in fighting with Alberta, the prime minister is sure throwing a lot of jabs these days.
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The risk for pandemics is increasing
After three years, COVID-19 is slipping from our collective consciousness, fading into the background, including its origins as a zoonotic infection linked to our use of animals.
A grand strategy for Canada in 2023?
Canada’s middle power strategy has served the country very well indeed. Why then, its defenders will inevitably ask, should we consider changing course now?
Free speech isn’t what Jordan Peterson thinks it is
What do Jordan Peterson, Pierre Poilievre and Elon Musk have in common? None of them understand how free speech actually works — especially in Canada, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
Poilievre opts into 241.8% inflation
Pierre Poilievre’s crypto catastrophe is more than a humorous political pratfall, writes public policy consultant Adil Sayeed.
The burning case for climate crisis post-secondary education in Canada
Today, progress is being made, with over a dozen climate crisis courses now offered at major universities in Ontario. But none of those are mandatory courses for all undergraduate students, regardless of their discipline.
Dr. Kevin Liang calls climate change the biggest threat to everyone’s health
Dr. Kevin Liang is a family physician practising in Vancouver. This 28-year-old is passionate about planetary health and tackling health-care's carbon footprint.
Canada’s not ‘broken,’ but Poilievre is doing his best to break it
Winnipeg Free Press columnist Tom Brodbeck looks at how the Conservative leader’s rhetoric is paving a more dangerous road, one that fuels extremist views and intolerance.
Pierre Poilievre, political arsonist
Pierre Poilievre has been starting political fires all across the country over the last year, columnist Max Fawcett writes.
Spoiler alert: Avatar extends ‘settler fantasy’
Winnipeg Free Press columnist Niigaan Sinclair writes on how the sequel continues the “settler fantasy” as the Indigenous people in the film are, once again, unable to save themselves.
Portraits of Poverty
Canada is one of the world’s richest countries, yet millions of Canadians are poor. We meet three of them, looking at the measures they must take to survive and at the roots of poverty in Canada.
The denial of safe drinking water for Indigenous Peoples is a social disparity that must end
As part of #JusticeBeginsHere, Human Concern International has launched its national Water for Life campaign to educate Muslim Canadians on the lack of access in Indigenous communities.
‘Personally, as I have grown in faith, I have seen my concern and love for the environment grow, too’
Young Canadians from diverse faiths and spiritual practices are at the forefront of climate justice action.
Canada should resolve to make alcohol more expensive in 2023
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is upset that taxes on alcohol are going up at the rate of inflation. The real question is whether they should be going up even more, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
Convoy brats desperate to regain celebrity status
A strange thing happened to the leaders of the so-called freedom convoy during their occupation of downtown Ottawa last winter: they became celebrities. Now they desperately want back into the spotlight and plan to use another gathering — this time in Winnipeg — to reclaim their infamy, writes columnist Tom Brodbeck.