The costs of climate change are piling up, and can no longer be ignored. 2015 is poised to be a landmark year, with a new global treaty on climate to be signed in Paris. In contrast, the Harper decade succeeded in stalling any meaningful climate action. The PM’s record is…
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My kids attend an elementary school in the Ottawa-Carleton DSB, one of the boards that decided against handing out report cards this year (because inputting the final letter grades, already submitted by teachers to administration, is somehow too onerous a task, even with a month’s warning). It frustrates me that…
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Late yesterday afternoon, by a vote of 44 to 28, the Senate approved the government’s overkill anti-terrorism legislation, Bill C-51, without amendment. (You can see who voted which way at this link.) By doing so, Senators ignored an almost airtight consensus in Canada’s legal community that the security and information-sharing reforms…
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A recent media release from CIBC said the newly announced higher contribution limits for Tax Free Savings Accounts were prompting 27% of Canadians to save more. That’s startling news, if true. Just how reliable are statements like this? They come from an Angus Reid Forum poll of 3,000 Canadians, conducted…
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Balancing the budget is at the heart of governmental discourse, but it’s only a pretense that has nothing to do with most initiatives implemented for its sake. The true aim is not to save money, but to pursue the state’s transformation initiated under Jean Charest, i.e. managing public services like…
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