With one in five Canadians experiencing a mental health issue each year, the state of mental health in our country is nothing short of alarming. It’s time to stop treating mental health as a secondary concern and recognize its fundamental … Continue reading →

Last week, the Prime Minister announced that he’d be seeking to introduce legislation in Parliament to provide a two-month break on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) for groceries, some essential items, and some gift … Continue reading →

It’s starting to feel a bit predictable, but workers at another major federally regulated industry have been pushed into a labour dispute for the third time in as many months. Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) employees at Canada Post … Continue reading →

CBC’s The Fifth Estate recently broke the news that the Canada Revenue Agency had discovered that hackers had managed to obtain confidential data on taxpayers used by private tax firm H&R Block. Fraudsters then used the confidential information, including H&R … Continue reading →

From the early days before Confederation, Canada’s earliest settler leaders treated Indigenous peoples as others. They created systems that were designed to assimilate Indigenous peoples and strip them of their identity and their culture. One of the most widely recognized … Continue reading →

For almost a month now, the House of Commons has been at a standstill. It’s been paralyzed over a dispute about how and when the government should release documents related to its green technology fund. So what’s going on and … Continue reading →

On October 1st, the Prime Minister made an astonishing admission that hasn’t made much of a ripple on most mainstream Canadian media. That day, he appeared on Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith’s Uncommons podcast to discuss his thoughts on the next … Continue reading →

Canadians are understandably feeling a little anxious about health care these days. The past few years saw the Canadian health care system strain under the pressures of the Covid-19 pandemic. Doctors and nurses who did everything they could to keep … Continue reading →

In late September, Jennifer Morgan, the German state secretary and special envoy for international climate action made a relatively innocuous comment that seemed to prod a wide range of responses from businesses and political leaders across Canada. As an environmentalist … Continue reading →

In the first week of September, following Labour Day, New Democrats formally ended the Supply and Confidence Agreement with the governing Liberals. While some observers seemed shocked by the deal breaking when it did, others seemed to have been surprised … Continue reading →