Instead of trying to pick winners, Ottawa should level and simplify the playing field for entrepreneurs and investors alike
Category: Commentary
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The best comments from our readers this summer
Readers wrote in with comments on our articles on psychological workplace safety, two-tier child care, young people’s views on religion and more
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Editorial: Ottawa creates ‘two-tier’ child care with misguided policies
Ottawa’s aversion to child care being delivered by for-profit centres suggests deep confusion about the policy issues at play—and the government’s role
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Enough with the bubble zones. Protest is part of democracy
It is time for politicians to stop demanding that every location that attracts protesters receive “bubble zone” protection to prevent demonstrations
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Q&A with digital policy expert Peter Menzies on modernizing the CBC
‘If you want to serve the interests of Canadians, keep the services that citizens are interested in and get rid of the things that they aren’t’
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Tories are right to reform the CBC. But Canadians deserve details
Poilievre has been consistent, but not clear, about his pledge to defund the CBC. Here’s how the CBC ought to be reformed
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Claims about ‘safer supply’ diversion aren’t disinformation
This month, police in London, Ont., admitted to what critics have said all along: safer supply diversion is happening at alarming levels
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Editorial: What’s missing from Canada’s climate change debate
Canadian politicians and policymakers are frequently failing to situate climate matters in context—to the detriment of our policy and populace
Posted inPolitics & Policy
Canada must tackle its tech talent ‘brain drain’ problem
Research shows Canada has a tech talent ‘brain drain’ problem. To address our productivity crisis, we must work to keep talent here
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Parliament should make coercive control of elders a standalone crime
MPs recently missed an opportunity to make insidious patterns of elder abuse a standalone crime. This is unfortunate and must change