‘If the loss and heartbreak are beyond measuring, it is also the case that this vast country felt very, very small this past weekend.’
Toronto’s Cabbagetown neighbourhood is in danger of developing a reputation for unreasonable opposition to all change.
The “Deadly Force” investigation by CBC News released last week, chronicling deaths in which police were involved across Canada from 2000 to the present, was as shocking as it was unsurprising.
A welcome proposal to include turbans and hijabs in the Montreal police uniform code may revive ugly forces of intolerance in Quebec.
‘It’s called the Pay Transparency Act and the government needs to be clearer that it will live up to its name and make publicly available the gender gap wage reports of businesses — and not just the very largest ones.’
‘The CBC needs to figure out what it can do best as a public broadcaster and, just as important, what no other organization can do well.’
Voters should reasonably be suspicious of any aspiring premier reluctant to face the most rigorous scrutiny.
What is absolutely clear, according to a new report from Bob Rae, Canada’s special envoy to Burma and Bangladesh, is that we can and must do more to help stop the violence and displacement, aid the victims and hold the perpetrators to account.
‘It’s the house — not the tree — that’s out of place. And the city should do what it must to save it.’
At 560 pages, the Trudeau government’s latest budget implementation bill is too long and contains too much for Parliament to properly review the important measures it contains.
The freedom-of-information system is too slow, too expensive and needs to be fixed.
‘As part of its wide-ranging package of reforms to the criminal justice system, the federal government proposes a major change that would make the system less fair and in all likelihood won’t make it any speedier, either.’
‘Plogging’ is born of an almost unstoppable annual force meeting the easily moveable objects of winter.
The Facebook data mining controversy has focused new attention on troubling holes in Canada’s privacy protections.
‘If baseball is not quite as transcendent as it once was, it will still do until something better comes along.’
The Blue Jays certainly shouldn’t profit from those who would use technology to control supply, thereby unnaturally driving up the price.
Nobody can get enough of the royal-to-be, and even if they could, much, much more is coming. Plus: Which Suicide Squad star is a creepy hitchhiker? (You already guessed, didn’t you?)
