Only the United States benefits from renegotiating the Canada-U.S ...
WEB1 day ago · By Blayne Haggart, Brock University, The Conversation. There is a ticking time bomb at the heart of the North American economy. And this is the year that it begins to detonate. Over the past several months, Canadian businesses and analysts have been pressuring the federal government to better prepare for the mandated renegotiation of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) that ...
Bulking up the Privy Council Office isn’t the solution to what ails …
WEB11 hours ago · The next federal government we elect, whenever that happens, will have its hands full as Canada struggles with a stubbornly sluggish economy while global conflicts and trade disputes draw precious time and attention. Housing, climate, immigration, reconciliation, disruptions caused by AI – the ...
What Tory leadership candidates should learn from the mistakes …
WEB11 hours ago · The Conservative party is choosing a new leader, with four candidates still in the running: Kemi Badenoch, James Cleverly, Robert Jenrick and Tom Tugendhat. Each is pitching to a party in dire need of a new direction and the path ahead is far from clear. Our recent research suggests the candidates ...
Canadian cities need a new funding model and the national capital …
WEB3 days ago · More than 80 per cent of Canada’s 41 million people live in a city, more than double from a hundred years ago, yet the way we fund cities hasn’t changed since the 19 th century. And while cities are responsible for 60 per cent of Canada’s infrastructure, they only collect 10 per cent of tax dollars.This needs to change. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed poor long-term planning. For decades ...
Ontario extends contract to jail migrants for another year
WEB3 days ago · After initially announcing it would stop incarcerating migrants as of June 15, Premier Doug Ford’s government agreed to extend its contract with the federal government until July 31. It has now decided to maintain the controversial practice for another year, according to information obtained by Radio-Canada. Following a request from the ...
Liberals survive first confidence vote after the end of governance ...
WEB5 days ago · The Liberal government has survived the first of what is expected to be a series of confidence votes during this fall sitting. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre brought forward a non-confidence motion this week in an effort to topple the government and trigger an early election.
While voters may have tired of him, Trudeau looks forward to a …
WEBSep 13, 2024 · Standing by the docks in downtown Nanaimo, B.C., on Monday morning, Liberal MP Alexandre Mendes told (new window) Radio-Canada she came to this week’s Liberal caucus retreat with a message from her constituents: dozens and dozens of them were adamant the Liberal Party needed a new leader. Speaking later to CBC’s Power & Politics, Mendes said it was hard to pinpoint a specific reason or ...
The Liberal-NDP deal is dead — but that doesn’t necessarily mean …
WEBSep 5, 2024 · Trudeau asked about NDP move to end deal with Liberals. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, speaking after NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh announced online that he was ending his party’s supply-and-confidence agreement with the Liberals, said he hopes the NDP ‘stays focused’ on delivering for Canadians rather than politics.
Canada’s treatment of internationally trained physicians …
WEBAug 26, 2024 · By Elliot Goodell Ugalde, Queen’s University, Ontario, The Conversation. Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program has recently come under intense scrutiny, with a new United Nations report by a Special Rapporteur characterizing it as a systemic “breeding ground for contemporary slavery.”. The report criticizes the Temporary Foreign Worker Program for limiting workers’ freedom of ...
Make Canada stronger by supporting the health of refugees
WEBSep 21, 2024 · Supporting refugees fosters a stronger Canada. Once here, according to a recent report by the United Nations Refugee Agency, refugees say they feel deep belonging to Canada. Many of them become citizens, start businesses and research shows that their children complete high school, college, university and graduate degrees at high rates, thus ...