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Where does the Conservative Party of Canada go from here? How can Canadians put their trust in a political party that denies "climate change is real?" asks Gerald Kutney.
When we work to create a fair and affordable Alberta, we ultimately build a strong public service, writes Alberta Union of Provincial Employees president Guy Smith.
Perhaps the real reason for the Alberta government's "ruinously stupid" campaign is to deflect attention from the province's sorry economic state, writes Max Fawcett.
The Trudeau government’s refusal to offer ongoing COVID-19 relief to student loan borrowers is indicative of a larger problem plaguing post-secondary education in the last few decades, writes #FreezeTheNSLSC organizer Patty Facy: Student debt is profitable.
Enbridge calls Line 5 “as good as new” and says it can last “forever,” even though the pipeline has failed at least 33 times since 1968, spilling more than 1.1 million gallons of oil in Michigan and Wisconsin, write Maude Barlow and Jim Olson.
For many people around the world right now, it’s not just the threat of contracting COVID-19 that most concerns them — it’s whether their families, especially their young children, can survive another day without food.
We should be skeptical of those who offer recommendations in a field in which they lack the relevant training and competence, writes philosophy professor Colin Ruloff.
Canada’s longest coastline in the world, along with the U.S.’s largest exclusive economic zone, makes for an ocean-based North American blue economy powerhouse of the future, writes Kate Moran.