Donald Trump has hatched many threats to Canada’s prosperity over the years, both short-term and long. One of the greatest long-term threats, however, is largely of our own device: the threat that when Trump finally leaves, Canada will slump back into its favourite proverbial easy chair at the cottage (as if anyone can afford to buy a cottage nowadays) and relax. Read More

In 2019, as a member of the legislative assembly of British Columbia, I voted for the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA). DRIPA was intended as a framework to advance reconciliation like never before; a pathway for all British Columbians to walk hand-in-hand down a path toward meaningful reconciliation. Read More

A new book by Toronto-based photographer Marnie Salsky explores how Jewish identity “is shaped, witnessed and archived in the present moment, particularly amid rising antisemitism.” Read More

On April 17, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms turned forty-four. The same morning, Minister of Justice Sean Fraser toured the Library and Archives Preservation Centre in Gatineau, Qc., and told reporters he is considering guardrails around how Section 33 is used at the federal level. Section 33, the notwithstanding clause, allows Parliament or a provincial legislature to pass a law that operates notwithstanding certain Charter rights, for a renewable five-year term. Read More

A sovereign is required to be subtle, and today's Washington is singularly ill-suited to subtlety or self-awareness. Thus the best moments of King Charles III’s visit were likely lost on their targets, but not on the watching world. Rarely has the King had to deliver a speech in such sensitive circumstances, and it was a superlatively smashing success. Read More

Re: Not another Liberal slush fund! — Jack Mintz, April 28; Federal deficit smaller than expected in spring economic update, but with $37.5B in extra spending — Jordan Gowling, April 28; Carney accelerates Canada's fiscal collapse — Matthew Lau, April 30; and A year in, it’s time for Carney to start delivering — Joe Oliver, April 28 Read More