Visible minorities were elected in numbers that reflect immigration and citizenship trends, but this was less so for women ...

Canada can have a network of modern, swift, affordable and efficient passenger trains, like virtually every other industrialized nation. Yet it doesn’t. In the 1970s, both the American and Canadian ...

The federal government has announced considerable extra funding for housing in recent months: the GST rebate on construction of new rental units; the first beneficiaries of the $4-billion Housing ...

After six weeks of public hearings, the public inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act came to a close on Nov. 26, 2022, after a marathon of 300 hours of testimony and 9,000 exhibits, and more ...

As we watch negotiations at the COP29 climate change conference and mark the one-year anniversary of Canada’s pledge to triple its nuclear capacity by 2050, the reality would appear to be clear: there ...

Canada is a middle power caught in the middle of geopolitical battles between China, the European Union and the United States. Most often, this puts Canada in a defensive or reactive position. The ...

For example, in 2017, the Vancouver Principles established international guidelines for child protection and peacekeeping training procedures in conflict zones. More than 100 countries have now ...

What started as a joke is no laughing matter now. U.S. President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again threats to impose tariffs on Canadian exports are more than a warning shot across the national bow.

In December, the government of China hit two Canadian organizations with systematic sanctions: The Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project and the Canada-Tibet Committee, along with 20 individuals. It’s the ...

The vaccine rollout is giving Canadians hope for an end to the COVID-19 pandemic. But before we contemplate a return to normal life, we must not lose sight of the virus’s devastating impact on ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are rapidly transforming our world, but the critical issues of the sovereignty of Indigenous data and Indigenous digital self-determination remain ...

Arthur Kornberg, the Nobel laureate biochemist, described basic research as “the province of the individual investigator and remains the lifeline of medicine.” He could have added that it is the ...