Those who have spent decades lamenting the separation of religion and public life, and made a political career out of integrating it when it suits them, are now to be found advocating their own formula for keeping religious teachings out of the public discourse.
Canada has shifted from being one of the most redistributive countries in the OECD to one of the least redistributive.
Balanced budgets sound appealing to many voters, but legislation to balance the books each and every year is poor economics.
While there remains room to increase efficiencies and gain greater value for money, bending the cost curve requires fundamental reforms to the way we manage and deliver health services in Canada.
It is simply not the case that younger Canadians are being heavily taxed or will be more heavily taxed down the road to pay for the modest public pensions of seniors.
After more than four decades of conservative rule, here’s a primer on the top eight progressive policies Albertans embraced with the election of a majority NDP government under Rachel Notley.
In moving away from coal, Alberta would be in the mainstream of a trend that’s now picking up speed around the world.
Unions are democratic organizations that belong to their members. As such, they are an important voice in the democratic political process.
Now what Pope Francis needs to do, what we all need him to do, is to move ecological insights and imperatives from the margins of his church’s teachings to the centre of Catholic moral teaching, to make them critical to the identity of the faithful in the world.
