Category Archives: General
What Canada’s pro-oil boosters fail to grasp about climate change – Macleans.ca
The Conservatives’ anti-carbon-tax message is selling like Ford F-150s in the Prairies, but it is not doing the party much good in other parts of the country, where most voters want climate action, although they always tell pollsters they want someone else to pay for it.
The horrible truth, the message that Thunberg will deliver in Montreal today, is that we have no choice but to pay. We can pay now or leave it for her generation to pay later, when the price will be much steeper, tragically steeper.
The problem is that we do not want to hear her message, not just because of the PR campaign telling us that we’re foolish to be alarmed—which is a lie—but because it’s easier to do nothing and let Thunberg’s generation deal with it.
It’s no wonder she is angry.
The Greta effect? Nanos survey suggests young voters turning on Trudeau
Polling data from Nanos Research shows that the proportion of voters
aged 18 to 29 who cite Trudeau as their preferred prime minister fell
from nearly 35 per cent to a little more than 24 per cent within 24
hours.
aged 18 to 29 who cite Trudeau as their preferred prime minister fell
from nearly 35 per cent to a little more than 24 per cent within 24
hours.
The NDP are polling at 13.18 per cent and the Greens at 12.63 per cent,
likely bringing the two parties into fierce competition.
“It’s like a double horse race … the horse race to win and the horse race to place third,” Nanos said.
The Greens have been hovering around 13 per cent for several days now –
their highest level ever, and approximately double the support they
were pulling during the early days of the campaign.
Boutique tax credits dominate Liberals and Conservatives campaigns once again | CBC News
To understand why these boutique tax proposals are so disappointing to policy experts, look first at why the broadly based approaches met with their approval.
Both the Liberal and Conservative broadly based tax proposals targeted the same group of Canadians. Two-thirds of Canadians make less than $46,000 a year; both the Liberal and Conservative plans would apply to that large cohort and reach a huge number of Canadians.
The recommendation is the first
of 142 calls to action laid out in retired Superior Court justice
Jacques Viens’s 520-page report released Monday.
of 142 calls to action laid out in retired Superior Court justice
Jacques Viens’s 520-page report released Monday.
“The
unequal relations that have been established have deprived Indigenous
peoples of the means to allow them to fulfil their own destiny and have,
in the process, given a certain mistrust of public services,” Viens
said Monday in Val-d’Or, the northern mining community where it was
released.
In the report, Viens said it is “impossible to deny”
Indigenous people in Quebec are victims of “systemic discrimination” in
accessing public services.
He said improvements are needed
across the spectrum, including in policing, social services,
corrections, justice, youth protection and mental-health services, as
well as to the school curriculum to properly reflect the history of
First Nations and Inuit in the province.