Tag: Columnists
Doucet: Truckers’ protest is fuelled by eroding trust in government
This trust gap has been allowed to grow and fester because a succession of federal and provincial governments have refused to take on the really important structural issues that affect every day of our lives.
COLUMN: 10 points to consider in ending Ottawa’s anti-government protest
Ottawa is at a proverbial crossroads. More chaos and bloody violence is one road. The other road is de-escalation.
Sims: Until we close the global vaccine gap, we remain vulnerable
This week, I read with interest that one of my international COVID-19 heroes has been recognized with a Nobel Prize nomination for a plan to vaccinate the world. If you’ve followed any U.S. coverage of the pandemic, you’ll recognize Dr. Peter Hotez, the bespectacled, bow-tie-wearing dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor […]
Peace: Donations needed to preserve key piece of London’s Black history
In 1847, two decades before Canada came into being, a group of people who had fled their enslavement came together under the auspices of the African Methodist Episcopal Church to erect a chapel for their community. For two crucial decades — as the United States’ Fugitive Slave Act and its Civil War pushed Black people […]
Pearson: South Sudan feels hit as COVID cuts support to aid groups
COVID has forced us to turn inward, both to survive and to protect others. To do so, we’ve had to put aside some important things that touch us. One significant consequences of this pandemic has been a steep decline in support for international development projects worldwide. Groups like Canadian Aid for South Sudan (CASS), of […]
Baranyai: Trudeau comes close to a ‘deplorables’ misstep
The diverse aims of the trucking protest that rolled into Ottawa last weekend inspired more than one major news outlet to describe the convoy as a “bug light,” attracting protesters with a deep bench of grievances beyond vaccine mandates for border-crossers. It’s an evocative metaphor for a movement that has drawn conspiracy theorists and white […]
Dyer: North Korea isn’t going to give up nuclear weapons, but that’s not a crisis
“They want to have a deterrence system that is like a scorpion’s tail,” said Prof. Kim Dong Yup, a former South Korean naval commander. “North Korea’s main purpose is not to attack but to defend themselves.” They want a “diversified deterrent capability,” adds Kim — and who could blame them? North Korea’s missile tests are […]
Sims: Church of God constitution court fight stirs up rhetoric, bad memories
It’s been a slow, tedious courtroom trudge down a terrible memory lane most of us want to put behind us.
Sims: Trial shows ‘COVID abyss’ hurting courts, despite major adaptations
The Crown said Samnang Kong’s trial was stuck in “a COVID abyss.” Kong was supposed to be in a London courtroom Monday for his second-degree murder trial. Instead, his face appeared on a teleconferencing call into court from the Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre, wearing a facemask and the requisite orange jail garb. Sometimes he leaned into […]
Dyer: Big shift lies ahead for world populations
In the politics of population, the magic number is 2.1. That is replacement level: if a country’s fertility rate (the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime) is 2.1, then the country’s population will remain level. Above that number, it starts to grow; below 2.1, it eventually falls.