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In 1961 Montreal started planning its Metro Subway. The city at the time had 2 million people. Ottawa Gainteau's current population is 1.6 million. If current... more
April 21, 2024
Scholars of political science have distinguished between two not-entirely-distinct categories of political representation: substantive representation, the... more
April 9, 2024
We, the undersigned, are calling on you to address urgently the rise of incivility, public aggression and overt hatred that are undermining the peace and... more
By unpubadmin
April 2, 2024
April 2, 2024 Finance & Corporate Service Committee Agenda: 2024 Tax Policy – Multi-residential Tax Rate
Dear Mayor Sutcliffe:
I am writing to you... more
By AlexCullen
March 27, 2024
February 22, 2024
Corey Gil-Shuster interviews Gen Zers from Israel as part of his Ask Project initiative to better understand how Israelis and Palestinians view each other. In... more
February 14, 2024
OTTAWA, ON (February 15, 2024): In a new report, The politics of the culture wars in contemporary Canada, senior fellow Eric Kaufmann uses a nationally... more
February 15, 2024
I wish to respond to the recent article on a Universal Basic Income by James O'Grady. It may not be clear to all readers what is meant by the acronym "UBI",... more
By Joe Foster
February 4, 2024
On January 10, Indigenous journalist Brandi Morin was arrested by Edmonton police in broad daylight while covering a police raid on an encampment.
Morin did... more
By unpubadmin
January 30, 2024
Part of Donald J. Trump’s public persona is to behave like a pouting tween. This trait was on display Tuesday night after the New Hampshire primary results... more
By unpubadmin
January 27, 2024
On January 10, Elon Musk responded to a post about the recent influx of undocumented immigrants into America with a baldfaced lie. He claimed, on his platform... more
By unpubadmin
January 26, 2024
I feel that all the ‘year ender’ interviews and reviews sound exactly like what we’ve been watching and listening to for the entire the year. So much so that... more
By RobDekker
January 27, 2024
In my Ottawa Citizen column this week I talk about an idea whose time, finally, is coming: Giving legal personhood to natural phenomena worth protecting. Like... more
January 26, 2024
Within my lifetime the human population has gone from a little over 2 billion souls in 1950 to a little over 8 Billion in 2024. We have been the dominant... more
By Paul Strome
January 15, 2024
How can the Nazis’ fanatical hatred of the Jews be explained? Answering the question, Italian scientist, writer and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi said, “... more
By Peter Biro
January 23, 2024