Niagaran wines with a South African spirit
The Long Way Home is an impressive, rich, and powerful yet lean wine, like a long-distance runner. Crisp and citrus with food-friendly acidity, but tempered with a luxurious touch of custard cream.
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Our CPP fund may soon have over $1 trillion. It's time to debate the best use of that money
Sitting on $576 billion today—$200 billion more than predicted just a few years ago—the fund is projected to exceed $1 trillion by 2031 and hit a breathtaking $1.5 trillion only five years after that. It’s stuffed with more than enough money to pay out benefits for the next 75 years.
New 'landmark' safer supply study is junk science
Thousands of people are dying every year amid an unprecedented overdose crisis, and if this problem is to be solved, Canada must invest in addiction interventions that work. When bad science creates false hope, it costs Canadian lives.
Prime Minister Trudeau failed to follow his own advice on temporary foreign workers
In 2014, the then-Liberal Party leader wrote a scathing op-ed in the Toronto Star that excoriated the Harper government for the growth of the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP) under its administration and the need to “scale it back dramatically.”
Big tech unfriends the news
Canadian news outlets can no longer rely on platforms to consistently and regularly send millions of page views their way. The days when news was a big part of the search and social experience of Canadians appears to be over.
If you want to know how Pierre Poilievre would govern, try listening to him
Pundits assume a politician can’t be a populist and an intellectual, a savvy communicator and a policy wonk, a firebrand and a thinker. Just because Poilievre’s slogans resonate doesn’t mean there is no substance behind them, and just because they’re compelling to regular people, doesn’t mean they’re not informed by good policy.
MP Adam Chambers on why spending and the deficit will be big issues as Parliament returns
Conservative MP Adam Chambers discusses some of the big economic and fiscal issues that are likely to animate the upcoming session, including the likelihood that the government will stay within its own fiscal guardrails in the 2024 budget.
Canada really is broken right now
There’s a profound sense of malaise in the country right now. Although it has economic roots, it also reflects a deeper sense that the basic features of Canadian life aren’t functioning as well as they have in the past and that government is largely responsible.
Beware the tyranny of the minority
Both Canada and the U.S. are threatened by the tyranny of minority rule, just in different ways. The real problem in Canada comes from an unelected and geographically and socially homogenous group, known as the Laurentian Elite.
Uncle Louis: Canada's first internationalist prime minister
Our first truly internationalist prime minister started his journey in a tiny village in Quebec. Imbued with the social graces of small-town life, he proved to have just the right touch with voters.
