WORLD VIEW: Child care deal should put priority on not-for-profit services
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province is “very, very close” to striking a multi-billion-dollar child care deal with Ottawa.
Indeed, as the lone holdout...
WORLD VIEW: Spotify must do better on fighting COVID misinformation
Over the past few days a number of brave artists have taken a valiant stand against the lies and misinformation being promoted on Spotify.
In...
WORLD VIEW: Boris Johnson and ‘partygate’: all played out
In the days when he combined the job of Tory MP with editing the Spectator magazine, Boris Johnson was forced to go to Liverpool...
WORLD VIEW: Vatican should return Indigenous artifacts and records of residential schools
Sometimes the Vatican can appear so obsessed with papal bulls and encyclicals, and its frequent rounds of damage control, and managing people’s naughty bits,...
WORLD VIEW: COP26 in Glasgow was a bust
It takes a lot of chutzpah to claim success for a climate conference whose own president had to fight back tears as he confessed...
WORLD VIEW: Tax havens: Bring them to heel
Five years after the Panama papers exposed the vast scale of offshore banking and business services via the activities of the wealth management specialist...
WORLD VIEW: Some reject vaccines, others are denied them
What are the best ways to make sure the indifferent protect themselves from COVID: vaccine passes for public places, pop-up clinics or Deliveroo discounts?...
WORLD VIEW: Afghanistan withdrawal: a retreat into uncertainty
By bringing home US troops from Afghanistan, and leading NATO and allied forces out of the country, the U.S. president, Joe Biden, is acting...
WORLD VIEW: A line has been crossed in Belarus
In recent months, Europe has watched impotently from the sidelines as Alexander Lukashenko brutally reasserted his illegitimate authority over the population of Belarus. The...