OTTAWA – The federal government could tap into a more than $9.3-billion surplus in the public-service pension plan over the next four years to ease mounting fiscal pressures – a move that could spark ...

Advocates were rightly frustrated when the federal government revealed earlier this year that the Canada Disability Benefit (CDB) to begin in 2025 will lift only about 25,000 people with disabilities ...

Following the last Quebec election in October 2022, many analysts once again predicted the demise of the Parti Québécois. The party had achieved its worst result since its foundation, garnering barely ...

OTTAWA – Canada’s ballooning public service has been bracing for spending and job cuts, and now unions are sounding the alarm that they are coming. With the federal deficit larger than anticipated, ...

OTTAWA – Treasury Board President Anita Anand is poised to table a report revealing a multi-billion-dollar surplus in the public-service pension plan at a time when the government is struggling to ...

Canada’s graduate students, specifically those in master’s and PhD thesis programs, carry out original research as they work toward their degrees. They are knowledge creators who make critical ...

The practice of changing the clocks is a historical legacy that no longer has any raison d’être. It’s not a question of opinion or personal preference, but of public health and scientific evidence. In ...

As we watch negotiations at the COP29 climate change conference and mark the one-year anniversary of Canada’s pledge to triple its nuclear capacity by 2050, the reality would appear to be clear: there ...

Immigration and Refugees Minister Marc Miller’s recently announced reduction in international student visas for 2024 and his subsequent statement about the “alarming trend” of an increasing number of ...

Laura Nilson Laura Nilson is a professor of biology at McGill University and associate dean (graduate education) in the faculty of science.

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The October decision by the Law Society of Alberta concerning former justice minister Kaycee Madu is deeply troubling, not only because it dismisses the realities of racial profiling but also because ...