Canada's ambassador told UN assembly the motion was too one-sided to support
Canada abstained today from a high-profile United Nations vote demanding that Israel end its "unlawful presence" in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank within a year.
Canada's Ambassador to the United Nations Bob Rae told the assembly the motion was too one-sided to support, though he said Ottawa agrees that Israel is illegally occupying Palestinian territories.
The government has dusted off a rarely used section of the Canada Labour Code and sought to pre-empt strikes.
Say what you want about the Liberal Government, but they certainly learn from their prior fumbles, at least when it comes to undermining the right to strike.
A re-elected NDP government would scrap British Columbia’s long-standing carbon tax and shift the burden to “big polluters” if the federal government dropped its requirement for the law, Premier David Eby said Thursday.
“If others are not going to devote funding to operationalize or weaponize the conservative vision, then the 85 Fund needs to weigh its support much more heavily in that direction.” —Leonard Leo, billionaire conservative activist and founder of the 85 Fund, in a letter to grantees
The China Shock Is Over—and More Tariffs Will Not Help Workers
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have profoundly different visions for the future of the United States. They wildly diverge when it comes to social issues, such as abortion. They do not agree on whether to raise or cut taxes. And they could take U.S. foreign policy in opposing directions, especially when it comes to the country’s alliance with Europe.
The proportion of Canadian business leaders who say they are worried about climate change jumped dramatically in 2024.
In a newly released report by Deloitte, 85 per cent of the 129 Canadian executives surveyed between May and June of this year said they "worry all or most of the time" about climate change.
That's a sharp increase from the 59 per cent who said they worried all or most of the time in 2023.
