Airlines in need of help are still cool to idea of federal ownership stake

The head of the advocacy group representing Canada’s largest airlines says federal ownership in the sector isn’t the right way to fix the industry’s COVID-induced woes.

Travel restrictions and consumer fears of catching the virus have reduced air travel by about 90 per cent, leading airlines to drastically cut service and lay off thousands of workers. 

The collapse, and a lack of direct support from the federal government to date, prompted aviation workers to rally on Parliament Hill on Tuesday to urge Ottawa to craft a plan to safely reopen air travel and get employees back to work. 

Federal politicians need to accept reconciliation is hard work, not an aspiration

Federal politicians need to accept reconciliation is hard work, not an aspiration

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Recent violence over Nova Scotia lobster fishery rights is an object lesson in the importance of federal politicians having the courage to do the hard work of reconciliation. It’s not yet clear politicians have taken that lesson.

A Word to Progressives Who Want to Punish the NDP

As the provincial election battles rages, some progressive voters want to punish the BC New Democrats and Premier John Horgan for calling an election — one they can actually win to form a four-year majority social democratic government.

Other progressives are thinking about denying the BC NDP their support because of Site C.

Perhaps some feel that the New Democrats are going to win anyway, so they can cast a protest vote or just not vote at all to express their displeasure.

I am here to argue that would be a mistake. Have they forgotten what it was like for progressives to be out of power in the province for 16 long, depressing years?

Instagram Was Affecting My Mental Health, So I Quit. Here's What I Didn't See Coming.

Whenever I’ve used Instagram with any frequency, I have found it to be the most expedient way for me to feel simultaneously inadequate, overwhelmed and depressed.

Instagram mothers were cooking gourmet plant-based meals for their kids, while I was popping open boxed macaroni and cheese. Instagram entrepreneurs were making millions in business at the age of 25, while I was trying to figure out the next chapter in my career at 40. On Instagram, my contemporaries embodied #BlackGirlMagic, while I was feeling completely unremarkable.

BC Liberal Candidate Voted Against Motion Recognizing That Science Shows ‘Human Activities’ Cause Climate Change

One of Andrew Wilkinson’s Vancouver Island BC Liberal candidates voted against a motion to recognize that “human activities” are causing climate change during a local town council meeting earlier this year.

Duck Paterson, the BC Liberal candidate for Nanaimo–North Cowichan, was one of five Ladysmith town councillors that voted against an amendment recognizing that “human activities are causing climate change.”

Jason Kenney admits Alberta must be seen to be taking climate action to secure bank loans for oil and gas projects

Jason Kenney may have missed it, but Lyndon Johnson's famous comment about how certain people weren't up to walking and chewing gum at the same time was an observation about their lack of intelligence, not their ability to get away with saying contradictory things at the same time.

Alberta's premier is said to be a pretty bright guy, so presumably he understands what the Democrat from Texas had in mind when he pithily observed that Republican congressman Gerald Ford was "so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time."

B.C. youth are organizing for climate candidates this election — even if many can’t vote

Harrison Johnston remembers standing in a little coffee shop last September, watching in awe as a massive crowd marched from Vancouver City Hall to the Central Library downtown.

Then a lead organizer with Sustainabiliteens, a youth-led climate movement in Metro Vancouver that coordinated the Sept. 27, 2019, climate strike, he said he had only expected up to 20,000 people. Instead, the protest became the largest in the city’s history, with over 100,000 people filling the streets.

‘Unprofessional’: Doug Ford’s Long-Term Care Minister Won’t Answer Questions, Storms Out Of Press Conference

Ontario’s Long-Term Care Minister stormed out of a press conference Monday after a reporter attempted to ask questions about the minister drawing a comparison between COVID-19 deaths in long-term care homes and a “particularly bad flu year.”

Video from the press conference shows LTC Minister Merrilee Fullterton abruptly ended the event as soon as Queen’s Park Briefing reporter Jessica Smith Cross stated her name.

“I’m sorry, I think we’ll have to go now,” Fullerton said before walking out of the press briefing room.

Much like Dorian Gray’s portrait, Trump is a reflection of America’s soul

As many have noted, United States President Donald Trump embodies the very worst American traits. If one were to caricature America’s vices, from bombast to narcissism, heartless individualism and toxic machismo, one would come up with someone who looks very much like Trump.

Yet, by imbuing the president with all of America’s faults, supporters of Joe Biden and the Democratic ticket place too much faith in electoral politics. The removal of Trump will not erase America’s faults. Instead, like Irish playwright Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, Trump is just a reflection of America’s very soul.

Jagmeet Singh on Power in the Pandemic Parliament

Jagmeet Singh is on the phone explaining why the survival of the Liberal government has worked to the benefit of the New Democratic Party he leads.

“We haven’t allowed them to follow their own agenda, we have used this chance to push our own. We have fought for our own policies and improved theirs.”