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Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during an announcement at the Nouveau Monde Graphite mine in Saint-Michel-des-Saints, Que., on May 19, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

Beyond regulation: Why committed leadership will decide Canada’s energy future

For Canada’s regulatory reform proposals to work, federal leaders need to stick to tight timelines even when faced with lawsuits and provincial pushback.
Diaspora distress is the psychological burden carried by people living in one country while their homeland — and the family, friends and memories embedded there — are under active geopolitical threat. (Vitaly Gariev/Unsplash)

Diaspora distress: When geopolitical conflict follows immigrant workers into the office

Millions of employees are living in two worlds. Researchers are only beginning to understand what that costs.
An archaeologist displays a 600-year-old English coin discovered on Newfoundland’s south coast at the Confederation Building in St. John’s, N.L. in November 2022. THE CANADAIN PRESS/Paul Daly

Canada has too few professional archeologists, and that has economic consequences

Protecting heritage in Canada requires training more archeologists and equipping them with the tools and education to do so.
A person wears wears an orange and red piece of cloth to symbolize the Indigenous children forced to attend and assimilate into residential schools as well as solidarity with the missing and murdered Indigenous women at a ceremony for Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples in July 2022, in Edmonton, Alberta. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

What’s still needed after the Pope’s residential schools apology? Sustained action, humility and heart

We must hope Pope Francis’s apology was merely the beginning toward Catholic Church accountability and repair around residential schools.
Google Maps is ubiquitous. Changing place names — like the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of American — under political pressure and without user consent is dangerous. (Priscilla du Preez/Unsplash)

Is Google Maps brainwashing us? It might be if the theory of ‘extended cognition’ is correct

When compared to how common it is for the Google search engine to boost misinformation, changing the name of a body of water might not seem like a big deal. It is.
An RCMP video shows migrants crossing the Manitoba border into Canada from the United States at night. It was taken from a surveillance aircraft in January 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

The hidden truth about migrant deaths at the Canada‑U.S. border

Tougher Canadian border measures in response to Donald Trump’s threats may make crossings more dangerous for migrants.
Justice Murray Sinclair, in black suit and sunglasses, during the Walk for Reconciliation, part of closing events of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in May 2015 in Gatineau, Que. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Carrying the spirit and intent of Murray Sinclair’s vision forward in Treaty 7 territory

Murray Sinclair’s firm approach to justice and reconciliation is part of what inspires me, as an intergenerational Survivor, to confront challenges rooted in colonization with strength and resolve.
The fundamental issue in southern Alberta’s meatpacking sector is not a shortage of labour, but rather insufficient wages. (Shutterstock)

The real issue at the heart of Canada’s meat processing industry isn’t labour shortages — it’s low wages

Canada’s beef processing sector heavily depends on low-wage immigrant and temporary migrant workers, exploiting them to sustain a workforce that is less likely to push for better working conditions.
People participate in a walk on the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit people in Saskatoon, Sask., on May 5, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Heywood Yu

Transportation equity: First Nation communities urgently need solutions now

Improving the intercommunity mobility of First Nation Peoples is a road to more inclusive and safer futures. This calls for recognizing Indigenous agency and sovereignty when developing solutions.
Girls’ class at St. Mary’s School, Blood Reserve, Alta., April 1933. (Provincial Archives of Alberta, OB10558)

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: Exhibit features stolen Kainai children’s stories of resilience on Treaty 7 lands

Survivors of multiple colonial school systems need their voices to be heard. An exhibit examines how colonial schooling policies over a century and a half influenced the Blood People.
There is debate about whether a health-care worker can ethically participate in both palliative care and the MAID program. (Shutterstock)

MAID’s evolving ethical tensions: Does it make dying with dignity easier than living with dignity?

Bill C-7 has created ethical tensions between MAID providers and palliative care, between transparency and patient privacy, and between offering a dignified death rather than a dignified life.
Members of the Assembly of First Nations perform in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope’s visit to Canada: Indigenous communities await a new apology — and a commitment to justice

Pope Francis and the Catholic Church must make a plan with Indigenous Peoples, not for us, in order to walk the path of reconciliation. Some initial suggestions of what a plan might include.
Tampa Bay Lightning and Toronto Maple Leafs hockey players stand for the national anthem in Toronto in 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn

‘O Canada’: Why I no longer stand for the national anthem

You can love a country and still hold it to account. I love Canada. But I won’t stand for the anthem at a sporting event or elsewhere, especially not when my kids are watching.

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