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Stephen Staley: Team Canada is distinct from Team Trudeau

Dec 9, 2024 | thehub.ca | Stephen Duane Staley

“We’re all team Canada.”What a noble sentiment, a warm and fuzzy maple refrain. No matter our age, the resonant ping of nostalgia for Team Canada moments—Paul Henderson, Sidney Crosby, Ben Johnson (briefly)—all stiffen our spines and make us feel something proud and unifying. How can we not wrap ourselves in this powerful call to action as we head, once more, into the breach of tough cross-border trade negotiations with a new Trump administration?
Stephen Staley: Escaping the media echosystem

Nov 23, 2024 | thehub.ca | Stephen Duane Staley

“Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.” – Alexandr SolzehnitsynIf you spent the last couple of months reading tea leaves in an effort to predict the outcome of the U.S. election, how close did your prediction hew to what came to pass?
Stephen Staley: Wait, why are we cheering on Vince Carter again?

Nov 5, 2024 | thehub.ca | Stephen Duane Staley

Sports fandom is irrational. Adults, cheering like children, for millionaires in colourful outfits, playing a game. We accept the irrationality of sports fandom because it’s fun, and helps shape culture, creating unique contours around a city, as we share experiences, passion, and pride. After a weekend of revisionist history and Potemkin emotions, something needs to be said about the vandalism against history committed against Toronto sports fans with the Vince Carter jersey retirement ceremony.
Stephen Staley: Bring on the carbon tax election

Sep 26, 2024 | thehub.ca | Stephen Duane Staley |Mike Colledge

Commentary 26 September 2024 Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre at a press conference in Ottawa, Aug. 29, 2024. Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press. Joe Biden was elected in 2020 with a single, dual-prong mandate: occupy the Oval Office and not be Donald Trump. On that core mandate, he was wildly successful. He achieved his lifelong goal of becoming president and averted (at least temporarily) Trump’s second term.
The Weekly Wrap: Canada now has its own ‘crisis of confidence’

Sep 14, 2024 | thehub.ca | Sean Speer |Stephen Duane Staley

Commentary 14 September 2024 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looks to the crowd as he listens to a question at a town hall event in Milton, Ont. on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. Cole Burston/The Canadian Press Sometimes the distance of time can cause the public to rethink its assessment of a politician.
Richard Shimooka: Want to fix national defence? Give Parliament more power

Aug 23, 2024 | thehub.ca | Richard Shimooka |Stephen Duane Staley

Last week in the first column of this Defence 2.0 series I identified a number of challenges facing defence in Canada. This column and the ones that follow in this series will propose reforms and solutions to them. In particular, the following one will examine how to address the lack of public and governmental knowledge about defence as well as aspects surrounding accountability. That road goes through Parliament. Educating adult Canadians on issues, defence or not, is highly challenging.
Stephen Staley: Score one for sanity. The tide is finally turning towards common sense drug policies

Aug 23, 2024 | thehub.ca | Stephen Duane Staley |Mike Moffatt

This week, a small but important argument for sanity and common sense was won by common people in a little neighbourhood just east of downtown Toronto. If readers followed the news, they may be confused, thinking the argument was bigger than one neighbourhood. Indeed, the Ford government that Ontario would close the 10 supervised consumption sites across the province that are within 200 metres of schools and childcare centres.
Trevor Tombe: Canadians are paying billions in hidden taxes on new homes

Jul 25, 2024 | thehub.ca | Trevor Tombe |Stephen Duane Staley

Commentary 25 July 2024 New houses under construction in Airdrie, Alta., Friday, Jan. 28, 2022. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press. According to the government of Canada, worsening housing affordability is “one of [our] greatest social and economic challenges.”That’s no exaggeration. The Royal Bank of Canada estimates that ownership costs for an average home would consume nearly two-thirds of the median household income. In Vancouver, it exceeds 100 percent.
Stephen Staley: Widespread deregulation is Canada’s golden ticket for economic growth

Jul 25, 2024 | thehub.ca | Stephen Duane Staley |Peter Menzies

A majority of Canadians think that Canada is broken after years of stagnant incomes, affordability challenges, rising crime, government failures on basic functions like healthcare and immigration, and a deepening cultural malaise. But decline is a choice, and better public policies are needed to overcome Canada’s many challenges.
Geoff Russ: A future Conservative government must fight the culture war, not stand idly by

Jul 24, 2024 | thehub.ca | Geoff Russ |Stephen Duane Staley

Commentary 24 July 2024 Newly elected Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks at the Conservative Party of Canada leadership vote, in Ottawa, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press.