Energy sovereignty is economic sovereignty, and there’s no faster route to energy sovereignty than by harnessing the fully renewable energy resources that are already abundant within Canada and whose value is not dependent on export markets.

For the rest of this century, Canada is guaranteed to have an increasing need for water bombers and other tools to combat climate change. It is less certain we’ll need weapons of war.

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland was photographed holding a scarf bearing colours associated with a far-right Ukrainian paramilitary group from the Second World War this past weekend.

This is the unfinished story of the floods that rocked central Canada in May, 2017: after helpful military members cleared out, after politicians talked about revising flood plans, some residents and homeowners are still on hold. They are still waiting to find out if they can rebuild, if they can go home, if their politicians have concrete plans for helping them in the future.