Category: Canada

So, it’s voting day. I am pretty sure the Liberals are going to win a stonking majority, but regardless of who wins, there are deeper shifts at work which the sector needs to take seriously. Before I start, though, I need to take time to acknowledge something that happened last Wednesday. If you recall, I spent quite a bit of time discussing how the Conservatives had been pulling back on the “wokeness” issue. A few hours after I published that, CBC

Election 2025: The Minor Party Manifestos Morning all. As usual during federal elections, I devote some time to each of the party platforms before election day. Today, I am going to focus on the five parties that have absolutely no hope of forming government. Liberal and Conservative platforms will follow. In increasing order of likely seat totals: The new-and-centrist-and-made-some-kind-of- sense-when-Justin-was-running-but-harder-to-understand-now Canadian Future Party platform has a paragraph on postsecondary education. They’d like you to know they are in favour of more research.