Reading Time: 3 minutes After years of delays, mixed signals, lack of consultation and broken promises, delivery of safe drinking water systems is long overdue
Author: Joseph Quesnel
Joseph Quesnel received a BA honours in political science and history from McGill University and is currently completing a master of journalism degree from Carleton University, with a specialization in public affairs reporting. Joseph has over 15 years of experience in print journalism including over three years as lead staff writer at the Drum/First Perspective, a national Aboriginal publication.
A lost economic opportunity in northern B.C.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Windy Craggy is a perfect example of how misguided environmental activism is fuelling northern alienation
CBC has outlived its usefulness
Reading Time: 3 minutes The policy rationale for the existence of the CBC no longer meets the reality of the modern age
Why Canada needs to develop its zinc deposits
Reading Time: 3 minutes Zinc is a critical ingredient in a variety of products, including soap. In the midst of a pandemic, we need to ensure supply
Fracking can lift the Maritimes out of economic doldrums
Reading Time: 3 minutes Maritime provinces and Quebec should be developing their resources now as natural gas prices recover
Mainstream media glosses over Indigenous issues
Reading Time: 3 minutes Media need time and resources to understand the issues and seek a range of views within the Indigenous world
Canada must re-establish itself as an energy superpower
Reading Time: 4 minutes While the Americans were acting in their own economic self-interest, our leaders were undermining our national energy interests
First Nations face deep pandemic risks
Reading Time: 3 minutes The terrible COVID-19 experience of Native American communities clearly carries lessons for Canada’s First Nations
We need to liberate Indigenous entrepreneurs
Reading Time: 3 minutes Talented, ambitious and resourceful Indigenous people continue to face systemic obstacles to start businesses
Let Quebecers decide the fate of a national pipeline
Reading Time: 3 minutes Confederation was designed as an economic union from sea to sea, linked by infrastructure that crosses provincial borders