Alberta Politics: You can never believe anything until it’s been officially denied: The UCP just denied it wants to privatize health care

If it is truly an axiom of practical politics that you can you can never believe anything until it’s been officially denied, we now have confirmation Danielle Smith’s government is bent on privatizing health care in Alberta.  Home of the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy, publisher of Premier

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Dead Wild Roses: Limits in Society

Having established norms and boundaries in society is a good thing.  Is the balance between personal freedom and what is good for society perfect? Of course not. But the current system which is always under small scale revision, is a reasonable way forward.  The basis of this incremental move toward

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Alberta Politics: China’s spending money to undermine Canadian democracy? If they’ll just leave us alone, we’ll take care of it ourselves! 

If the People’s Republic of China is trying as hard as the Conservative Party of Canada insists it is to undermine Canadian democracy, it’s hard to understand why they’re bothering.  Retired Canadian national security advisor Wesley Wark (Photo: Centre for International Governance Innovation). After all, if they’ll just leave us

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Canadian Dimension: To renew working class resistance, the labour movement must be democratized

CUPE school support workers on strike in Nova Scotia. Photo courtesy the Canadian Union of Public Employees. Since its initial publication in 1988, From Consent to Coercion: The Continuing Assault on Labour by Bryan Evans, Carlo Fanelli, Don Swartz, and the late, Leo Panitch has offered leftists an exhaustive history

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Northern Reflections: Getting It Wrong

Things are not going well for Canada’s oil advocates. Max Fawcett writes: Timing, as they say, is everything. And the timing right now for opponents of the federal government’s much-maligned Impact Assessment Act couldn’t be much worse. Arguments around the constitutionality of the act, which has been widely branded as

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