Author: Cam Holmstrom

These are difficult days, which seems to be an understatement to say at the moment. What’s worse is that we know they are going to get more difficult, as Covid-19 spreads further and it’s effects on health, daily life and the economy grow We know now that it’s not a

Democracy can be a messy thing in the best of times and sometimes partisanship can be a Hell of a drug. Regardless of those facts, democracy is the best way to govern without a doubt as no system is perfect and I’ll gladly take the messy parts of this system

It’s amazing to think how much things can change in a year. It’s been just 12 months since Ottawa was completely caught up in the SNC-PMO Scandal, the words of the Hon. Jody Wilson-Raybould and the entire circus that came from that. In that majority government, different House of Commons

As the World reacts to Covid-19 and grapples with how to best protect people, we’re seeing a lot of examples of things that should be done. Here at home we’ve seen some health officials make some very good suggestions about ways to be prepared and be ready for this situation;

Today I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison and Shane MacKenzie on the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about a very bad day on the stock markets, what the Federal government can do to help & discuss how should we approach our day to day

2020 has been a very hard year so far and with everything that’s going on in the World, I think we can agree that we are dealing with some very hard times and big issues. It’s in these moments that we look to our elected leaders to rise above the

This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We spoke about about the growing impact of COVID-19 on the World, the stock market and the response to it. We also discussed the latest in the Conservative Leadership

Through out the entire Wet’suwet’en protests there has been one thing that I’ve always stood on and come back to as my touchstone; why are you there to protest? That’s been my lens through all of this. If you’re there to support the rights of Indigenous peoples to choose for

The newest episode of “Cdnpolicast” is now up. In this episode Alyson Fair, Susan Smith, Neil Brodie and I talk about Canada’s current political context and how it’s affecting decisions being made across sectors.  We also talk about the latest from the Conservative leadership race, including Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s

It was just earlier today that I wrote about some of the events of the past couple of days in the Conservative Leadership race. While those two stories were interesting onto themselves, they really didn’t change the narrative of what this campaign has been so far: The Peter Mackay Coronation

My time working in politics showed me a lot of things and exposed me to a lot of situations. But one thing that I saw too much of that I never understood, nor likely ever will, is some peoples out and out dogged adherence to certain ideological views. What I

It’s been close to a week since the first list of approved “applicants” for the Conservative Leadership race were announced, which included a surprise or two. Since then the race has moved forward, with candidates not named Peter MacKay and Erin O’Toole trying to make a splash, trying to defend

As a total poli-geek, I can’t help but follow politics from all over the place to a certain degree. It’s a part of my nature and I always find what happens elsewhere interesting, for the lessons they might teach us and for ideas. But sometimes I watch politics in other

In 2019 we saw a lot of provincial elections come up, with big campaigns happening in a few provinces. But in 2020, it seems to be a lighter year for that. While we may see earlier elections in places like New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador due to minority government

Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison and Shane MacKenzie on the “Political Heat” panel. We talked how people are preparing for Covid-19, to what degree should individuals prepare & the latest developments in the draft agreement between the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs, Canada and

This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We had a good conversation about the draft deal between Canada, B.C. and the Wet’suwet’en, the Conservatives thinking of changing their approach to Indigenous Rights and the governments reaction

This weekend brought some welcomed and good news from Smithers, British Columbia. After a few days of talks and negotiations between Canada, B.C. and the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs arrived at an agreement to acknowledge land & title rights. The draft deal is tentative, subject to approval by the Wet’suwet’en nation

With all the attention that’s rightfully been elsewhere in Canadian politics, less attention has been getting paid to the Conservative Leadership Race, beyond the random words of Peter MacKay and Erin O’Toole that come out on Twitter every now and again. But this week there was an important milestone in

The newest episode of the “Magpie Brûlé” Podcast is now up! In this episode, I talks about the week that was in the House of Commons, the latest on the Wet’suwet’en protests & how the various parties are failing to rise to this moment. Then I go into the rise

It’s late Friday afternoon and after sitting for a couple of weeks, the House of Commons is taking a weeklong break. That means that we’ve now see proximately six sitting weeks of the 43rd Parliament, give or take a day or two, which gives us a decent sample size to