Author: Peter Lowry

It was amusing reading how Pierre Poilievre side stepped any conflict with Alberta premier Danielle Smith when dealing with questions about Alberta and the Canada Pension Plan. It was pure Poilievre BS at its nastiest. He, of course, blamed the entire imbroglio on Justin Trudeau. He was true to Alberta

The other day, a friend proposed a blog on how Ontario premier Doug Ford is hoping to get even with the critics who don’t want him making his friends rich with Greenbelt land. He suggested that this is with ministerial zoning orders (MZO) and the purpose would be to jam

It was the balance that Pierre Trudeau brought to the use of language in Canada that his eldest son betrayed. In Bill C-13’s enactment by parliament in June of this year, Justin Trudeau forgot that his father had declared that the English and French languages were equal. You do not

It is obvious that the federal conservative party has more money than good sense these days. Watching their current $3 million advertising campaign, one can only think of the despair it could bring. What the advertising does not tell Canadians is the type of government Mr. Poilievre would try to

Ontario residents have come to regret the lack of education of their premier. He is obviously not the only conservative politician these days who neither knows nor understands this basic concept of democracy. “Consent of the governed” is a concept that can be dated back to the late 13th century

Canada’s federal new democrats met in Hamilton the other day. It was a weekend of glad-handing and denial. It was a weekend of conviviality and self delusion. It was renditions of “Onward Christian Soldiers” and “Solidarity Forever” by a mixture of faiths and agnostics. It left a practising Sikh at

There is no honour among those who hate. There is little honour in the Middle East. Hamas is but a tool for the hypocrites in Arab states that fulminate war in fear and hate of Israel. The Jews of Israel forget that the Semite nations of the Middle East are

It was interesting to read the other day that the Jerusalem Post believed a poll that indicated that four out of five Jewish Israelis blame prime minister Netanyahu for the armed incursion by Hamas into Israel. It also comes to mind that an honest poll in Russia would be likely

Somehow, through the years, the conservatives in Canada have taken a wrong turn. From a basic ideology of conserving the qualities of life for Canadians, the conservative leadership has taken on a vindictive stand in favour of dog-eat-dog capitalism. Truth has suffered, and there is no excuse for it. To

Former new democratic leader Ed Broadbent was talking on the CBC recently about the current liberal-new democratic supply and confidence agreement in Ottawa. He thinks this agreement should have been shorter. Not to just be contrary, I think it should have been for much longer. It comes down to the

Only the Ontario liberals could fail to look ahead. They decided to have a leadership contest, so leisurely, it is putting the party to sleep. They need to wake up and understand the provincial political situation. Instead of having the time for this wrongly planned leadership, the party could still

One of the tasks, the federal government leaves to the provinces is waste management. It is a task that nobody worried about very much back at the time of confederation. One thing you can say about waste management, it gets to be a bigger problem every day. In Alberta, the

In seniors, frailty is a set of symptoms pertaining to the approaching end of life. In politics, it is the weaknesses other politicians will recognize as the key to defeating a politician at the polls. Premier Doug Ford in Ontario has all the symptoms. It does not guarantee that he

Canadians must be embarrassed by the arithmetic we are hearing out of the premier’s office in Edmonton. Nobody would expect the premier to be a world class mathematician but for her to make such a fuss and make such a fool of herself is to be unfair to the sensible

Who would be so rude as to sit around a delicious turkey dinner discussing the price of the bird? Nor should we assume that there will be much discussion of politics at this time of family gatherings. There is the possibility that the recent success of the new democrats in

If you ever want to teach a class of neophyte politicians how to raise the funds they will need, you should start with lectures by municipal politicians. This is where basic fund-raising begins. It is also why I have always been a proponent of funding politics through the Canada Revenue

Since they could afford to fly, there are no trucks parked on Wellington Street in Ottawa this week. This convoy from the west is made up of senior executives from the Alberta oil industry as well as entrepreneurs and other Alberta industry leaders. We are told, they come in peace.

It is not that we have been ignoring what is going on with the Americans. We just keep hoping it will heal itself. Past President Trump is under indictment and on trial in a few states and it seems that he sees no problem to continue running to be president

Listening to the candidates for the leadership of the liberal party is not doing much to promote liberalism. You get the impression that Ted Hsu MPP is the only one enthusiastic for a liberal government in Ontario. Bonnie Crombie might be the front-runner yet her ‘Big Tent’ approach might be

The other day, we addressed the severity of the military budget cuts. The bad news is that there are more cuts to come in other departments of the federal government. It is as though Mr. Trudeau is in competition with Mr. Poilievre. He is showing the conservative leader that liberals