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In a brazen affront to decency, the Republican Party has declared the January 6th attack on the Capitol as “legitimate political discourse.” The Republican National Committee’s voice vote to censure Representatives Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois at its winter meeting in Salt Lake City culminated more

Reliably rightwing newspaper columnists seem rattled by the ouster of former Conservative leader, Erin O’Toole. They’re suddenly worried about the extremists in the Tory ranks, perhaps fearing some sort of Tea Party takeover akin to political ebola. The latest is NatPo’s Kelly McParland. O’Toole’s margin of defeat — 73 of

  Two possible dark horses for the Conservative leadership job. This is just what I’ve heard from my favourite Tory insider, a guy who has been married to the party since the days of Bob Stanfield. Former Ontario PC leader, Patrick Brown, is drawing attention. Apparently Brown has been doing

  When it comes to playing the grievance game, Jason Kenney is up there with the best of them.  Whether it’s Justin Trudeau’s Liberals or environmentalists or non-compliant premiers in other provinces, Kenney is a past master at stoking discord and resentment. He must have been chortling as he watched

  Former Newfoundland and Labrador premier, Brian Peckford, has kept a low profile since he abandoned his North Atlantic homeland for the milder climes at the far side of the country on Vancouver Island. Peckford emerged from obscurity recently by announcing he was suing the federal government’s vaccine mandate for

Former Tory leader Erin O’Toole is, well, the newest former Tory leader.  O’Toole was given the heave-ho by the Conservative caucus.  73 MPs voted for a leadership contest. 45 backed O’Toole staying on. O’Toole won the leadership claiming to be a “True Blue” conservative — a contrast with Peter MacKay,

The National Post brought a grin to my face when it published a gallery of candidates to succeed Erin O’Toole should he be turfed today.  Poilievre, McKay, Lewis, Rempel, Chong, Kenney, Wall, Sloan and a big damn truck.

  Eight years ago the oceans entered a state of extreme heat and there’s no going back. Extreme heat in the world’s oceans passed the “point of no return” in 2014 and has become the new normal, according to research. Scientists analysed sea surface temperatures over the last 150 years,

  My jaw dropped a bit when I read, first Coyne, then Ibbitson, decry the Conservative caucus’ descent into extremism. I could be wrong. I read Coyne sometimes and Ibbitson infrequently but I don’t recall them previously lamenting the Tory slide into an extremist rabble. Per Coyne: associating the party

  Like Andrew Coyne, John Ibbitson is quaking with fear that his darling Tories are doing themselves in. By forcing a vote of confidence in his leadership, dissident Conservative MPs have put the future of the party at risk. Its activist base has become so agitated, and so powerful, that

  Andrew Coyne isn’t riding to the defence of Erin O’Toole but he says it’ll take a lot more than a new leader to fix the rot inside the Conservative Party. The party has much deeper problems than strategy and tactics – or its leader, for that matter. The problem,

  I feel deeply embarrassed for this man. No one should ever debase themselves as he is. Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole told MPs Tuesday he was open to changing his party’s policies should he survive a caucus vote on his leadership, two sources told Global News. The man is a

  The media are questioning how and when the truckers’ protest in Ottawa will end.  There is fear this will get ugly before it’s over. Enter the Riot Act.  67 A person who is (a) a justice, mayor or sheriff, or the lawful deputy of a mayor or sheriff, (b) a warden or

  It was only a matter of time before the issue of mass extinction surfaced again.  Are we already in the throes of a sixth mass extinction event? If we are, what has caused it? What can we do about it? When? A team of climate scientists from the University

Freelance columnist, Supriya Dwivedi, writes that “Canada needs a healthy Conservative party. Not whatever this is.” There are consequences to peddling misinformation and refusing to overtly condemn extremist rhetoric, as any journalist who has had to counter misinformation can tell you. So it’s especially worrying to see CPC MPs who