NDP leader Jagmeet Singh with ONDP MPP Sol Mamakwa. Photo from Twitter. While it’s been clear for a while now that Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party have been itching for a pandemic election, the official call will be coming in a matter of days. According to Reuters and other
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Alberta Politics: The door remains open a crack for Canada to act in the interests of its citizens, including the ones jailed in China
Canada ignored the lifeline China threw us last spring, when a Chinese court adjourned the trial of Michael Spavor without a verdict. The implication at the time was clear: Let Meng Wanzhou go and we’ll give Mr. Spavor and Michael Kovrig back. Meng Wanzhou (Photo: Huawei Technologies). Pleading not very
Continue readingAlberta Politics: No surprise: Alberta health minister takes the bait with belligerent response to federal minister’s rebuke
Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro and other United Conservative Party officials reacted with predictable belligerence yesterday to federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu’s letter chiding them for abandoning such public health measures as COVID-19 testing, contact tracing and mandatory isolation. In a nine-part Tweetstorm, Mr. Shandro accused the federal Liberals of
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu waves a red flag in front of her irascible Alberta counterpart, Tyler Shandro
Obviously, federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu didn’t expect to get a serious answer from Tyler Shandro, her Alberta counterpart, when she wrote the irascible minister to warn him the Kenney Government’s “unnecessary and risky gamble” to drop COVID-19 testing, contact tracing and mandatory isolation will put children at risk. In
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Is Canada’s governor general just a rubber stamp for the PM?
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and newly appointed Governor General Mary Simon. Photo from Twitter. Only 26 percent of Canadians would be happy with an election this fall, according to a recent Nanos poll. But at the end of the first week of August, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may visit Governor
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Welcome to the UCP’s Alberta, where everything is going sideways in a hurry
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. Photo courtesy the Government of Alberta/Flickr. It was weird. Here was Alberta Premier Jason Kenney in June, explaining to incredulous reporters that he has never supported a ban on Muslim women wearing niqabs. And yet, here too was Jason Kenney in May 2015 explaining to reporters
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Unifor uses Stephen Harper, Jason Kenney to target ‘the new 2021 O’Toole’
With election fever running high throughout the land, Unifor’s new third-party political advertisement started showing up on social media yesterday and it was too good not to share in the final hours of this August long weekend. It’s an attack ad that mimics the cliches of automotive advertising, and Erin
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Upper Hand
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Continue readingAlberta Politics: The Annals of Justice: Manitoba Justice Minister asks the province’s Law Society to investigate all 10 ‘Justice Centre’ lawyers
Responding to the revelation last week that the founder and president of the so-called Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms hired a private eye to follow the chief justice of the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench, supposedly to see if he broke any COVID-19 restrictions, the province’s Justice Minister has called
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Criticism of Israel—or of Green Party leader Annamie Paul—is not anti-Semitism
Green Party leader Annamie Paul speaks during a news conference in Ottawa. Photo courtesy Green Party of Canada. The National Post declined to publish the following rebuttal by author Kim Goldberg to last week’s NP Comment by former Green Party President Paul Estrin alleging “Jew-hatred” in the party. Former Green
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Confronting reality, Kenney Government puts off plans for referendums on grabbing CPP, creating provincial police force
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has dropped his plans for referendums on taking over the Canada Pension Plan and replacing the RCMP with an easier-to-control provincial police force. For now. Finance Minister Travis Toews at yesterday’s news conference (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). But these two unpopular remnants of Stephen Harper’s notorious sovereignist
Continue readingAlberta Politics: MLA Pat Rehn, cast into utter darkness by Jason Kenney last January, welcomed back to jittery UCP Caucus
On the morning of Jan. 14, a day after an Edmonton researcher revealed Lesser Slave Lake MLA Pat Rehn had spent almost all of April, May, June and July in Edmonton while constituents complained he was never seen in the riding, Premier Jason Kenney kicked the missing MLA out of
Continue readingAlberta Politics: In hot water for hiring private eye to shadow judge, social conservative litigator John Carpay exits, stage right
“Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me …”* Cock-a-doodle do! Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal (Photo: Manitoba Courts). As a matter of fact, that was almost exactly how long it took for the board of directors of
Continue readingAlberta Politics: What possessed a prominent social conservative lawyer to hire a private investigator to follow a judge around?
What were John Carpay and the so-called Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms he heads trying to achieve when they hired a private detective to snoop on the chief justice of the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench? The JCCF founder and president admitted yesterday it was his organization that hired the
Continue reading52 Ideas: Annamie Paul is not succeeding at the task of leading the Green Party
I have to be honest when Annamie Paul was first elected to be leader of the Green Party of Canada, I was intrigued. I was intrigued for a number of reasons. In my nuclear and extended family, politics has always been a thing. Accordingly, I have talked to relatives in
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The smear campaign at the centre of the Green Party debacle
Green Party leader Annamie Paul speaks with students at a press conference in late March. Photo from Facebook. Last week, Annamie Paul added a new chapter to her deception in service of Israeli colonialism and fidelity to former senior adviser Noah Zatzman. On Tuesday, July 6, the Green Party leader
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Where’s the transparency with an inactive police body camera?
Still image from a video showing Toronto Police officers pulling their firearms on rapper Twy Korchinksi Beals after he had finished shooting a music video. Screenshots via Twy Korchinksi Beals/Instagram. A short, one-minute and twenty-two second bystander video of Toronto Police with their guns drawn has gone viral on Instagram.
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The rise and fall of the Green Party
Annamie Paul with Green Party of Canada supporters during the 2019 federal election held in downtown Toronto. Photo courtesy Annamie Paul/Wikimedia Commons. The Green Party of Canada is imploding. In 2019, the Greens were a rising threat to the New Democratic Party and looked like they could even overtake it
Continue readingAlberta Politics: PM Justin Trudeau, boyish, beardless and in campaign mode, shows up to bestow $1.5B on Calgary Green Line LRT
Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, boyish and freshly beardless as if a summer election is blowin’ in the wind, showed up in Alberta yesterday to bestow $1.5 billion in federal cash on Calgary’s Green Line LRT, a mega-project unpopular with many of the well-heeled donors who support Premier Jason Kenney’s
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Something is dragging the federal Conservatives down in Alberta – is it Jason Kenney?
It sure looks as if Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s abysmal performance is not merely threatening the survival of his United Conservative Party Government, but is dragging down the federal Conservatives in Alberta as well. Alberta’s Conservatives are too strong and too entrenched even for Premier Kenney to destroy them completely.
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