daveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Who is driving the conservative agenda in Canada?

TweetIn America’s Forbes Magazine this week, Alejandro Chafuen praised the leadership of the conservative policy think-tanks that helped set the stage for the election of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative majority government in 2011 and the success of conservative politicians across the country. This apparatus of conservative special interest groups, think-tanks and news

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Northern Reflections: The New Solitudes

Gerry Nicholls writes that there are two Canadas. Not the two solitudes Hugh Maclennan described seventy years ago — although reaction in Quebec to the recently passed omnibus crime bill suggests that we may revisit history. The New Solitudes — according to Nicholls — are best described as Political Junkie

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