“Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it. Canadians make no connection between the fact that they are a…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: The Canadian War on Science: A long, unexaggerated, devastating chronological indictment Police drove Rob Ford home, didn’t charge him…
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interréd with their bones;So let it be with Caesar. The…
It has been, in the estimation of most people, an almost unbearably long campaign; its eleven weeks’ duration likely tested the mettle of the most ardent of political junkies. Yet…
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It still seems hard to believe. Hard to believe that today is the day we will finally get a chance to take down the Con monster Stephen Harper.And take back…
OK Canada, you win. Keep your outdated voting system. Continue to outsource the nation’s governance function to one person and his inner circle. Carry on with this democratic farce called…
OK Canada, you win. Keep your outdated voting system. Continue to outsource the nation's governance function to one person and his inner circle. Carry on with this democratic farce called…
OK Canada, you win. Keep your outdated voting system. Continue to outsource the nation’s governance function to one person and his inner circle. Carry on with this democratic farce called…
This is Craig Westcott’s editorial from The Pearl newspaper, reproduced with permission.. This is a tough column to write. Taking an editorial position in favour of one candidate over another…
Two polls taken during the recent campaign showed Scott Andrews was losing in his old seat in Avalon. Decided and leanings Mainstreet (September) MQO/NTV (October) Liberal 43 (37) 31 NDP…
Hi Ellie, good to get your email. It’s been ages! I’m so glad to hear all your good news. The promotion sounds fantastic, and Guy must really adore you to…
Hi Ellie, good to get your email. It’s been ages! I’m so glad to hear all your good news. The promotion sounds fantastic, and Guy must really adore you to…
This week’s Hill times column, below. Now go vote! And so it ends, with a whimper and not a bang. Well, sort of. The whimpers are emanating from us, the…
PHOTOS: Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s tactics have sparked protests, but Conservatives who should know better have been astonishingly quiet. (CommonDreams.org photo.) Below: Former St. Albert MLA Mary O’Neill, Independent MP…
While Canadians could be on track to elect the country’s first Liberal Party government since 2004, it looks like Albertans could remain firmly in the Conservative Party camp, even after…
We highly personalize politics now and many will attribute a Liberal government, most likely a minority, to Justin Trudeau. However, his leadership numbers, while they have gone up substantially over…
We highly personalize politics now and many will attribute a Liberal government, most likely a minority, to Justin Trudeau. However, his leadership numbers, while they have gone up substantially over…
We highly personalize politics now and many will attribute a Liberal government, most likely a minority, to Justin Trudeau. However, his leadership numbers, while they have gone up substantially over…
With opinion polls and the corporate media already declaring Justin Trudeau the winner of the 2015 federal election, the late Jack Layton would tell Thomas Mulcair and the New Democrats:…
