It sure sounds as if Alberta Premier Rachel Notley will announce an affordable child-care plan for Alberta today. At any rate, at a rally in downtown Edmonton’s Polish Hall yesterday…
Alberta’s provincial election has been called and Albertans will be going to the polls on April 16. For the duration of the campaign, we’re going to be recording a new…
Is there a limitation period after which we can safely disregard a politician’s scary comments? In 2000 Jason Kenney, then a 32 year old federal MP, gave a disturbing speech*…
I finished reading this fine biography a while ago, but I’ve been having trouble writing about it. It was very good. If some parts were a bit too detailed for…
Working on Parliament Hill is a unique experience and it’s an environment that’s very hard to compare to other work places at times. This is especially true if you work…
The people celebrating Barr’s “exoneration” of Trump are the same people who were outraged about Lametti’s “exoneration” of Trudeau. #cdnpoli #uspolitics #LavScam — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 24, 2019
The way of the world in recent and present time is the preach and the practice of neoliberalism, of pushing markets to their extremes. The Turkish writer and political analyst…
This past Wednesday, a memorial was held for victims of the Christchurch mosque tragedy during an anti-racism rally that took place in Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto. Aside from hate…
In the end, the “Alberta Advantage” was dependence. And in retrospect, undoing that dependence on the oil industry — a mixture of real and perceived — needed to be the…
US attorney general, William Barr, won’t win any fans with this one. U.S. Attorney General William Barr has released a summary of Robert Mueller‘s long-awaited report into Donald Trump‘s 2016…
I was sure that one of the downsides of moving to a small town in a relatively remote area would be a serious lack of food choices. I’ve been very…
Finally, after weeks of a pre-election posturing, the real posturing has begun. Here in the People’s Republic of Alberta, Rachael Notley recalled the legislature, had the Lt. Gov. read a…
Millennials and Gen-Xers are fond of blaming the Boomer generation for their woes. Cheap talk from people who vote for parties that keep the Canadian petro-state locked into fossil fuels.…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Michael Mikulewicz and Tahseen Jafry discuss the responsibility wealthy countries bear for increasingly severe weather events – as well as the best…
These days, Canadians and Brits are being treated to lessons in caucus management. Robin Sears writes: This government is still fighting a controversy that has cost them two ministers, an…
Anyone ready for an incoherent rant? Drip drip drip. The level of toxicity on social media right now regarding Canadian politics is at a level I never would have imagined.…
I think it’s about time PMO started chasing a DPA for itself, don’t you? #LavScam #cdnpoli #lpc #cpc #ndp — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 24, 2019
