This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We had a good conversation about the draft deal…
This weekend brought some welcomed and good news from Smithers, British Columbia. After a few days of talks and negotiations between Canada, B.C. and the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs arrived at…
In traditional conservative thought, the role of government is pretty narrowly defined; with the emphasis placed on individual liberty, government must minimize its intrusion into that liberty, providing only the…
I saw this on the weekend: In the United States, conservatives use the word “socialist” to describe everything to the left of hunting the homeless for sport. Yikes!
I’ve never taken a cruise. Never wanted to go on one. Not my thing. For almost 20 years when I did want to travel it was astride my motorcycle. Flying…
Abbas Rana’s revelation that the Cons have decided to protect all of their incumbent MPs from any internal accountability seems to have received relatively little attention. But it’s particularly worth…
Alberta is in a financial hole. And, Graham Thompson writes, the solution is obvious. It’s as obvious as the chart in this year’s provincial budget: On page 169 of the…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Fernando Arce discusses how Doug Ford’s attacks on labour create public health risks. And Amanda Mull writes about the futility of telling workers…
From left: Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, former Vice President Joe Biden, former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and…
Remember the old Blues Brothers number: Everybody wants somebody to love. I was thinking of that last week as people were wreaking havoc on hapless commuters and train travellers across…
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of March 2, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: Group of US federal judges calls emergency meeting, USA Today reports A…
Impact of Hebron flat royalty at prices below US$50click to go to 2015 post West Texas Intermediate and Brent crude were both trading below US$50 last week. Oil from the…
It will be interesting to see how the Conservative Opposition in Ottawa and Alberta’s Conservative government react to yesterday’s announcement the federal and British Columbia governments have reached an accord…
What do the Wet’suwet’en First Nations blockades have to do with Alberta’s Budget 2020? Everything. The blockades are the rationale (flimsy as it is) for Bill 1, Critical Infrastructure Defence…
North Cowichan’s launch of its much-anticipated public engagement on the future of the 5,000-hectare Municipal Forest Reserve stumbled badly out of the blocks this week, leaving citizens understandably confused and…
Former Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg I have mixed feelings about tonight’s news that Pete Buttigieg, the openly gay former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and upstart Democratic presidential candidate, is…
New Zealand children join a protest against nuclear power in 1982. Photo by John Miller/ABC News. Increasingly, activists and organizers are discussing the question, “What’s your theory of change?” For…
In Canada, Conservatives extol the United States as a land of virtually limitless opportunity and prosperity. Not so much. Business Insider shows how deeply America’s middle class is being hollowed…
There’s more to this virus than health problems. As the New York Times explains, Covid-19 could easily become a global economy wrecker. The globalism spawned by the neoliberal order has…
