“Countries investing in cities are winning.” Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson joins Dave Cournoyer on the Daveberta Podcast to talk about being a big city mayor during the COVID-19 global pandemic,…
A supporter of Bolivian President Evo Morales outside the presidential palace in La Paz, Bolivia, after a first round presidential election, Sunday, October 20, 2019. Photo by Juan Karita. The…
Pierre Poilievre and Erin O'Toole must have thought they had Justin Trudeau where where they wanted him, judging by the way their feathers were flying. They had drafted a grotesque…
It remains clear that the victim of Scott Moe’s careless driving isn’t about to give up on finding out what happened – even if the local media continues to operate…
Over 40,000 voters went to the polls in the first day of advance voting. But particularly for the many people who haven’t yet cast a ballot, here’s the latest from…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – The Globe and Mail’s editorial board argues that the Libs should be putting their energy toward dealing with COVID-19, not setting up…
Justin Trudeau’s government survived yesterday. But the Conservatives are already serving up another motion. Susan Delacourt writes: The first wave of COVID-19 may have bridged some differences between the parties…
US President Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a “Keep America Great” rally at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Arizona, February 19, 2020. Photo by Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons.…
You have to hand it to Ontario premier Doug Ford. He rarely gets much right. He just knows what he hates about municipal politics—anything that the downtown Toronto councillors like.…
It is easy to conclude why Premier John Horgan ignored BC’s established pattern of general elections every four years. The BC NDP was riding high in the polls but a…
A recommendation by Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s handpicked curriculum advisors to strip all mention of residential schools from the province’s Kindergarten-to-Grade 4 curriculum “will perpetuate systemic racism through whitewashing,” says…
Corporate drug lords get a slap on the wrist. Friends of Kenney rewrite grade school curriculums.
I can’t do anything or say anything about anything whatsoever because I need to focus on the pandemic. I thank you for respecting my privacy and not asking me any…
During the NDP’s brief sojourn as government of Alberta, it pursued a policy oft-referred to as “social license.” The idea was that if the province was to get investment in…
Women’s Liberation group marches in support of the Black Panther Party, New Haven, 1969. Photo by David Fenton. People whose names we will never know propelled liberatory struggles of the…
All of Canadian politics has spent the past 48 hours spinning, twirling and losing its collective mind over the potential of a snap general election during the start of the…
The news that Jason Kenney’s UCP has approved a resolution demanding privatized health care – coupled with Kenney’s refusal to reject the concept – has been rightly recognized as a…
Saskatchewan: A Long Term Shift to the Right?There will be provincial elections held imminently in two western provinces, British Columbia on Saturday October 24, followed by Saskatchewan on Monday October…
Saskatchewan: A Long Term Shift to the Right?There will be provincial elections held imminently in two western provinces, British Columbia on Saturday October 24, followed by Saskatchewan on Monday October…
Saskatchewan: A Long Term Shift to the Right? There will be provincial elections held imminently in two western provinces, British Columbia on Saturday October 24, followed by Saskatchewan on Monday…
