Don’t mourn! Organize! — Joe Hill, Swedish-American union organizer Canadians still mourn the loss of Jack Layton, Joe Hill’s wise strategic counsel to social activists notwithstanding. Mr. Layton on one…
The Alberta portion of NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s election campaign got off to an upbeat start in Edmonton yesterday with an enthusiastic outdoor crowd of supporters, a substantive policy announcement,…
For heaven’s sake, Ontario, would you stop sending us your right-wing nut-jobs? There was Derek Fildebrandt. Horrible! There was Jason Kenney. Even worse! There are too many more to mention.…
The universities of Alberta, Calgary and Lethbridge announced a joint back-to-school vaccine strategy yesterday that will require everyone on campus who can’t prove they’ve been fully vaccinated to undergo rapid…
It’s an outrage, practically a crime against humanity, for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to call a federal election in the midst of a global pandemic, Alberta’s Conservatives say. The pandemic…
Hello folks: Miss me? (Don’t answer that ) Seeing as we’re about to head into a Federal Election set for Sept 20, I thought it time to shake off the…
Hello folks: Miss me? (Don’t answer that ) Seeing as we’re about to head into a Federal Election set for Sept 20, I thought it time to shake off the…
The great Tommy Douglaswas an MP for a BC riding in the 1960s. I recently learned that the BC NDP — the party I vote for, the party that currently…
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh with ONDP MPP Sol Mamakwa. Photo from Twitter. While it’s been clear for a while now that Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party have been itching…
Canada ignored the lifeline China threw us last spring, when a Chinese court adjourned the trial of Michael Spavor without a verdict. The implication at the time was clear: Let…
Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro and other United Conservative Party officials reacted with predictable belligerence yesterday to federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu’s letter chiding them for abandoning such public health…
Obviously, federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu didn’t expect to get a serious answer from Tyler Shandro, her Alberta counterpart, when she wrote the irascible minister to warn him the Kenney…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and newly appointed Governor General Mary Simon. Photo from Twitter. Only 26 percent of Canadians would be happy with an election this fall, according to a…
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. Photo courtesy the Government of Alberta/Flickr. It was weird. Here was Alberta Premier Jason Kenney in June, explaining to incredulous reporters that he has never supported…
With election fever running high throughout the land, Unifor’s new third-party political advertisement started showing up on social media yesterday and it was too good not to share in the…
We certainly do live in strange times, eh? H/t Theo Moudakis Recommend this Post
Responding to the revelation last week that the founder and president of the so-called Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms hired a private eye to follow the chief justice of the…
Green Party leader Annamie Paul speaks during a news conference in Ottawa. Photo courtesy Green Party of Canada. The National Post declined to publish the following rebuttal by author Kim…
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has dropped his plans for referendums on taking over the Canada Pension Plan and replacing the RCMP with an easier-to-control provincial police force. For now. Finance…
On the morning of Jan. 14, a day after an Edmonton researcher revealed Lesser Slave Lake MLA Pat Rehn had spent almost all of April, May, June and July in…
