Federal Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer speaks at an Alberta UCP convention in Red Deer, May 4, 2018. Photo from Flickr. The case can easily be made that Alberta’s United…
A Friday in August sure seemed like a peculiar time for government like Jason Kenney’s to announce it had signed onto a multi-province effort to sell natural resources and encourage…
It’s hard to believe these days, but in many nations, conservative political parties were once actually the defenders of the nation’s interests, of the greater good, of the public, and…
Now that right-wing snowflakes have officially made “cancel culture” a thing, let’s talk about that controversial coffee mug they’d like to cancel that rudely mentions Jason Kenney, shall we? Tout…
Federal Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson tapped the brakes Thursday on the Vista coal mine expansion near Hinton with an announcement Ottawa will take a look at the environmental impact of…
Having rammed through two controversial bills Tuesday night, one opening the door to more health care privatization and the other eliminating workplace fairness and declaring war on unions, the Alberta…
Once upon a time in Alberta if some foreign bank had dared to announce it wasn’t about to put money into any more Alberta oilsands projects there would have been…
You can just tell it’s likely to be a crazy week in Alberta politics. To understand just how crazy, you have to think about what the Kenney Government is noisily…
Heinrich Himmler, centre, reviews troops of the Ukrainian 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, June 3, 1944. Photo courtesy the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. From a distance, the cenotaph…
Toronto’s public transit system is the third largest in North America, after New York City and Mexico City, but it is chronically underfunded. Photo from Needpix. Toronto is Canada’s largest…
These stats here should speak for themselves why it’s the right call. I also would think twice if I were the Jays about playing in Dunedin Florida; a state with…
Yesterday we learned that Jonathan Wilkinson, the federal environment minister, is reconsidering a decision he made in December to leave it up to the industry-funded Alberta Energy Regulator to decide…
Who can forget the “Big Society”? Just about everyone, it turns out. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Photo: Justin Trudeau/Flickr). “The Big Society,” cooked up by a senior aide to former…
Canadian Armed Forces personnel serving on the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission listen as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to them in Gao, Mali, Saturday December 22, 2018. It…
When you’ve got a slippery political opponent on the ropes with a completely legitimate issue, what’s it profit a New Democrat to stand up in the Legislature and create a…
It was faintly amusing yesterday to watch the haste with which the Conservative Opposition backed away from the idea of trying to bring down the Liberal government in Ottawa over…
On June 17, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh was ordered to leave the House of Commons by the Speaker for calling Bloc Québécois MP Alain Therrien a racist and for refusing…
Happy Fourth of July. It’s Independence Day at the crazy neighbour’s place next door and the crowds are partying without masks. How the world sees Donald Trump, as a fire…
It’s a true Canada Day political mystery! What happened between 9:03 a.m. and 1:02 p.m. that dramatically changed Jason Kenney’s holiday message? Alberta Premier Jason Kenney (Photo: David J. Climenhaga).…
Happy Canada Day! Alberta is the only place in Canada, I’d wager, where someone who was barely out of diapers when our country’s national holiday was renamed Canada Day would…
