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…
Justin Trudeau applauds during the opening ceremony of the 2017 Canada Summer Games. Photo from Flickr. It’s hard to find things to celebrate right now. Between a dangerous virus and…
Given the uproar over an article widely perceived as expressing racist sentiments by Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s speechwriter, it will be interesting to see how the Conservative Party of Canada…
Huawei booth at the Mobile World Congress 2015 Barcelona. Photo by Kārlis Dambrāns/Flickr. One of the graver risks for big-time criminals is that investigators will be able to identify them…
Members of the Lima Group meet at the G20 summit in Osaka to discuss next steps towards an “urgent and peaceful resolution” to the crisis in Venezuela. Photo from Twitter.…
I’m sorry to have to report, Alberta, that the inquiry into foreign-funded campaigns targeting Alberta’s oil and gas industry apparently hasn’t found any foreign-funded campaigns targeting Alberta’s oil and gas…
Referenda, British prime minister Margaret Thatcher once observed, “are a device for dictators and demagogues.” I mention this in light of of Alberta’s new referendum legislation — Bill 26, the…
President Maduro among other Latin American leaders participating in a 2017 ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America) gathering. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. On June 17, the Trudeau…
As Alberta launches its 10-year plan for “transformational change” in post-secondary education, a new study suggests the province’s universities and the government agencies that fund them are helping to prolong…
It was inevitable that sooner or later someone would challenge the United Conservative Party Government’s so-called Critical Infrastructure Defence Act, which appears on its face to include patently unconstitutional attacks…
Probably the last thing the Conservative Party of Canada needs right now is a side battle over allegations of dirty tricks and data theft between the campaigns of the two…
Canadian Army Cadets march in a parade. Photo from Cadets.ca. In Canada’s capital, children whose families cannot afford internet access at home camp out in their school’s parking lot to…
June 17, 2020 – Canada lost its high-profile bid for one of the rotating seats on the United Nations Security Council. A total of 128 votes were needed to secure…
Riot police at the G-20 Summit, Toronto, June 26, 2010. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. In light of ongoing police violence against Black, Indigenous and racialized people in Canada and around…
