WTF Canada? We Needed to do Better!
The Canadian federal election is over and the counting has finally finished. The Liberals under Mark Carney got 168 seats, four short of a majority. That’s disappointing because it weakens…
Canadian Politics
Naheed Nenshi, relaxed and confident, rips into Danielle Smith’s flirtation with Alberta separatism
Looking relaxed and confident, Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi ripped into Premier Danielle Smith’s flirtation with separatism yesterday at the Opposition party’s annual convention. “Alberta’s New Democrats will always, always,…
Mark Carney shows grace and calculation with decision to call quick by-election for Pierre Poilievre
Prime Minister Mark Carney showed both grace and calculation in his decision to call a by-election as soon as possible so that Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, deprived of his seat…
Danielle Smith tries to turn up the heat on Ottawa while MAGA Canada suffers mass psychotic breakdown on X
Unsure whom to blame for Monday’s federal election loss by Pierre Poilievre and his Trumpified Conservative Party of Canada, the online Canadian MAGAsphere seemed headed for a full meltdown, klaxons…
The ‘strategic voting’ election and its undemocratic consequences
Photo by D’Arcy Norman/Wikimedia Commons There are so many headline takeaways from the 2025 federal election: the loss of what had appeared to be a sure-fire Conservative victory, ...
Jagmeet Singh’s federal NDP has just suffered a catastrophe; let’s talk about Naheed Nenshi’s Alberta New Democrats
Happy May Day, the day of the worker just about everywhere in the world except North America. Once upon a time, Canadians used to think of the New Democratic Party…
greetings from st. louis (day 1, part one)
I worked on Saturday, then we had two ridiculously busy days. But whatever, we were getting ready to leave, so I was happy. A cleaner bailed at the last minute,…
Danielle Smith: The people have spoken and I refuse to acknowledge what they said!
In a spasm of Trump-like rancour in the wake of the Liberal victory in Monday’s federal election, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith doubled down yesterday on her pre-election threats to national…
Election Night 2025 hot take: There was something to disappoint almost everyone!
It’s not quite midnight here in Alberta on election night and at this hour it looks as if there’s something to disappoint almost everyone. “LIBERALS SET TO RETURN TO POWER,”…
Whatever happens in today’s election, don’t expect sunny days again any time soon
Whoever emerges as the victor in today’s federal election, don’t expect many sunny days in the aftermath. Been there, done that. It was 2015 and it didn’t work out quite…
With the federal election tomorrow, don’t expect Danielle Smith to surface today
With the federal election tomorrow – either nail-bitingly close, or not, depending on which pollster’s analysis you’ve just finished reading – what do you want to bet Alberta Premier Danielle…
the residential school denier who won’t face voters — and the party that stands by him
Aaron Gunn, the Conservative candidate for North Island-Powell River (my riding), is a bigot and a residential school denier. Pierre Poilievre stands by him, denying the denialism, claiming that the…
Peter Guthrie, booted from UCP Caucus, assails Premier Danielle Smith in open letter, vows to hold government to account
Peter Guthrie, the former United Conservative Party cabinet minister now sitting as an independent member of the Alberta Legislature, fired back at Premier Danielle Smith yesterday in an open letter…
A leftist’s guide to strategic voting
Photo by A Disappearing Act/Flickr The federal election debates are over, and one narrative is emerging among leading polling aggregators and pundits: Mark Carney...
Charlie Angus brings the Resistance to Edmonton, rips into Trump, Poilievre, Smith, Moe, Manning and Maple MAGA
Charlie Angus may be retiring from federal politics, but there’s nothing retiring about the veteran New Democrat MP for Timmins-James Bay who showed up in Edmonton Sunday afternoon on the…
Don’t talk to auditor general about dodgy contracts until you’ve talked to our lawyer: government email to AHS staff
In early February, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith publicly urged Alberta’s auditor general to get cracking with his just-started investigation into allegations of dodgy contracts being forced on Alberta Health Services…
Want an explanation for the UCP’s health care shell game? Follow the money
There was another big health care announcement by the Alberta Government yesterday, the second in as many days, this one about the further deconstruction of Alberta Health Services and the…
Danielle Smith’s ‘patient-focused’ funding scheme means hospitals will need to game the system
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith claimed yesterday a new “patient-focused funding model” planned for Alberta hospitals “will increase transparency, lower wait times and attract more surgeons – helping deliver better health…
What you said on social media will probably haunt you forever: so maybe you should forget about running for Parliament!
If vetting federal political candidates was as strict in 2004 as it needs to be today, would Pierre Poilievre have made the cut as a candidate? I wonder. Since candidate…
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature to rename Canada geese American geese
The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature will rename Canada geese as American geese with the publication of the next edition of its widely respected list of scientific animal names. The…