Self-proclaimed Interim President of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, speaks with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa. Photo by Dave Chan/AFP. Last week, Venezuelan politician Juan Guaidó was fêted in Ottawa. The…
This poor guy is the process server who was tasked with delivering @MaximeBernier’s lawsuit against me for suggesting he promotes racism. I insisted we take a picture together in the…
You win some, you lose some. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney won one yesterday with the decision of the Federal Court of Appeal to strike down a challenge by a group…
Frontman and guitarist Chris Hannah of the Winnipeg-based thrash-punk band Propaghandi during a show in Brisbane, Australia, May 29, 2011. This summer will mark 30 years since the start of…
Still image from “Jacques Cartier” (1991), part of Heritage Minutes, a collection of sixty-second short films, each illustrating an important moment in Canadian history. The Minutes integrated Canadian history, folklore…
A sticker seen in Montreal on May 20, 2019 referring to Québec’s ban on religious symbols enacted by Bill 21. Photo from Flickr. During the federal election, Bloc Québécois leader…
Justin Trudeau unveiled his full election campaign in early October, 2019, which included a new Canada Child Benefit and reduced income tax for the middle class. In the 2019 federal…
Is Justin Trudeau sad? He sure looks sad. He looks positively dejected, in fact. In his few public appearances since the election, Trudeau has radiated none of the boyish charm…
Question: What do Brexit, which finally happened on Friday but the full implications of which are yet to unfold, and Ottawa’s impending decision on the Teck Resources Ltd. Frontier oilsands…
Well, here we are in Canada with legalized marijuana. At least far fewer people are being busted. Massive corporate grows supplying expensive weed for the masses and both our federal…
On the opening of the second session of the 42nd Manitoba legislature in November, the Progressive Conservative government’s Speech from the Throne noted worrying plans to “reduce red tape for…
Former Canadian Minister of National Defence, Peter MacKay, and US Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta, left, chat informally before sitting down for a meeting in the Pentagon on Sept.…
The Trudeau government is making it a top legislative priority to ratify a trade agreement with the United States and Mexico that is under fire in the U.S. for its…
According to a well-known pollster, support for the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project has dropped in Canada outside the Prairies since this time last year. In the same time frame,…
There are those who say we should be bracing ourselves for the return of President Steve. Say it ain’t so! Stephen Harper (Photo: Remy Steinegger, Creative Commons). We can expect…
If the world is on the cusp of another deadly coronavirus outbreak, this might seem like a peculiar time to be signing up for a high-risk experiment in health care…
BC Premier John Horgan was blanketed last December at the AFN Assembly, lauded for Bill 41, which give legal effect to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous…
And I’m amazed CNN spelled “doughnut” correctly. Usually they spell it like these guys do. PS: this proves that (a) we’re lucky that this counts as a scandal, when you…
“Soon, we will find out if breaking the law is illegal.” The line is Stephen Colbert’s and, no, he wasn’t talking about Alberta. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney (Photo: David J.…
