Insurance will not solve the Canadian Health Care Problem
Everytime, that I read a conservative criticism of the Canadian Health Care System, I am brought back to one of a variety of economics classes. Those classes all described the…
Canadian Politics
No Dog in That Fight, But I Still Care About the Results
As a Canadian, I can only watch US politics from afar, albeit with unease. My comments on events and issues there are those from an armchair observer who has no…
The UK election will truly effect Alberta
The UK is going to look a lot more like Scandavia by 2030. If you look at the parties in the new Parliament, most of their platforms said the same…
This Epidemic Is Widespread And Growing
On this blog I have never made a secret of my disdain for those who are willfully ignorant and mindlessly led. To allow someone else to do our thinking for…
‘Tubby’ Black, palaverous peer who forfeited Canadian citizenship for plush seat in House of Lords, booted by that chamber
Recently Mr. Black has been heard to muse that he would like to take up his lordly duties again. Too late, alas!
Calling all moderate U.K. Tories: You can’t tame the alt-right; the alt-right will tame you
My friend “Art Sifton,” the social media gadfly found at @ArtSifton, is one of the sharpest political observers I’ve ever met, and not just of Alberta politics. The night I…
Yes, Andrew, Democracy Is Under Attack In Canada
So, Andrew Coyne muses that Justin Trudeau should just step aside in the wake of a recent by-election defeat. His reasoning? Well - it's a bit of a jumble of…
Happy Canada Day! Collective bargaining worked, the WestJet strike is over, and the UCP will need a new reason to complain about Ottawa
It’s quite possible Alberta’s United Conservative Party is disappointed the strike is over.
How does Alberta ‘opt out’ of a national dental program it’s not in, doesn’t fund, doesn’t administer, and doesn’t control in any way?
Drill into Danielle Smith’s letter and you’ll see how we’re getting played again by the UCP.
Jeremy Nixon, former UCP cabinet minister, loses Calgary Signal Hill federal Conservative nomination in squeaker
Calgary lawyer David McKenzie, the winning candidate, proves again all politics are local, and that UCP endorsements may not be worth as much as some thought.
Nenshi could win over Alberta….
Over the last two days, my friends have asked me one question: can Nenshi become Premier? While it is true that the former Mayor of Calgary had a successful leadership…
Citing ‘uncertainty’ about Bill C-59’s environmental truth-in-advertising provision, Pathways Alliance pulls all content from its website
The Pathways Alliance, the coalition of the largest and most powerful companies operating in Alberta’s oilsands, pulled all content from its elaborate and colourful website yesterday in reaction to the…
What’s a little child labour among friends?
Local businesses: “we can’t find employees!” Chamber of Commerce: “how ’bout child labour?” L.Bs: “Do we have to pay, like, benefits and shit?” CoC: “Not if you only give them…
Why capture carbon when it’s so much easier to capture a government?
As they would certainly agree in the C-suites of Calgary, why bother trying to capture carbon when you can capture a government? A Pathways Alliance banded bus in Vancouver –…
Reviewing The Cass Review Report
The subtitle for this should be "How Cass Weaponized Science".Now that the Cass Review has published their final report, it is possible to look beyond the apparent issues in how…
Reviewing The Cass Review Report
The subtitle for this should be "How Cass Weaponized Science".Now that the Cass Review has published their final report, it is possible to look beyond the apparent issues in how…
Does the Alberta Legislature know that more than 12% of the buses in London, England are battery-powered?
It is easy to see the countries that have pushed towards electrification of their private car fleet. Norway is an easy stand out. By 2025, Norway will only register new…
So! It really was the anti-greenwashing provision in Ottawa’s Bill C-59 that pushed the UCP into shutting down the War Room
It’s official now: Calgary Herald political columnist Don Braid has breathlessly reported, to paraphrase the headline on the column he posted yesterday, that it was the threat of federal fines…
A 30-Year-Old Warning About Rising Fascism
Convicted felon and insurrection supporter Donald Trump claimed in a media conference after his trial that, because the justice system works, Americans are “living in a fascist state.” It’s not…
Could a federal climate change truth-in-advertising law pose a risk to the Alberta Energy War Room and its directors?
When Canadian Energy Centre Ltd., better known as “the Alberta Energy War Room,” was set up by premier Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party Government soon after its election in 2019,…