Another day, another fatuous statement from Alberta United Conservative Party attacking the Trudeau Government. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). This time the news hook for the UCP’s fatuity…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Larry Patriquin reviews Nancy Fraser’s Cannibal Capitalism, with a focus on explaining how we’ve been pushed into a system based on squeezing…
Hold it! Did Jobs, Economy and Northern Development Minister Brian Jean just purport to change an Alberta law using only a cabinet order? Along with today’s batch of Government of…
From Twitter Adrian Harewood @CBCAdrianH 23 Jan Why in 2021 is a Canadian Prime Minister, the leader of a #G7 nation, still reporting to a #Queen who doesn’t live in…
We can draw an interesting comparison between two politicians currently concerned that the long arm of the law may catch up to them upon leaving the sanctuary of the presidency.…
What a difference a year makes! Not even a year: Ten months in the life of Jason Kenney. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). Ten months ago, blockades…
Soon after Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Vancouver two years ago at the behest of U.S. authorities, Chinese state security…
Did Kevin Uebelein jump or was he, ever so gently, shoved? Albertans can be confident we’ll never, ever get a straight answer about what led to the low-key announcement the…
Bill 1 is a breathtakingly terrible piece of legislation. The bill, given first reading in the Alberta Legislature on Tuesday, is called the Critical Infrastructure Defence Act. Edmonton lawyer Simon…
Progress Alberta has been granted an emergency injunction by a judge of the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench ordering the Alberta Government to permit the news site’s representative to attend…
Finally a clear explanation-Wet’suwet’en, Aboriginal Title, and the Rule of Law By Kate Gunn & Bruce McIvor The RCMP’s enforcement of the Coastal GasLink injunction against the Wet’suwet’en has ignited…
Dear Mr. Horgan, I strongly suggest you go yourself to meet with Gitxsan and Wet’suet’en chiefs. You are the premier of this province, our highest ranking leader. Sending Scott Fraser…
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…
If we ever do form the Western Wepublic of Wexit out here in Wild Rose Country, I guess we won’t be able to join the United Nations. Too triggering. There’s…
Not everyone is a fan of democracy. Other than those who outright prefer dictatorship of one kind or another, some critics simply don’t trust all citizens having equal power over…
From the sublime to the ridiculous, it would appear, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government will do anything to keep Donald Trump sweet. Consider the dissimilar cases of Meng Wanzhou and…
After devastating testimony from his former attorney general, Justin Trudeau stood before the cameras and said the same thing his former senior advisor had said: We done nuthing wrong; no…
Here is the nub of the problem facing PM Trudeau and his advisors: his claim of huge job losses for SNC if it is convicted of criminal misdoings is based…
Tristin Hopper Finally, someone has put their finger on the crux of the matter in the rule of law crisis: that the reason chosen by the Trudeau government for pressuring…
Trying to come up with a list of the most important Alberta political news stories of 2018 is more challenging than one might imagine since the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion…
