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In its perpetual sea of political blue, Alberta’s two biggest cities stand out as islands of progressive resistance. In the 2021 municipal...
Sometimes, it’s best to know when to shut up. I say this with some measure of recent experience, not to mention a lifetime of saying things that...
Young Canadians can be forgiven for being a bit confused by the latest federal budget. For the first time in their lives, they’re looking at a...
As part of its weeks-long pre-budget rollout, the Liberal government has sent Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland out to announce a host of new...
“Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make.” That’s the famous line said by Lord Farquaad in the Shrek movie that’s...
For Pierre Poilievre and his provincial allies, it’s all carbon tax, all the time. Never mind that his latest attempt at filibustering the April 1...
If at first, you don’t succeed in overthrowing the government, try, try again. That appears to be the thinking behind the carbon tax protests that...
There’s fierce competition in the unofficial race for Canada’s most dangerous premier, with Alberta’s Danielle Smith deliberately destabilizing...
Canadian progressives are slowly coming to terms with the idea, or perhaps even the inevitability, of a Pierre Poilievre Conservative government. As...
There’s a growing irony in the carbon tax increase falling on April Fools’ Day every year, since it now offers an annual reminder of just what a...
Canada’s renters are finally getting their moment in the political sun. After a lifetime of being studiously ignored by most elected officials in...
Are young Canadians on the verge of rising up against the government over a declining standard of living? If you read a recent column by the National...
Pierre Poilievre’s pledge to get rid of housing “gatekeepers” was a nifty piece of political strategy that helped expand his appeal among...
For as long as he’s been the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Pierre Poilievre has had the political winds at his back. Inflation, which...
How did the Trudeau government’s signature climate policy turn into a political albatross? As Ernest Hemingway might say: gradually, then suddenly....
It’s not easy to be hopeful about politics right now. Whether it’s the return of Trumpism in the United States, the increasingly polarized...
It started as a race to replace Rachel Notley as the leader of the Alberta NDP. Now, with former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi’s official entry,...
With a double-digit lead in the polls and projections of a massive (and possibly historic) majority in the next election, the Conservative Party of...
It’s been nearly two years since the Pathways Alliance, a consortium of Canada’s major oilsands companies, was created with the express purpose of...
For the first time in recorded memory, Pierre Poilievre is holding his tongue. Despite being roundly mocked for his embrace of cryptocurrencies like...
Credit where it’s due: Pierre Poilievre has talked a good game about housing ever since he was elected leader of the Conservative Party of Canada....
By now, we’ve all gotten used to conservative governments saying one thing and doing another. But few have plumbed the depths of hypocrisy that...
Just over two years ago, Pierre Poilievre kicked off his campaign for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada with a video that hung his...
He might be trailing in the polls and on his way to an epic electoral defeat, but Justin Trudeau isn’t done fighting just yet. During his Wednesday...
After the City of Edmonton and its taxpayers gave him hundreds of millions of dollars to build a new arena, you might think Daryl Katz would show a...
There’s a litany of potential explanations for the disastrous drop the Trudeau Liberals have seen in their polling numbers over the last 12 months,...
Alberta’s UCP government may like to pretend it sees the world differently than Saudi Arabia but when it comes to their biggest industry, they speak...
Justin Trudeau is mad as hell and he’s not going to take it anymore. At least, that’s how he sounded when talking about BCE Inc.’s decision to...
There are dumb political hills to die on, and then there’s the one Pierre Poilievre finds himself on right now. Once again, his Conservative Party...
On Wednesday, the House of Commons voted against a motion calling for the federal government to establish a citizens' assembly to “determine if...
Danielle Smith may be the leader of a conservative party, but her core beliefs are libertarian through and through. That’s why she’s always been...
Of all Pierre Poilievre’s familiar slogans, there’s one that stands above the rest: Canada is broken. There’s no shortage of irony there, not...
It was two years ago that a convoy of truckers, conspiracy theorists, and other conservative activists gathered in Ottawa. Depending on who you asked,...
I swear, I didn’t want to write about this. Much as it may shock some of my critics, I’m a big believer in freedom of expression. If Alberta...
The COVID-19 pandemic has already killed more than 50,000 Canadians and crippled our sense of national unity and cohesion. But its biggest casualty...
The odds of a Justin Trudeau comeback seem to just keep getting longer. With a bunch of new polls leaving his Liberal party’s late-2023 bump looking...
The odds of a Justin Trudeau comeback seem to just keep getting longer. With a bunch of new polls leaving his Liberal party’s late-2023 bump looking...
Whether it’s his socks, his propensity for taking selfies or his willingness to apologize for historical wrongdoing, there are a lot of things about...
After nearly a decade as Alberta NDP leader and four years as its first non-conservative premier, Rachel Notley has decided to hang up her political...
It’s one of the oldest political maxims in the book: Never let a good crisis go to waste. Rarely has that spirit of political opportunism been more...
In his first official campaign speech of this most consequential of U.S. presidential elections, Joe Biden made the stakes perfectly clear. “This is...
Pierre Poilievre, champion of the free press? It wasn’t on my 2024 bingo sheet either, but Canada’s leader of the official Opposition tried to use...
It used to be the case that a gentle fall was a welcome blessing to most Albertans. But after a summer of wildfires, drought and other climate-related...
In his ongoing attempt to become the Jordan Peterson of elected officials, Pierre Poilievre has released another lengthy, laboured video about the...
Everything that happens in the United States eventually makes its way to Canada, whether we like it or not. It’s not surprising then, that nearly a...
He’s not dead yet, folks. After months of increasingly dire public opinion polls, Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party of Canada are finally showing...
If only Richard Nixon could go to China, then maybe only the United Arab Emirates could host a climate summit that yielded a unanimous agreement to...
As premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith has made it abundantly clear that she’s interested in reducing emissions, not oil and gas production. In what...
The CBC is facing an existential crisis unlike anything it’s ever seen. The Conservative Party of Canada, which holds a commanding lead in the polls...
Max Valiquette must love a challenge. The 50-year-old marketer and branding expert, who founded a youth-oriented market research company called...