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With a speed that lightning metaphors would insult, your National Post’s comment section has already published a couple of items about Wednesday’s shock defection to the Liberals of Sarnia MP Marilyn Gladu, who had been re-elected to the House of Commons as a Conservative less than a year ago. These pieces establish that Gladu was one of the most radical...
The Parti Québécois leader was in Calgary recently to make friends with western secessionists. Is he building out-of-province support?
I’ve been reading various election post-mortems this weekend, or catching up on them, having sensed that I ought to try to understand the federal Conservative arguments over whether to keep Pierre Poilievre as leader or dump him. This is probably harder than usual from an Alberta vantage point. The election was (foreseeably) decided in Ontario, and whenever I manage to...
Trump’s latest blathering is just a plain statement of likely fact: only American territory will enjoy the protection of Star Wars II by right
He's the King's first minister, which means he has no business making Trumpian executive-order signing performances
I’m not sure, as an Albertan, that the biggest Alberta political news of the week isn’t the official secession of the Alberta New Democratic Party from the national NDP. Last weekend members of the NDP-A voted at a general assembly to allow for separate provincial memberships in the party: no longer will the NDP be one and indivisible. It seems...
Yesterday, Fox News columnist David Marcus published a short piece about the surprises that greeted him on a weekend visit to Calgary. The theme of the piece is: hey, these people are really angry about Trump’s trade war! Marcus half-expected Canada to be preoccupied with the Liberal Party leadership race and the imminent choice of a new prime minister —...
I expect the prime minister to step aside sometime in January when the failure of this transparent, cynical manoeuvre becomes apparent. It’s a pretty good rule of thumb that bribes to voters work, which is why Canadian governments occasionally decide — as the federal Liberals did last week — to randomly start firing cheques out the door to enhance their...
Whirl with me back in time all the way to September 2023, when the federal and Quebec governments announced that they would be partnering with Swedish battery maker Northvolt to plunge headlong into the bright green future. Canada and Quebec would be laying out about $2.7 billion in capital, and more in downstream subsidies, to facilitate the construction of a...
I continue to be weirded out by the unfamiliar, almost uncanny nature of what I think we can call Canada’s immigration crisis — i.e., the apparent effects on labour markets, housing, services and infrastructure of an ill-managed and virtually unprecedented deluge of humanity. (And, no, I don’t think the super-immigration of the homesteading era qualifies as a precedent.) What’s unfamiliar...
They say journalism is the first draft of history, but this is surely doubly true of CTV’s Question Period, which remains a flagship among Sunday current-affairs shows. This weekend, Jody Thomas appeared on the show on her very last day as the federal national security and intelligence advisor (NSIA). Thomas had received a metaphorical black eye on Tuesday when a...
My colleague Michael Higgins has an excellent column in Friday’s Post about incoming Manitoba premier Wab Kinew and the remarkable victory speech he gave late Tuesday after his New Democrats won the provincial election. Kinew tackled the usual priorities of the moment, giving love to his own partisans and talking about how his party’s victory means a brighter future for...
