Pierre Poilievre vs Pierre Poilievre
Pierre Poilievre has been witness to a lot of change over the 21 years he’s served as a member of...
Max Fawcett
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Danielle Smith is Mark Carney's secret weapon
It was supposed to be a cakewalk. Instead, as Pierre Poilievre kicks off the election campaign that was supposed to...
Naheed Nenshi needs to get his elbows up
Naheed Nenshi isn’t used to asking for the spotlight. The Alberta NDP leader's unique brand of politics — politics in...
Pierre Poilievre can't escape Donald Trump
Pierre Poilievre knows he has a Donald Trump problem. After spending the last two-plus years imitating Trump’s approach to politics...
Conservatives just can’t quit the carbon tax
After years of promising to axe the carbon tax, Conservatives watched in obvious horror as Prime Minister Mark Carney did...
Pierre Poilievre might have punched himself out
The legendary 1974 heavyweight fight between an aging Muhammad Ali and the unbeaten (and seemingly unbeatable) world champion George Foreman...
Danielle Smith is auditioning for Team America
By now, most politicians understand that the best way to deal with Donald Trump and his reckless pronouncements and policies...
Carney must go for the jugular
On Sunday, the sprint to replace Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader will hit the finish line. If Mark Carney wins...
Conservative leaders are failing Trump's tariff test
“Elbows up.” That was the message Mike Myers sent to fellow Canadians at the end of last weekend’s Saturday Night...
The 'freedom convoy' never really loved Canada
Canada, as it turns out, isn’t broken. That was the message coming out of Pierre Poilievre’s big rebrand rally, where...
Danielle Smith and pipelines could save Canada. No, really
Even Danielle Smith should be getting the memo by now. After she and Canada’s other premiers traveled to Washington to...
Poilievre is losing ground thanks to the Trump effect
“Everything Trump touches dies.” That’s the phrase coined by Rick Wilson, the former Republican strategist turned anti-Trump activist and Lincoln...
Mark Carney was made for this moment
Donald Trump isn’t joking about annexing Canada. That’s the message that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shared with a group of...
Jagmeet Singh's NDP is in deep trouble
The Carney bounce is real. After polls by EKOS and Mainstreet showed a surprising surge in Liberal fortunes, the Angus...
Mark Carney has Canada’s Conservatives running scared
The race to replace Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader and Canada’s prime minister won’t officially conclude until March 9. Based...
Donald Trump might just make Canada great again
As an annoyingly stubborn optimist, I try to find the good in even the worst situations. And so, as new...
Danielle Smith still wants us to surrender
So much for that reprieve. The pro-appeasement Postmedia pundits and Conservative politicians in Canada hadn’t even completed their victory lap...
Canada’s Conservatives want their own National Energy Program
History may often rhyme, but it gets downright poetic when it comes to the Trudeaus and Alberta’s oil and gas...
Danielle Smith puts petroleum over country
Petroleum over country. For Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, that appears to be the guiding philosophy behind her unscheduled visit to...
Christy Clark crashes and burns
Christy Clark almost certainly won’t win the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada, but at least she’s already made...
How Justin Trudeau lost Canada
If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, Justin Trudeau has laid down more than his share of...
Life after Justin Trudeau for the Liberal Party of Canada
When Justin Trudeau took over as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada in 2013, his job was to...
Pierre Poilievre is setting himself up to fail
“The greatest happiness,” Genghis Khan famously said, “is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you, to see his...
Chrystia Freeland just changed the game
Chrystia Freeland has only just begun to fight. That’s one of the many possible conclusions you can draw from her...
Canada's Conservatives can't wait to surrender to Trump
For all the money and privilege he was handed by his parents, Donald Trump’s most valuable inheritance might be his...
The Trudeau Liberals are officially out of ideas
Justin Trudeau’s Liberals haven’t technically lost the next election yet. But in the broader battle of ideas, it sure looks...
Saving the CBC is really about saving Canada
Donald Trump’s return to the White House will transform any number of issues here in Canada, from trade and energy...
Alberta oil is about to get Trumped
This was not the election result that most Canadians hoped for. According to a Leger poll taken in late October...
No, Pierre Poilievre isn’t Donald Trump. But he sure acts like him sometimes
For most Canadians, Remembrance Day is a moment to reflect on the sacrifices of the past and how they helped...
There’s no win for Canada in this US election
As I write this, America is in the process of deciding who will be its next president. By the time...
The oil and gas emissions cap might be Trudeau's last chance
Like most governments that are long in the tooth and low in the polls, there aren’t many issues left that...
The Liberals can win back young voters with this one simple trick
Live by the youth vote, die by the youth vote. That’s been the story of Justin Trudeau’s nine years in...
B.C. election truthers are a bad sign for democracy
With just a week to go until the United States election and the polls somehow deadlocked between Kamala Harris and...
Canada’s immigration crisis has only just begun
Canada officially has an immigration problem. No, it’s not the one we’ve been hearing about for months now, which the...
John Rustad just taught progressives an important lesson
Brent Chapman, the BC Conservative candidate for the riding of Surrey South, once wrote that Palestinians were “inbred walking, talking...
Alberta's emissions cap math doesn't add up
Who are you going to trust: the Government of Alberta or your lying eyes? That was essentially the message coming...
Pierre Poilievre's silence on India keeps getting louder
Sometimes, it’s what you don’t say about something that tells the real story. That seems to be the case with...
Climate alarmism won’t save the CBC
Could more urgent climate coverage save the CBC from a Pierre Poilievre government? That’s the theory that was floated by...
Climate-concerned Conservatives need to stop kidding themselves
Can Conservative thinkers convince Pierre Poilievre to take climate change seriously? That’s the question that centre-right website The Hub, with...
No Chip Wilson: David Eby and Justin Trudeau are not communists
Chip Wilson might be a billionaire, but he can’t buy himself a clue when it comes to politics. It’s not...
With business leaders like these, who needs enemies?
If you ran an oil and gas company into the ground while also helping dump hundreds of millions of dollars...
Danielle Smith’s supporters can’t handle the truth
Live by the conspiracy theory, die by the conspiracy theory. That seems to be Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s guiding principle...
Mark Carney is a litmus test
You can’t really blame Mark Carney for not taking the plunge into partisan politics just yet. The former Governor of...
The EV skeptics are running out of gas
The rise and spread of electric vehicles is one of the biggest stories of our century, and it’s still unfolding...
John Rustad wants to dump gasoline on BC's housing fire
John Rustad was in the midst of a political comeback for the ages, one that saw him kicked out of...
When it comes to the carbon tax, the truth never stood a chance
This is apparently how the carbon tax ends in Canada: not with a bang but a surrender. Last week, B.C...
Jagmeet Singh and Pierre Poilievre are dancing to the same tune
When Jagmeet Singh was selected by NDP members to replace Thomas Mulcair in 2017, it looked like they had found...
Russia’s useful idiots are out in force here at home
For as long as it’s been in conflict with America and its democratic allies, Russia has tried to defeat them...
It's time, Justin
When Pierre Trudeau decided it was time to leave back in 1984, he took a walk in the snow. At...
Jagmeet Singh just played himself
He finally did it. After months of speculation about the fate of the confidence and supply agreement that bound his...
Alberta's war room waves the white flag
When former Alberta premier Jason Kenney first introduced the idea of an oil and gas “war room,” it was supposed...
Our toxic politics claims its latest victim
At some point, even for the toughest of cookies, enough is enough. After years of enduring threats, harassment, and even...
Pierre Poilievre doesn’t want to talk about foreign interference
Pierre Poilievre isn’t exactly known for holding his tongue, least of all when it’s on an issue that could hurt...
Can anti-climate Conservatives actually win in BC?
When Kevin Falcon took over as the leader of the BC Liberal Party, he clearly wanted to put some distance...
Conservatives should be careful what they wish for with Carney
Once again, the Conservative Party of Canada is trying to bait Mark Carney into entering the political fray. After passing...
Danielle Smith can't win without Justin Trudeau
In Alberta, depending on which conservative politician you ask, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is everything from an authoritarian tyrant to...
The one thing Pierre Poilievre can’t change
He just can’t help himself. With a double-digit lead in the polls and the governing Liberals clearly on the ropes...
The NDP is getting outflanked — again
So close and yet so far. That was the story in the 2015 federal election for the NDP, who spent...
We need a law against lying in politics
Of all the lies she’s told in her political career, Danielle Smith’s latest might be the biggest yet. After insisting...
Pierre Poilievre is coming for your charter rights
Most politicians would treat a 20-point lead in the polls as an opportunity to step back and let their opponent...