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“Everything Trump touches dies.” That’s the phrase coined by Rick Wilson, the former Republican strategist turned anti-Trump activist and Lincoln...
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“Everything Trump touches dies.” That’s the phrase coined by Rick Wilson, the former Republican strategist turned anti-Trump activist and Lincoln...
Donald Trump isn’t joking about annexing Canada. That’s the message that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shared with a group of...
The Carney bounce is real. After polls by EKOS and Mainstreet showed a surprising surge in Liberal fortunes, the Angus...
The race to replace Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader and Canada’s prime minister won’t officially conclude until March 9. Based...
As an annoyingly stubborn optimist, I try to find the good in even the worst situations. And so, as new...
So much for that reprieve. The pro-appeasement Postmedia pundits and Conservative politicians in Canada hadn’t even completed their victory lap...
History may often rhyme, but it gets downright poetic when it comes to the Trudeaus and Alberta’s oil and gas...
Petroleum over country. For Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, that appears to be the guiding philosophy behind her unscheduled visit to...
Christy Clark almost certainly won’t win the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada, but at least she’s already made...
If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, Justin Trudeau has laid down more than his share of...
When Justin Trudeau took over as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada in 2013, his job was to...
“The greatest happiness,” Genghis Khan famously said, “is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you, to see his...
Chrystia Freeland has only just begun to fight. That’s one of the many possible conclusions you can draw from her...
For all the money and privilege he was handed by his parents, Donald Trump’s most valuable inheritance might be his...
Justin Trudeau’s Liberals haven’t technically lost the next election yet. But in the broader battle of ideas, it sure looks...
Donald Trump’s return to the White House will transform any number of issues here in Canada, from trade and energy...
This was not the election result that most Canadians hoped for. According to a Leger poll taken in late October...
For most Canadians, Remembrance Day is a moment to reflect on the sacrifices of the past and how they helped...
As I write this, America is in the process of deciding who will be its next president. By the time...
Like most governments that are long in the tooth and low in the polls, there aren’t many issues left that...
Live by the youth vote, die by the youth vote. That’s been the story of Justin Trudeau’s nine years in...
With just a week to go until the United States election and the polls somehow deadlocked between Kamala Harris and...
Canada officially has an immigration problem. No, it’s not the one we’ve been hearing about for months now, which the...
Brent Chapman, the BC Conservative candidate for the riding of Surrey South, once wrote that Palestinians were “inbred walking, talking...
Who are you going to trust: the Government of Alberta or your lying eyes? That was essentially the message coming...
Sometimes, it’s what you don’t say about something that tells the real story. That seems to be the case with...
Could more urgent climate coverage save the CBC from a Pierre Poilievre government? That’s the theory that was floated by...
Can Conservative thinkers convince Pierre Poilievre to take climate change seriously? That’s the question that centre-right website The Hub, with...
Chip Wilson might be a billionaire, but he can’t buy himself a clue when it comes to politics. It’s not...
If you ran an oil and gas company into the ground while also helping dump hundreds of millions of dollars...
Live by the conspiracy theory, die by the conspiracy theory. That seems to be Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s guiding principle...
You can’t really blame Mark Carney for not taking the plunge into partisan politics just yet. The former Governor of...
The rise and spread of electric vehicles is one of the biggest stories of our century, and it’s still unfolding...
John Rustad was in the midst of a political comeback for the ages, one that saw him kicked out of...
This is apparently how the carbon tax ends in Canada: not with a bang but a surrender. Last week, B.C...
When Jagmeet Singh was selected by NDP members to replace Thomas Mulcair in 2017, it looked like they had found...
For as long as it’s been in conflict with America and its democratic allies, Russia has tried to defeat them...
When Pierre Trudeau decided it was time to leave back in 1984, he took a walk in the snow. At...
He finally did it. After months of speculation about the fate of the confidence and supply agreement that bound his...
When former Alberta premier Jason Kenney first introduced the idea of an oil and gas “war room,” it was supposed...
At some point, even for the toughest of cookies, enough is enough. After years of enduring threats, harassment, and even...
Pierre Poilievre isn’t exactly known for holding his tongue, least of all when it’s on an issue that could hurt...
When Kevin Falcon took over as the leader of the BC Liberal Party, he clearly wanted to put some distance...
Once again, the Conservative Party of Canada is trying to bait Mark Carney into entering the political fray. After passing...
In Alberta, depending on which conservative politician you ask, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is everything from an authoritarian tyrant to...
He just can’t help himself. With a double-digit lead in the polls and the governing Liberals clearly on the ropes...
So close and yet so far. That was the story in the 2015 federal election for the NDP, who spent...
Of all the lies she’s told in her political career, Danielle Smith’s latest might be the biggest yet. After insisting...
Most politicians would treat a 20-point lead in the polls as an opportunity to step back and let their opponent...
In its perpetual sea of political blue, Alberta’s two biggest cities stand out as islands of progressive resistance. In the...
Sometimes, it’s best to know when to shut up. I say this with some measure of recent experience, not to...
Young Canadians can be forgiven for being a bit confused by the latest federal budget. For the first time in...
As part of its weeks-long pre-budget rollout, the Liberal government has sent Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland out to announce a...
“Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make.” That’s the famous line said by...
Pierre Poilievre and the provincial premiers are spoiling for yet another fight over the carbon tax — this time in...
There’s fierce competition in the unofficial race for Canada’s most dangerous premier, with Alberta’s Danielle Smith deliberately destabilizing her province’s...
Canadian progressives are slowly coming to terms with the idea, or perhaps even the inevitability, of a Pierre Poilievre Conservative...
There’s a growing irony in the carbon tax increase falling on April Fools’ Day every year, since it now offers...
Canada’s renters are finally getting their moment in the political sun. After a lifetime of being studiously ignored by most...
Pierre Poilievre’s pledge to get rid of housing “gatekeepers” was a nifty piece of political strategy that helped expand his...
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