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...
Max Fawcett
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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
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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
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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
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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...
Danielle Smith wants all the power
In its perpetual sea of political blue, Alberta’s two biggest cities stand out as islands of progressive resistance. In the...
Stop whining about your capital gains
Sometimes, it’s best to know when to shut up. I say this with some measure of recent experience, not to...
Young voters are calling the shots now
Young Canadians can be forgiven for being a bit confused by the latest federal budget. For the first time in...
We need more Canada, not less
As part of its weeks-long pre-budget rollout, the Liberal government has sent Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland out to announce a...
Danielle Smith’s latest attempt to own the libs will cost Alberta
“Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make.” That’s the famous line said by...
Justin Trudeau should say yes to a carbon tax showdown
Pierre Poilievre and the provincial premiers are spoiling for yet another fight over the carbon tax — this time in...
Doug Ford is dumbing down Ontario
There’s fierce competition in the unofficial race for Canada’s most dangerous premier, with Alberta’s Danielle Smith deliberately destabilizing her province’s...
Is it time for a Liberal-NDP merger?
Canadian progressives are slowly coming to terms with the idea, or perhaps even the inevitability, of a Pierre Poilievre Conservative...
Pierre Poilievre’s climate policy is a joke
There’s a growing irony in the carbon tax increase falling on April Fools’ Day every year, since it now offers...
Nobody really cares about renters
Canada’s renters are finally getting their moment in the political sun. After a lifetime of being studiously ignored by most...
Pierre Poilievre has a Doug Ford problem
Pierre Poilievre’s pledge to get rid of housing “gatekeepers” was a nifty piece of political strategy that helped expand his...
The carbon tax is dead. Climate policy doesn’t have to be
How did the Trudeau government’s signature climate policy turn into a political albatross? As Ernest Hemingway might say: gradually, then...
We need more Wab Kinews
It’s not easy to be hopeful about politics right now. Whether it’s the return of Trumpism in the United States...
Can Naheed Nenshi win over the NDP?
It started as a race to replace Rachel Notley as the leader of the Alberta NDP. Now, with former Calgary...
Pierre Poilievre plays politics with Paul Bernardo
With a double-digit lead in the polls and projections of a massive (and possibly historic) majority in the next election...
Oilsands companies want Pierre Poilievre to save them
It’s been nearly two years since the Pathways Alliance, a consortium of Canada’s major oilsands companies, was created with the...
Pierre Poilievre bites his tongue on Bitcoin
For the first time in recorded memory, Pierre Poilievre is holding his tongue. Despite being roundly mocked for his embrace...
Earth to millennials: Pierre Poilievre is playing you on housing
Credit where it’s due: Pierre Poilievre has talked a good game about housing ever since he was elected leader of...
Pierre Poilievre’s freedom isn’t very free
Just over two years ago, Pierre Poilievre kicked off his campaign for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada...
Truth, lies and emissions caps
He might be trailing in the polls and on his way to an epic electoral defeat, but Justin Trudeau isn’t...
Canada needs a wealth tax
After the City of Edmonton and its taxpayers gave him hundreds of millions of dollars to build a new arena...
The Trudeau Liberals need to be better at doing politics
There’s a litany of potential explanations for the disastrous drop the Trudeau Liberals have seen in their polling numbers over...