Opinion As society must accommodate individuals, individuals must accommodate society Diversity can only be Canada’s strength if we share common core values. That was what an 85-year-old Don Cherry, albeit poorly, was attempting to point out.
Canadian News Newfoundland PCs double their seats in historic election result These are not ordinary times, and the Newfoundland election was certainly anything but ordinary.
Canadian News Trudeau felt entitled to loyalty from bureaucrats according to new Fife report It continues to paint a troubling picture of the prime minister, a man who perhaps might not have “been so forward” with his corruption if he knew that the national newspapers would report on it.
Canadian News Today is E-Day on The Rock and here’s why it matters more than you might think Today marks the end of yet another exceptionally divisive campaign, and the last provincial election before October.
Canadian News StopSOP lawyers risked their careers for the sake of sanity and a silent majority supported them Ontario’s Law Society just had its elections, in which lawyers across the province elect their representatives for the monthly board meetings. The Law Societies are the regulatory bodies in each province for the legal profession.
Canadian News Horgan takes the bait and sues Alberta over “turn off the taps” legislation The government of British Columbia has sued the government of Alberta, claiming that Premier Kenney’s “turn off the taps” legislation is unconstitutional.
Opinion Stubborn and unimaginative political elites have turned electoral reform into a national threat The Quebec government has announced that it will switch to a proportional representation election system without a referendum.
Canadian News What if we kept the carbon tax, and got rid of the GST instead? The term “revenue neutral” has gotten a bit mixed up in the recent controversy surrounding the government’s carbon pricing plan.
Canadian News Refugees finally join Canadians in being less important than Liberals’ political interests Parties are not just a collection of people. It is like a body that replaces its cells over time. Like a body, a party has an institutional memory, a culture that develops naturally as individuals pursue the group interest insofar as they coincide with personal interests.
Canadian News Gas prices spike as carbon tax takes effect New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan saw gas prices increase by about 4.4 cents per litre starting on Monday.
Politics & Policy Let Her Speak: Legal opinions are fact-specific and nobody knows the facts Laws apply to facts. Until we have the facts, legal experts can’t apply the laws to them.
Canadian News Twilight Zone: The ‘other’ MPs in Parliament There are more MPs than you realize not from the official big three parties!
Business & Finance Silver lining: Canada’s economy still looks good in the long-term Things may seem bleak to some, but Canada’s situation has to be put into perspective.
International News ISIS has finally been expelled but Syria remains divided The liberation of Baghouz represents the last of ISIS-controlled territory, over which the terrorist group has ruled with an iron fist.
Canadian News Transfer payments allow CAQ to continue on Quebec’s long path back from heavy debt The CAQ is expected to present the party’s first ever budget today
Canadian News Expert tells Bloomberg that the Canada Dollar could fall to a record 62 US cents In percentage terms, it is not necessarily a devastating fall from our current 75 cents per dollar exchange rate. However, Wolf said that he personally believes that the country could already be in a state of recession.
Canadian News Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick resigns, to be replaced by elections panel colleague His replacement, who was already on the panel alongside the deputies of Ministers Lametti and Goodale, is likely to become the new head of the election monitoring panel. Minister Freeland’s new deputy will likely become the newest member of the panel.
Canadian News Updated: Conservatives filibuster budget for Justice Committee shutdown An effort like this will be physically taxing for everyone involved, making it a very costly form of punishment.
Politics & Policy Sunny ways have officially lawyered up: what this means going forward We know that the Liberals have a habit of destroying evidence, even when that evidence is important for economic purposes, or even for saving lives. It is a party that valued partisanship to the point of turning a blind eye to warning signs of the tainted-blood scandal.
Politics & Policy In defence of refusing to parrot the “correct” immigration narrative This is a societal rift that Canada might have largely avoided had it not been for the intentionally detrimental policy decisions by the Trudeau government.
Culture Parliament must legislate political neutrality for foreign financial corporations Patreon famously removed a YouTube user, seemingly for political reasons, without explanation. Eventually they claimed that MasterCard had forced them to remove the account. In the age of online creators, that is professional murder.
Canadian News Only a scandalous budget could possibly distract Canada from SNC-Lavalin When their backs are against the wall and no strategy is off the table, there may be no limit to the amount of long-term damage the Liberals are willing to cause for their partisan short-term gain.
Canadian News PBO report shows Trudeau running out of provincial money in dangerous infrastructure cost-sharing arrangement A recent PBO report on government infrastructure spending is a cause for concern
Opinion One cannot understate the historic importance of what happened in British Parliament today The UK is in an impossible position, with no sign of how things will eventually be resolved