Charles Rusnell down-sized by Edmonton Journal before being hired by CBC You’d think it would be easy to run a petroleum-soaked, cash-rich jurisdiction like Alberta, but a day seldom seems to pass out here on the western edge of the Great Plains without our governing Progressive Conservative Party suffering another pratfall or embarrassment. But how [...]
More evidence needed before convicting Rob Ford in court of public opinion Schadenfreude is all very well, but this whole Rob Ford video scandal has me feeling just the tiniest bit hinky. It’s a due-process thing, and I recognize that there can be no due process in politics, as unjust as that may seem. No, realpolitik demands that [...]
BC Election 2013: Generation Squeeze opts out of voting unless issues speak to them By Paul Kershaw, Troy Media Fumbling to explain the massive gap between polls predicting an NDP win and the reality of last night’s larger majority for the Christy Clark Liberals, Angus Reid Public Opinion spokesperson Mario Conseco cited the NDP’s inability [...]
Physician networks offer a way forward to retool Canada’s health care system By Thérèse Stukel and David Henry, Troy Media As Canadians, we take justifiable pride in Canada’s health care system, with its long record of equitable coverage for most important services. If you become acutely ill and you live close to a major centre you [...]
CBC journalist Charles Rusnell breaks scandals one after another You’d think it would be easy to run a petroleum-soaked, cash-rich jurisdiction like Alberta, but a day seldom seems to pass out here on the western edge of the Great Plains without our governing Progressive Conservative Party suffering another pratfall or embarrassment. But how many Albertans [...]
Stephen Harper seen as unaccountable as Chrétien was thanks to Mike Duffy scandal The tipping point has passed. Senator Mike Duffy’s endless tale of money and greed has managed to energize Canadians — not against him, but against the Conservatives in Ottawa. “There will be a new code in Ottawa. Break the rules, you will be [...]
Warnings from what Albertans think on election spending limits, voting, protests By Trevor Harrison, Parkland Institute As Albertans watch the Stanley Cup playoffs with their own two hockey teams once again on the outside, a recent report published by Parkland Institute shows similar shared grief and angst over the state of politics in the province. [...]
Canadian public should be compensated if airport ownership is transferred By Mary Jane Bennett, Troy Media The Senate’s recent recommendation that airport rents be phased out and ownership of Canada’s public airports be transferred to the non-profit corporations that now run them without duly compensating the Canadian public is wrongheaded. The recommendation came in response [...]
Statistics Canada’s National Household Survey can’t make conclusions By Robert Gerst, Troy Media There is much talk today of ‘big data.’ As our world goes digital, companies, governments, not-for-profits, and organizations of all sorts obtain vast quantities of data about, well, virtually everything. But is the data any good? So far, the talk has been [...]
Results from BC Election 2013 that caused surprise are actually part of a pattern Manitoba’s Greg Selinger. Ontario’s Dalton McGuinty. Alberta’s Alison Redford. Now BC’s Christy Clark. All four of these were apparently on track to lose their long-in-the-tooth administrations — and all four managed re-election of their governments. In all four cases, as well, [...]
