Liberals have the opportunity to adopt forward-looking Aboriginal policies By Joseph Quesnel The Liberal Party’s Aboriginal Peoples’ Commission is reaching out to Indigenous peoples across Canada in preparation for the next federal election. The Commission aims to develop some Aboriginal policies and influence the direction of the Liberal Party. This is an historic opportunity for [...]
Alternative vote keeps connection to community Toronto City Council this week overwhelmingly voted to change the way Torontonians vote in their municipal elections. Support for the Ranked Ballot Initiative, which would implement the alternative vote system, came from all sides of the political spectrum. This vote is not enough to make the change. The Province [...]
What will happen in the wake of Alberta Health Services board firing? Is it possible to be chaotic and paralyzed at the same time? That would appear to be the paradoxical state of Alberta Health Services in the wake of the obviously carefully planned dismissal of the board and its high-profile chair, Stephen Lockwood, by [...]
Until we get real austerity in Canada, taxes will remain high The news is universally bad from coast to coast. Bad, that is, if what you wanted was sound fiscal management from the government you elected. We’ve gone so long without it, in fact, that few of us would recognize it if it came. Tony [...]
Firing of Stephen Lockwood and AHS board was carefully premeditated As Stephen Duckett, once the CEO of Alberta Health Services, might have said to Stephen Lockwood, who until yesterday morning was the chair of the AHS Board: “Well, that’s the way the cookie crumbles.” Stephen Duckett and Stephen Lockwood both met sudden ends as senior officials of the [...]
Christy Clark’s cabinet choices show a shift to rural concerns & resources Forget that BC’s technology sector creates more economic wealth annually than its resource industries. Forget that BC’s tourism does, too. Forget that many of the other elements of the urban, creative economy, from world-class consumer goods and soft goods onward, are also fundamentally [...]
Horne can fire Lockwood over AHS executive bonuses, but either way he’ll look bad Whatever happens next, it seems certain Alberta Health Minster Fred Horne is going to end up with egg on his face. Indeed, when the dust has settled from the current contretemps at Alberta Health Services, the entire government of Alison Redford [...]
Stephen Harper introspective as rumblings grow in Conservative ranks If you’d asked Prime Minister Stephen Harper a year ago where he’d be today, he wouldn’t have said where he is now. Ideally by now he’d have had several trade deals wrapped up, two pipelines approved, more reshaping of federal spending done, perhaps even some sort [...]
Briar MacLean deserves a public apology from Calgary Board of Education By Norman Leach For an editorial writer, the Calgary Board of Education (CBE) is a gift that just keeps on giving. A little over a week ago I wrote about an incident at Sir John A Macdonald School in Calgary where a young man, [...]
Votes being parked with the Liberals as Conservative support bleeds away When you get elected on a pledge of being open and accountable, and of killing the culture of entitlement, there’s one thing that will sink you waiting in the wings. Looking like you’re aiding and abetting the culture of entitlement, then evading the issue [...]
