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 [...]
Time to move away from coal plants in Alberta towards cleaner technology Who knew that the average Albertan burns 14,500 pounds of coal per year; 60 per cent of our electricity, more than all other provinces combined. Coal emits the most greenhouse gas in Alberta and kills more people than any other energy form on [...]
Eliminating hospital wait times is an impossibility under current system By Norman Leach Certain things are just predictable. Complaining about the weather in Alberta – predictable. Complaining about the government in Ottawa – predictable. Being unhappy about hospital wait times – very predictable. Each spring, governments across the country publish their hospital wait times and predictably [...]
Plagiarist Margaret Wente not fit to comment on ethics S’cuse me! We ex-journalists are permitted to do whatever we like! And if Prime Minister Thomas Mulcair wants to appoint me to the Senate, I’m taking the job! The same thing goes for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau if he makes the offer, if you must know. But then, I [...]
Outspoken MP Brent Rathgeber quits over “lack of commitment to transparency” From Rob Ford to Brent Rathgeber in a single day – talk about going from the sublime to the ridiculous! Or is that the other way around? I confess that I was gobsmacked by the revelation yesterday Brent Rathgeber, the Conservative Member of Parliament [...]
Most political staffers fail to leave room for events, causing trouble in a crisis Last night, on CBC’s The National, the “Insiders” Panel held an earnest discussion concerning what goes on in the core of political staffers advising a premier, a minister or a mayor when a major crisis occurs. Listening to the three former [...]
All our governments waste untold billions doing nothing, but you never hear about it Heard the latest revelation in the Duffy affair? How about the latest in the Rob Ford saga? That’s the general content of the political news pages and the lead stories on the television news, isn’t it? Scandal — everyone’s favourite. Here’s [...]
Without their support Northern Gateway pipeline will not proceed By Brian Lee Crowley and Ken Coates, Troy Media Just a few weeks ago, proponents of pipelines between the Prairies and the West Coast were preparing for the worst. Adrian Dix, the apparently victory-bound leader of the B.C. NDP, had already declared Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline would [...]
