Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s relationship with its biggest neighbour, ally and trading partner is about to radically change
Author: Doug Firby
Doug Firby is an award-winning editorial writer with more than four decades of experience working for newspapers, magazines and online publications in Ontario and western Canada. Previously, he served as Editorial Page Editor at the Calgary Herald.
If a newspaper falls in a forest . . .
Reading Time: 3 minutes Will there come a day once again when members of a new fourth estate will be able to earn a living telling the stories that truly matter?
Economic ‘rebalancing’ sets us up for more pain
Reading Time: 4 minutes Smug, self-righteous elites in Ontario looking for a re-emergence of the manufacturing sector are delusional
Germany’s experience with refugees won’t be repeated here
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian officials are working rapidly but diligently to ensure that all Syrian refugees approved to enter our country are properly vetted
Finding the silver lining in a gloomy year
Reading Time: 3 minutes So long, farewell, good riddance
Keeping election promises can be overrated
Reading Time: 3 minutes It is too early to accuse the Trudeau government of breaking its election promises
Time to put Canada’s bad boy image to rest
Reading Time: 3 minutes In Paris, Canada may actually be able to pull off one of the most dramatic “re-branding” coups in recent history and save the oilsands
Canada has no moral choice but to take refugees
Reading Time: 3 minutes “By making Syrian refugees the enemy, we are playing into (the terrorists’) hands”
The smarter way to fight terrorism at home
Reading Time: 3 minutes With new defence minister Harjit Sajja at the helm, Canada stands a fighting chance of averting a devastating terrorist attack
A Liberal cabinet freezeout comes to an end for Calgary
Reading Time: 3 minutes Calgary came in from the cold when newly elected Liberal MP Kent Hehr was appointed minister of Veteran Affairs