Reading Time: 3 minutes The results of the MyDemocracy.ca poll show a remarkably broad consensus that winner-take-all politics is not what Canadians want
Category: Politics
The Trump effect: Canada’s politicians wearing invisible cloaks
Reading Time: 4 minutes Remember that old maxim: Silence in the face of injustice – and hate and cruelty – is complicity
Sid Ryan: the final roar of the socialist lion?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Can Ryan ride the new populist, nationalist and anti-establishment wave that’s sweeping through western democracies – from a socialist perspective?
Maximum disruption, promise made and promise kept
Reading Time: 3 minutes Trump adviser Steve Bannon wants precisely the kind of chaos we’re now witnessing, to bring the establishment crashing down
Why Alberta can’t get a handle on its chronic deficits
Reading Time: 3 minutes The fundamental problem in Alberta is that spending growth over several years exceeds revenue growth, and is growing faster than other key economic metrics
Trump one week in: is there more here than meets the eye?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Focus more on what Trump is doing, rather than on what he is saying, to determine exactly where this administration is going
Canada needs a strategy to improve drug safety for seniors
Reading Time: 3 minutes Much more can and should be done by governments to address this serious health issue for our aging population
Making America great again – with a lot of very nice walls
Reading Time: 3 minutes President Donald Trump asserts that the carnage will now stop and America will soon be great again. What a fantastic time to be alive
Regional divisions will continue to deepen without real Senate reform
Reading Time: 3 minutes What O’Leary and Trudeau seem incapable of understanding is that the Senate plays a role vital to the success of our country
When a U.S. president tried to pack the Supreme Court
Reading Time: 3 minutes Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to pack the U.S. Supreme Court because it disagreed with many elements of his New Deal