Reading Time: 3 minutes The former MP filled the walls of his Parliament Hill office with 8,000 baseball caps, 9,000 pins and 5,000 buttons he’d collected over 18 years
Tag: NDP
Small Green Party may wield big power in B.C
Reading Time: 3 minutes Voters of smaller parties are empowered disproportionately in minority governments, at the expense of the majority of voters, who tend to vote for a main party
How will B.C.’s NDP pay for deal with Greens?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Will a Horgan-led government keep the NDP’s election promise to balance the budget and, if so, how in the face of Green-driven spending plans?
Alberta finance minister fear-mongers after credit rating downgrade
Reading Time: 3 minutes Rather than raise the spectre of massive disruptions to public services, Ceci should look to Saskatchewan for an example of productive spending discipline
Will B.C. edge to the precipice once more?
Reading Time: 4 minutes A nose-to-nose election race has clear similarities to the campaign of 1996. Then, an NDP victory meant disaster for the province. It could again in 2017
Beware of politicians bearing (election) gifts
Reading Time: 3 minutes Candidates tie themselves in knots dangling a return to the good old days. Unfortunately, the past doesn’t offer any solutions to our problems
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?
A year-end report card for federal politicians
Reading Time: 3 minutes Even in one of the crummiest years in memory, many of Canada’s elected representatives deserve high marks – and we should be thankful
Alberta squanders its business-friendly reputation
Reading Time: 3 minutes Notley government doesn’t realize the path back to prosperity will only be achieved through improving the province’s investment climate