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The Policy Horizons report was meant as a public policy thought exercise, not a piece of political ammunition. But in turning it into one, Pierre...
Mark Carney is poised to win the most seats in Alberta and Saskatchewan of any Liberal leader in 50 years. If he wants to double down on that...
Pierre Poilievre has long been defined by his willingness to attack, and it’s what brought him to the brink of the biggest political victory of his...
Pierre Poilievre’s rallies are a big hit, even if they’re not as big as his supporters would like to pretend. But the thousands of people turning...
Progressives can, and should, still care deeply about climate change, affordable housing, and any number of other issues that aren’t automatically...
Every time Danielle Smith and Preston Manning open their mouths, they remind people that they’re willing — proud, even — to put Alberta first....
After years of watching federal and provincial elected officials either do nothing about the housing crisis or just tinker at the margins, young...
Both Pierre Poilievre and Danielle Smith are still operating as though the world, and Canada’s place in it, haven’t fundamentally and permanently...
This renewed bet by Poilievre on the oil and gas industry might help his Conservative Party of Canada win more seats in Alberta and Saskatchewan, if...
As a general rule, men shouldn't talk about women's biological clocks. That's especially true if they have a track record like Pierre...
Conservatives are working through the various stages of political grief. Danielle Smith, ever the maverick, has decided to add a sixth one: empty...
The combination of an aging population and declining birth rates is leading Canada, like every other developed nation on earth, into a demographic...
As the surprise front-runner in an election that his Liberals seemed destined to lose, Mark Carney is the most visible champion of a broader movement...
There may have been a time when Canadians were willing to countenance the idea of electing a prime minister whose intellectual development apparently...
In a recent interview with far-right U.S. media site Breitbart, Smith handed Carney a gift-wrapped sledgehammer in the form of an admission that...
Naheed Nenshi has never failed at politics before. But if he keeps going the way he has over the last nine months, he's about to find out what...
Recent polls show that voters don't trust Pierre Poilievre to deal with Donald Trump. His willingness to take Trump — a known and notorious...
Recent polls show that voters don't trust Pierre Poilievre to deal with Donald Trump. His willingness to take Trump — a known and notorious...
Pierre Poilievre has pledged over and over to "axe" the carbon tax. He probably never imagined someone else would do it for him.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer's latest report on federal climate policy has, once again, only served to muddy the water — and empower those...
After two years of throwing haymaker after haymaker, Poilievre suddenly finds himself pouring political sweat.
If there was a Nobel Prize for dumb ideas, Trump’s trade war would be a lock for it.
Danielle Smith still seems to think that the trade war with Donald Trump is really about border security. How long until she figures out what's...
Canadians are looking for the person who can help guide the country through the economic and political storms of the next four years, not their own...
Attempts to appease Donald Trump have clearly failed. When will the remaining holdouts finally realize it?
Check the social media accounts of any prominent convoy participant, whether it’s Tamara Lich, Pat King, or their dedicated transcriptionists in...
Elon Musk and Donald Trump are taking an axe to the American federal government. American citizens will be the ones who pay the price.
Canada should present Danielle Smith with an offer she can’t possibly refuse: full and unqualified federal support for a new pipeline to tidewater....
Those cheering Donald Trump's attempts to double down on fossil fuels should enjoy the good feelings while they last. The energy transition,...
A plurality of Conservative supporters in Canada support Donald Trump. Do they realize that's about to cost them the next federal election?
Forget about a carbon tax election. Canadians are being thrust — very much against their will — into a much more serious and sobering...
Alberta's premier has been unapologetic about trying to get special treatment for the oil and gas industry from Donald Trump. Why those efforts...
Donald Trump's threatened tariffs — and threats to our sovereignty — have united Canadians from coast to coast to coast. Now, what are we...
The findings in Justice Marie-Josée Hogue's report confirm what the last few months have made abundantly clear: the problem of foreign...
If they'd pulled the plug back and gone to an election back in the fall, they might have been able to leave the Liberals in their wake and form...
Is it Carbon Tax Carney? Canapé Carney? Redistribution Carney? Right now, Canada's Conservatives can't even settle on a nickname for their...
The United States president keeps threatening Canada's sovereignty. Could he unwittingly be lighting a nationalist spark under the entire country...
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has charted her own course during the negotiations with Donald Trump and his tariff threat against Canada. So far,...
Pierre Poilievre and Danielle Smith want to build pipelines and refineries in Canada — just like Pierre Trudeau's National Energy Program...
Bad-faith provocateurs have been blaming everything from DEI to local Democrat politicians for the horrendous consequences of Los Angeles's...
Even Stephen Harper has found the courage to speak out against Donald Trump. Why won't Danielle Smith?
Clark, the former B.C. premier under the now-defunct right-of-centre BC Liberal Party, was already a weak candidate by any conventional measure. Then...
For many Conservatives in Canada, Trudeau’s belief in a “post-national” future was all the excuse they ever needed to betray their own country.
Among Canadians, nobody is more enthusiastic about abandoning their country to the United States than Conservative Albertans: a recent poll from...
At last, the long national nightmare for Canada’s oil and gas industry is over. It loves to pretend it’s been labouring under the yoke of green...
If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, Justin Trudeau has laid down more than his share of blacktop during his nine-plus years in...
It’s hard to be a climate optimist these days. With Trumpism ascendant in the United States, Pierre Poilievre well on his way to axing the carbon...
When Justin Trudeau took over as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada in 2013, his job was to rescue it from political oblivion. Two years...
“The greatest happiness,” Genghis Khan famously said, “is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes,...
Chrystia Freeland has only just begun to fight. That’s one of the many possible conclusions you can draw from her remarkable resignation letter. It...