1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1010+ words) In 2003, Peter MacKay stood next to Stephen Harper and said the point of merging two conservative parties—the Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance—was simple: stop splitting the vote that kept handing the Liberals majority governments. “Our swords will…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (1081+ words) During the last United States presidential campaign, an ominous 920-page policy document emerged into the public eye. Known as Project 2025 and released by the Heritage Foundation, it laid out a blueprint for a maximalist version of executive power, a sidelining…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (570+ words) Monday, January 10, began as a typical morning. Easton headed directly downstairs to the main vault and prepared to open its seven-inch-thick door at the programmed time. Easton noticed a slight discolouration around the door’s edges. This turned out to be…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (878+ words) If you’ve noticed more national flags adorning Canadian streets, even in Montreal where the fleur-de-lys is far more common, you’re not alone. Every day is Canada day. Annexationist rhetoric will do that to a country. But sudden patriotism can’t obscure…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1005+ words) I’m an anesthesiologist in Grande Prairie, Alberta, and for most of my career, I’ve worked on two questions. How do people and systems move through change successfully? What circumstances break them? I eventually turned those insights into a book called…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (628+ words) Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon’s criticism of the federal government’s proposed high-speed rail project generated no shortage of headlines last week in Quebec media. The Alto line would link Quebec City and Toronto, with stops in Trois-Rivières, Laval, Montreal,…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (343+ words) As Albertans prepare to test the idea of leaving Canada this coming October, their most attentive observers may be found about 3,500 kilometres away in Quebec, where sovereigntists will be studying the outcome for lessons into their own long-stalled project. But…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (795+ words) Meanwhile, the king had no objection, and apparently, that’s what settles it, so Arbour gets the job. I think she’ll be a fine governor general, but then again, I liked the astronaut at first. What I don’t need is for…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago   (598+ words) While much of the attention around Alberta premier Danielle Smith’s proposed October 19 referendum has been on the possibility of separation from Canada, parts of the referendum package focus directly on immigration and newcomer access to public services—issues that get…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (667+ words) I’m trying to figure out what Prime Minister Mark Carney thought he was doing at this year’s Global Progress Action Summit. The prime minister read from his prepared remarks after a few minutes of impromptu nervous-jokey preliminaries of the sort…...