Opinion

Amid much self-congratulation about bipartisan co-operation, the California Assembly voted 76-0 Monday to allow the federal government to extend unemployment insurance benefits by up to 20 weeks.

Nothing is ever quite as it appears in federal politics. Take, for example, the cosy relationship between guns and Conservatives.

Unless you’re planning to live forever, you should come up with a plan to distribute your assets in the event of your death.

In Canada’s free health-care system, nothing is free; we all know that. We pay for it in taxes: federal, provincial and local.

The financial crisis and economic recession have renewed the debate about the government’s role in the private economy.

Governments often get accused of running a crooked ship, but even the Mafia knows better than to pull a bonehead stunt liked the one they’ve tried on Ontario senior Paul Kusznirewicz.

While Parliament took a week off, politics changed, perhaps forever. All it took was vaporizing vast Canadian private wealth and negligent U.S. public spending.

The Class of 1993 is mostly graduating this fall — 15 years after it delighted its supporters and frightened its detractors by getting elected.

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