Editorials

Maybe they reach sexual maturity very young in Scotland. What else could explain the fact that they are going to have another referendum on Scottish independence only three years after the last one?

To compare the leadership debates of the Conservatives and the New Democrats on the basis of the latter’s first all-candidates meeting is to engage in a study in contrast.

Course of abortion debate never did run smooth

Over his first 15 months as a rookie MP and Canada’s finance minister, Bill Morneau has mastered the art of the platitude. That could come in handy when he presents his second budget this month.

Reasonable people have long believed that the first person in a conversation to mention Adolf Hitler or the Nazis loses the argument. Turkey’s President Recep Tayib Erdogan does not subscribe to this view, and he has no intention of losing the argument.

Sometimes to kill time in Ottawa, a few of us old-timers like to speculate about whatever happened to the Naylor report.

Last week a group of Central Alberta doctors went public about the “state of the hospital,” exposing the issues that medical staff and patients face every day at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.

Contrary to an increasingly popular Canadian belief, the Trump administration does not have a monopoly on so-called alternative facts. Nor did it invent the concept.

When travelling, it’s handy to show some fluency in local dialects. “We are of course very alert to the challenges posed by the Southern Resident killer whale pod,” Justin Trudeau said on Thursday, cool as a cucumber, as he stood on the dock at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt, just outside Victoria.

One Edmonton NDP MLA and one PC party leadership hopeful both want to scrap Alberta’s practice of switching the clocks twice a year to daylight time and back again to standard time for four months of the year.