Editorials

In the eternal balancing act of Canadian Liberalism, it’s a week for tilting left. One after another, cabinet ministers are lining up to resuscitate programs that please the Liberal base and that the Harper Conservatives fought tooth and nail.

Five years ago Talia Meguinis was brutally murdered and stuffed in a recycling dumpster in Red Deer.

It is unfortunate that the federal Liberals have broken their promise to change the way we would have elected our next government. Even though few Canadians seem to care that our current system of voting does not produce particularly representative governments, they do seem to care when signature campaign promises are broken.

In Romania, after five straight nights of mass demonstration in Bucharest’s main square, the government agreed to withdraw an emergency decree that decriminalized various abuses of political power (on the grounds that the jails were too crowded). If you defrauded the state of less than $47,500, under the new rules, you might have to pay it back, but you wouldn’t go to jail.

Uncommonly busy political pre-season

Here’s what happened to newspapers.

It is not to diminish the economic importance of the trade arrangements between Canada and the United States to note that more than the bilateral relationship between the countries will be at stake when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds his first face-to-face meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Passing the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) is as important to me as another aircraft carrier,” said former U.S. defence secretary Ashton Carter two years ago, as the negotiations on the huge new free trade organization were nearing completion.

Alberta didn’t have much to celebrate in 2016

Once-in-a-lifetime nonpartisan ‘sure thing.’