Every time a government prepares a new budget, the conversation ramps up. Nothing turns on the fountain of speculation like the secret process of politicians planning what they’ll do with your tax money.
To the Salvation Army in Red Deer and the Sally Ann brigades, armed with love and compassion, across Canada which challenged these desperate times and succeeded in a Christmas Kettle campaign that surpassed all expectations.
The home renovation tax credit that expires Sunday has worked wonders in terms of boosting the country’s economy and ought to be extended.
The other shoe always drops. Always.
Just a few weeks before the overhyped World Climate Summit in Copenhagen, person or persons unknown released reams of data from the world’s largest repository of climate data in England.
Albertans who have staked a claim to ideological ground to the right of the Progressive Conservatives have struggled to find a home to call their own for more than 10 years.
The revolving door of right-of-centre political parties began in 1999 with the resignation of then Social Credit leader Randy Thorsteinson.
In a sense, the debate over whether Canada should loosen its immigration criteria to allow more Haitians into the country is moot.
There’s a slim book, published 100 years before the recent protests against Stephen Harper’s darkened Parliament, the prime minister should read.
You can’t call it a miscarriage of justice that the federal government is denying diplomat Richard Colvin funding for legal advice in the investigation of his remarks that Canadian Forces broke international law in their treatment of prisoners of war in Afghanistan.
That’s because justice hasn’t had a chance to be heard yet.
Once a year for the past three years Prime Minister Stephen Harper has successfully asked Governor General Michaelle Jean to summarily terminate a session of Parliament.
The Bank of Canada took centre stage last week, both with an announcement on interest rates on Tuesday (they didn’t budge), and also a broader statement about the current economy in what is called the Monetary Policy Report. And when the central bank speaks, people tend to listen.
This is an election year in Red Deer — and that means more focus on the workings of City Hall, from street cleaning to tax increases.
If a federal politician were to run on a platform demanding homeowners in Toronto or Vancouver subsidize those in Charlottetown, the result would likely be lost votes in Ontario and British Columbia.
The massive global oversupply of solar power panels is as much an object lesson in the irrationality of markets as the U.S. mortgage meltdown that caused this recession.
In a CBC interview about his decision to prorogue Parliament, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Canadians are primarily focused on the economy.
To the organizers of Red Deer’s torch run celebration for a remarkable display of pride and pageantry, and to the community for embracing the event.
A little more than a year ago, it seemed that the United States might be on the verge of electing its first female president or vice-president.
Tymoshenko, Yushchenko, and Yanukovych were once called the “eternal triangle” of Ukrainian politics, but eternity is not what it used to be. One side of the triangle has disappeared.
Before the recent earthquake in Haiti, I’d just read Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond. In it, he compares the adjacent countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
New Alberta Health Minister Gene Zwozdesky probably didn’t have a lot of input into reversing plans to close mental health care beds at Alberta Hospital Edmonton.
Many Canadians are upset at the prorogation of Parliament. But I’m not. I don’t call the typical day-to-day banter in the House parliamentary progress. I call it ping pong.
Certainly democracy is about the will of the people, but we elect representatives to act on our behalf with the intent that they will lead and act as leaders, not as sheep to our whims.
