It’s been 19 years since Gilles Duceppe was elected as the first Bloc Quebecois member of Parliament.
Anyone who has ever attended a final parade for participants at the Penhold Air Cadet Summer Training Centre can’t help but be impressed.
Back in November, I predicted that the American people had made the wrong choice in electing an unremarkable Chicago lawyer and senator to the highest office in the land.
Federal Environment minister Jim Prentice recently announced Canada’s intention to introduce a “cap and trade” system that would force industry to lower its emissions of carbon dioxide.
It’s a devastating blow that a healthy grizzly bear population can’t be restored on the Prairies.
Stephen Harper is correctly diagnosing the symptom that tightened photo-opportunity smiles at the latest, least congenial Three Amigos summit. How fully the prime minister grasps the deeper disease is less certain.
The United Church has come out with progressive social positions like that on water use and their stand against bottled water.
There are two fundamental issues at play in the debate about reforming Canada’s employment insurance system.
Can Rupert Murdoch save the newspaper industry by making people pay to read the news online?
The lingering opposition to needle exchange and disposal programs is uncaring, retrograde and represents faulty economics.
The science is clear: human-caused global warming is a reality. Now it’s time to focus on solutions.
To the organizers of Rock n’ Red Deer, a car show held at the Westerner Park last weekend.
It used to be that rich crooks, with friends in high places, were seldom sent to prison.
Defended by the best lawyers that money could buy, they tended to win in court much more often than the average person.
It is generally agreed that North Korea and Burma have the two most oppressive regimes in Asia.
Edmonton city taxpayers have every right to grumble about the cost of their annual Indy race event. One and a half million dollars is a lot of money to throw in to attract visitors to the city for a long weekend of noisy cars. Last year, it was $5.3 million.
He’s tall dark and handsome. He’s dignified and dynamic. He’s fit and full of life. And he wants to share his secrets with you. But more than anything, he’s dedicated to the health and fitness of Canada’s First Nations.
In media interviews, Canadian astronaut Julie Payette recently pointed out the often overlooked contributions of Canucks in the exploration of outer space.
Bill Bennett was Part 2 of the Bennett Social Credit dynasty that governed British Columbia for a total of 30 years.
Neither the public nor the authorities seem to be alarmed at the recent emergence of the virulent H1RR swine flu that has already claimed some 30 lives in Alberta.
Both the federal and provincial governments have auditors general to scrutinize their books, not just to see if the numbers balance but to rule on whether taxpayers are getting value for money.
