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The populist right’s favourite country is a failing state

Jun 24, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump is a great admirer of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Indeed, former Trump adviser Steve Bannon described Orbán as “Trump before…

Economics

Canadians have a thing for Canada Post

Jun 22, 2025

In these times when institutions are often faced with mistrust, if there’s one Canadian institution one might expect to be in that category, it’s our…

Democracy Environment

Unleashing the economy on the environment

Jun 19, 2025

Reading about the Liberals’ One Canadian Economy Act, or Bill C-5, and the rush to get it through Parliament, I was reminded of the infamous…

Canada Foreign affairs History

We shouldn’t forget our American history

Jun 12, 2025

From the 17th to the 20th centuries was an imperial age for leading European countries. They explored, traded, colonized and built empires around the world.…

Alberta Politics

Separatism isn’t popular, but the separatist party is

Jun 3, 2025

Support for separatism in Alberta ebbs and flows, up to maximum support of about 30 percent of the population, where it is now. One might…

Politics

About that throne speech

May 29, 2025

I was a little surprised to see EIIR on the head of the throne where King Charles read Prime Minister Carney’s plans for the country.…

Alberta

Alberta, tribalism, luck and oil

May 24, 2025

People are tribal. It’s in our genes. We are a communal species. It makes us what we are, it brings us together, and it tears…

Alberta Politics

Pipeline myths

May 21, 2025

Some Albertans are unhappy that their guys lost the federal election, so they’re doing a MAGA. They are not accepting the result. They will take…

Politics

Party fealty—a public curse

May 19, 2025

The federal Conservatives’ fealty to Pierre Poilievre is puzzling to some. The man never caught on with Canadians, never achieving a decent popularity even when…

Global warming

A carbon tax on the filthy rich?

May 16, 2025

The very rich, F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said, are different from you and me. Of course they are. They spend a lot more, pollute a…

Religion

Leo XIV—a new pope with some new/old ideas

May 11, 2025

So, an American pope. A first. Now both the world’s most powerful political leader and the world’s most powerful religious leader are both Yankees. Fortunately,…

Alberta Politics

Alberta opts for plutocratic elections

May 8, 2025

One of the first actions of the NDP when they were elected to govern Alberta in 2015 was to reform the province’s election rules. At…

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