Views from the Beltline

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…

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…

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,…

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…

Canada’s 45th General Election is over and my reaction is mostly relief. A few short months ago, I was expecting our country would follow the…

Conservatives are not at all comfortable with modern science. Our last Conservative government, the Harper regime, exemplified this distrust. It eliminated the long-form census, pulled…

There is, if one is inclined to pessimism, ample opportunity to indulge these days. The political world alone offer a variety of depressing trends. Around…

“The world is now seeing Trump’s America for exactly what it is becoming: a rogue state led by an impulsive strongman disconnected from the rule…

Justin Trudeau’s government introduced a carbon-pricing regime with two components: a levy on fuel paid by consumers (fondly known as the “carbon tax”) and an…

A group of 128 municipal politicians have written a letter to the leaders of the five main federal parties calling on them to address the climate…

Preston Manning has, as he is wont to do, once again aroused the bogeyman of Western separation. He warns that "Voters, particularly in central and…

According to the The Canadian Psychiatric Association there is narcissism, and then there is narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), a mental disorder or illness. The Diagnostic…