Always on the alert for good news, my attention was piqued recently by some stats released by the Angus Reid Institute. The numbers derived from…

I have experienced a number of revelations about the state of North American democracy in the last few years. In 2016 I thought it was…

A recent headline in the The New York Times read “Long After Blockade, Canada’s Truckers Have a Political Champion.” The champion it was referring to…

This week the House of Commons debated a motion by the Bloc Québécois regarding the House’s morning prayer. Yes, the morning prayer no less. As…

Checking the various international climate performance indices for Canada’s rankings is a depressing business. Consider for example the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI). The CCPI…

Many Canadians think of “the West” as one monolithic block. This concept seemed to firm up in many minds back when Preston Manning and his…

So the Queen is 96. A good age. Happy birthday, Your Majesty. Her birthday once again prompts the usual question. Do we want to continue…

Chrystia Freehand’s recent budget, although modest, did have some goodies in it for the military, including more than $8-billion in new funding over five years.…

It’s taken a while, and the loss of a third of journalism jobs and 451 news outlets since 2008, along with the migration of billions…

Is there any issue that has had more plans and less action than global warming? Now the feds have presented us with another. And like…

I was pleased indeed to read about the agreement between the Liberals and the NDP to create a stable government until 2025. This will be…

F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time…