About those oaths and Charles Mountbatten-Windsor
The debate persists. Why are Canadians, citizens of a democracy, required to swear oaths of allegiance to a monarch? The answer of course is that…
… a Bill Longstaff blog
The debate persists. Why are Canadians, citizens of a democracy, required to swear oaths of allegiance to a monarch? The answer of course is that…
Oil and gas is a very lucrative business, and very generous to Alberta and to Canada. Every year it favours us with many billions of…
Canada, the land of wide open spaces, of oceans, prairies, forests and mountains, is a wonderland of nature. But underneath all that natural glory lies…
Pipeline madness has overtaken Alberta and threatens to infect the rest of the country. Despite gambling and losing $1.3 billion on the Keystone XL pipeline,…
It’s more than a bit late, but as they say, better late … Canada, along with Great Britain and Australia are officially recognizing a Palestinian…
Donald Trump and his MAGA colleagues have decided to do more than abandon America’s fight against climate change, more than formalize climate denial as the…
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.…
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…
President-elect Donald Trump’s comment about making Canada the 51st state apparently has his supporters in stitches. A man never short of boorish comments to entertain…
“A paltry sum,” said Chandni Raina, India’s representative at the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan. Ms. Raina was referring to…
Canada’s attitude toward the Palestinian people could be described as hypocritical. We have consistently claimed that we support an independent Palestinian state, but then just…
Statistics Canada recently reported that in at least one respect this country is moving in the wrong direction. Income inequality has risen to the highest…