Apr 16 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Not only is O’Toole embracing a carbon tax (although he doesn’t have the courage or honesty to call it that), he thinks those of us who oppose carbon taxes are dumb enough to be deceived by his sleight-of-language. Every time I hear federal Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole speak, I like him less and less. […]
Apr 11 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — This was a bad week for free speech in Canada. It has become clear that “progressive” opinion is lining up behind censorship of what Canadians can and cannot say on the Internet, including criticism of politicians and bureaucrats.
Apr 4 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Let’s face it, federal Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole is a dud and a dud is never going to defeat Justin Trudeau. A year ago, when the dawning of the pandemic forced the Tories to take their leadership campaign online and push back their leadership vote, I was struggling to choose a candidate to endorse: O’Toole […]
Mar 28 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Big news story at the end of this week: Canada’s vaccination effort finally reaches 10% of the adult population! Whoop-de-freakin’-do.
Mar 23 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — What Erin O’Toole and the federal Conservatives need is a platform like Mike Harris’ 1995 Common Sense Revolution in Ontario. Solid, sensible, small-c conservative policies presented in a way that is clear to voters. What they don’t need is O’Toole pandering to elite consensus on issues such as climate change, then trying to force his […]
Feb 4 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — You watch, despite Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s total train wreck on acquiring COVID vaccines, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal voters will ensure his Liberals win re-election — perhaps even this spring. Until this week, Trudeau had been claiming Canada’s current two-week pause on vaccine shipments is immaterial.
Feb 2 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — If you think misinformation on the Internet and social media is bad now, just imagine how bad it will be when the federal government gives itself the power to regulate it. If the Trudeau government has its way, just writing what I have above could be considered a crime. And my employers could be guilty, […]
Jan 31 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Remember last May when the Trudeau Liberals used the Nova Scotia mass killing as an excuse to ban 1,500 models of “military-style” rifles and shotguns owned by law-abiding Canadians? (That number has since crept up to 9,500 models and perhaps 400,000 individual guns.) The justification given for this largest firearms confiscation in Canadian history was […]
Jan 29 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Finally. Finally, the Alberta government has begun to hit back at the Trudeau Liberals for the way Ottawa has botched – completely – the acquisition of pandemic-ending vaccines. On Thursday, provincial Health Minister Tyler Shandro publicly complained, “For the third time this month, the federal government has notified us through bureaucratic channels that Alberta’s Pfizer […]
Jan 24 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — This is about more than just a disastrous appointment as Governor General. The resignation of Julie Payette this past week as the Queen’s representative in Canada goes to the heart of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s toxic mix of incompetence and arrogance — again.
Jan 19 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — It can’t be much fun being premier of Alberta these days. Our province has two big problems right now — vaccine and the Keystone XL pipeline. And we have to rely on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to get us out of both of them. Heaven help us. Because large pharmaceutical companies made exclusive deals with […]
Jan 10 2021 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — America’s constitutional democracy worked. I know it may not have looked that way this week when U.S. President Donald Trump whipped up his more ardent supporters to storm the Capitol building (and kill a police officer in the process).
Dec 20 2020 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — During his time as Lord Protector of England in the 17th Century, Oliver Cromwell banned celebrations of Christmas Day. Cromwell even had troops ride the countryside and if they smelled a goose roasting, they were to enter the home, remove the feast from the oven and toss it outside. I’m OK with federal and provincial […]
Oct 17 2020 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — I shudder to think what gun owners in this country would have done without Dennis Young, the firearms researcher who has provided so much useful information on federal gun control efforts over the past 25 years. Working out of his home in Alberta, Young, a former Mountie and Parliament Hill staffer, has dug up more […]
Oct 11 2020 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — What do we need an NDP for? I mean it. At the moment, the New Democrats are acting like flunkies for the Liberals. They are doing the political equivalent of holding the Liberals’ handbags, fetching them coffee and making sure their dry cleaning is picked up and their shoes polished.