Sep 6 2021 — L. Ian MacDonald — Postmedia — With three weeks down and only 13 days until the election, it may be that the real campaign is only now beginning. The Liberals must hope so, while the Conservatives may be concerned about having peaked too soon. The Conservatives led the Liberals over the long weekend by 35 to 33 per cent in the […]
Sep 5 2021 — John Ivison — Postmedia — Erin O’Toole delivered his morning press conference with his back to the Burrard Inlet but in political terms, his back was to the wall. The Liberals have found their wedge — gun control — and have been hammering it home with gusto. Justin Trudeau said on Sunday that O’Toole wants to take the country backwards […]
Sep 4 2021 — Licia Corbella — Postmedia — The definition of bribery is giving someone money or something else of value to persuade that person to do something you want. In what can only be described as government-sanctioned bribery, Alberta’s UCP government is going to offer the vaccine hesitant a $100 cash card to get vaccinated.
Sep 2 2021 — John Ivison — Postmedia — There is nothing inevitable about elections – anything can happen, as we have seen over the past three weeks. But as sure as snow melts in spring, the Liberals are going to lose this election unless they can change its trajectory. A new poll by Innovative Research shows how the appetite for change has grown […]
Aug 19 2021 — Ryan Tumilty — Postmedia — A National Post analysis of the 2019 election shows that the Liberals’ search for a majority this year will likely come down to a handful of ridings in B.C., Ontario and Quebec. The analysis of all the results from 2019, and two byelections last year, show where the closest ridings in the country are, and […]
Aug 1 2021 — Jesse Snyder — Postmedia — Back in April, prominent U.S. senator Chuck Schumer tabled a sweeping 1,445-page bill that would lay the groundwork for America’s broad strategy to blunt China’s global rise.
Aug 1 2021 — Postmedia — More than half of Albertans polled said they feel the province is headed in the wrong direction. Lifting COVID-19 restrictions was not enough to give the UCP government much of a bump in voter support as the NDP has kept a significant lead across Alberta, a new poll suggests. An online Leger poll of 1,377 […]
Aug 1 2021 — Don Braid — Postmedia — Premier Jason Kenney’s United Conservative government remains far behind the NDP in both popularity and cold hard cash. A new poll for Postmedia from Leger Research shows 39 per cent of Albertans would vote for the New Democrats, and only 29 per cent for the UCP.
Jun 24 2021 — Tyler Dawson — Postmedia — The two ‘green’ options were the least popular, and one was considered too anti-Alberta. When the Liberal government was workshopping its COVID-19 economic recovery slogan, Canadians rejected one option on the basis that it seemingly slandered Alberta, according to research done for the Privy Council Office. First reported by Blacklock’s Reporter, an Ottawa online news […]
Jun 24 2021 — Postmedia — Despite a push by the Liberals to get a batch of government bills through the House of Commons before it adjourned for the summer, only two of them appear likely to pass the Senate before it rises next week — meaning everything else could be imperilled by a summer or fall election. Leaders of the […]
Jun 17 2021 — Tom Blackwell — Postmedia — Victim Yashdeep Shinde said the Crown never consulted him about its decision to drop the charge and he said he suspects outside influences were at play. An Ontario man reacted bitterly Wednesday after prosecutors dropped an assault charge against a relative of two federal politicians who shoved him to the ground during a clash between […]
Jun 9 2021 — Bill Kaufmann — Postmedia — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is whitewashing the federal government’s role in the deadly operation of residential schools by singling out the Roman Catholic Church for blame, said Most Rev. Fred Henry, bishop emeritus of the Calgary diocese. In an open letter to the prime minister, Henry, who presided over southern Alberta Catholics from 1998 to […]
Jun 3 2021 — Don Braid — Postmedia — There’s no space in Alberta more emblematic of arrogant privilege than the notorious Sky Palace. After then-premier Alison Redford resigned in 2014, dogged by other scandals, it was finally confirmed that the government was building a private residence for her and her daughter atop Edmonton’s Federal building. Smoking cannabis did not help young people kick […]
Jun 3 2021 — Tristin Hopper — Postmedia — While the discovery of 215 children’s graves at the former site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School have galvanized Canadian public opinion, the horrors of the Canadian Indian Residential School system were never a secret. Generations of Ottawa administrators were fully aware of the system’s deadly reputation, and while polite society at the time may […]
Jun 3 2021 — Tyler Dawson — Postmedia — Over the course of the pandemic, the federal government doled out more than $9 million in relief funding to people who had died prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, according to federal government documents — and the estates of those who received the money won’t need to pay it back.