Jan 26 2020 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — I’ve been a vocal supporter of same-sex marriage since back when Liberals like Ralph Goodale were voting against it and I had many a hearty debate back in the day with those who obstinately objected to extending this liberty for all. But somehow I can’t bring myself to get worked up about recent comments made […]
Jan 19 2020 — Christina Blizzard — Sun Media — Just call them Harry, Meghan and Archie. While they’ll retain their Royal Highness status, they’ll no longer call themselves HRH. In a deal hammered out with the Queen and her aides over the last few days and announced Saturday, Harry — arguably Britain’s second most popular royal after the Queen — will be known as […]
Jan 12 2020 — Lorrie Goldstein — Sun Media — It isn’t only Canadians, and Canadians of Iranian origin, who are grief-stricken and angry now that Iran has admitted it blew Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 out of the sky with a surface-to-air missile. Iranians — in Iran — are heartbroken, given that most of the passengers were Iranians, or dual citizens of Iran. And […]
Jan 12 2020 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Let’s say for a minute that a well-known mob boss responsible for dozens of murders – hundreds – gets careless and is killed by police officers who have been trailing him for years. The mobster’s followers are understandably furious. In retaliation, they launch a handful of attacks against police. But in their haste, they also […]
Jan 9 2020 — Mark Bonokoski — Sun Media — Out of all the potential contenders who might enter the race to replace Andrew Scheer as Conservative leader, the one the Trudeau Liberals truly can’t stand is the pesky Pierre Poilievre, who looks more like a kid still in college than a veteran MP. Somewhere in his attic, he must have his own a Dorian […]
Jan 6 2020 — Lorrie Goldstein — Sun Media — Despite the constant virtue-signaling from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on human-induced climate change, his personal carbon footprint, along with Canada’s, is rising. The reason with regard to Trudeau, as documented by reporter Bryan Passifiume in Monday’s Toronto Sun, is the PM’s love of jet setting to exotic locations for his family vacations, air travel being […]
Jan 4 2020 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — There’s an eerie scene in the new documentary American Factory that needs to be watched by any Canadian who is still on the fence about the Huawei question. The 2019 film now available on Netflix — and executive produced by the Obamas — tells the story of what happens when a Chinese billionaire buys a […]
Jan 4 2020 — Lorrie Goldstein — Sun Media — If the next federal Conservative leader is looking for a coherent policy on human-induced climate change, a good start would be honesty. It would begin by explaining that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s climate plan has followed the classic political strategy of so-called “progressivism,” as exposed by the great conservative thinker Thomas Sowell in his seminal […]
Jan 4 2020 — Sun Media — They came, as the 2010 Canadian Olympic men’s team once did in a crucial game against Russia, like gorillas out of a cage. Canada scored three times before the game was four minutes old and soared to a four-goal first period to flatten the Finns 5-0 before 8,693 Saturday at Ostravar Arena. That was proper […]
Dec 30 2019 — Jim Warren — Sun Media — As we count down the remaining days in this decade, it is remarkable to look back at the massive change and some notable events during the past 10 years. POLITICS The most important Canadian political story of the past 10 years is the rise of the Ford family to political prominence in Toronto, Ontario, and […]
Dec 29 2019 — Sun Media — According to polling done by the Trudeau government prior to the Oct. 21 election, most Canadians are skeptical about Canada meeting its greenhouse gas reduction targets for 2030 but want us to try. That’s good news in the sense Canadians are increasingly seeing through Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s nonsensical claim that Canada is on track […]
Dec 28 2019 — Bill Kaufmann — Sun Media — For the second time this month, the Canadian Energy Centre war room’s choice of a corporate logo has run into possible flak. A California-based software company said Friday it’s considering legal action over the CEC’s use of a logo it deems similar to its own. That comes a week after the war room pulled its […]
Dec 28 2019 — Mark Towhey — Sun Media — Populism was the political buzzword of the decade. Although different people mean different things when they say it — pretty much everyone talking about “populism” considers it a bad thing. So, let’s call the following examples “popular democracy.” Good or bad, it’s winning formula.
Dec 20 2019 — Lorrie Goldstein — Sun Media — While Canada is a bit player in emitting industrial greenhouse gases — responsible for 1.6% of global output — it’s a world leader in sending bloated delegations to the annual United Nations’ gabfests on climate change in the world’s tourist hotspots. This year’s conference, which just concluded in Madrid, was widely condemned as an abject […]
Dec 20 2019 — Rick Bell — Sun Media — You can relax now. You can kick off your Christmas festivities with a clear mind and an open heart. Let contentment flow throughout Alberta. You see, what we thought was true is just an illusion, an ugly mirage, make-believe. Things are not so bad. Canada is in good shape. There is no crisis of national […]