Jan 17 2019 — Joe Warmington — Sun Media — Karen Wang says her apology to NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh stands. But her resignation as the Liberal candidate for Burnaby South does not. In fact, the 43-year-old mother of two and daycare operator has written Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other senior Liberal party brass withdrawing the resignation she sent out Wednesday. Wang is holding […]
Jan 16 2019 — Lorrie Goldstein — Sun Media — Few countries have been as willing to cut their own economic throats as Canada. We lose an estimated $15 billion annually in revenue to our economy — $40 million a day — because of our inability to get our oil to global markets, due to our lack of pipeline capacity. That means we have to […]
Jan 16 2019 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Give us your tired, your poor, your fashionistas yearning to shop freely. To be honest, I’m glad Canada stepped up and offered asylum to Rahaf Mohammed, the 18-year-old Saudi woman who claimed to be escaping abuse in home country. But why the haste? Why the bypassing of ALL our refugee regulations? Why the hero’s welcome […]
Jan 13 2019 — Lorrie Goldstein — Sun Media — It was a simple and direct question to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a town hall meeting in Regina Thursday, politely asked by a young woman, that spoke volumes about today’s politics. About how you don’t have to yell at politicians to be effective in challenging their views. And about how the prime minister – […]
Jan 13 2019 — Jim Warren — Sun Media — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced three byelections in Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia this past week. Normally, I would argue that byelections are not a good indicator of general election success. But the results in each of these three ridings will dramatically impact the 2019 federal election. The three byelections being held are in the […]
Jan 13 2019 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — Just the other day, I was out for lunch with a senior public policy advisor and the conversation to drifted to how odd it is that for decades successive Canadian governments have been so enamoured with cozying up to the Chinese leadership in Beijing. Then, right at that moment, a former senior cabinet minister walked […]
Jan 10 2019 — Lorrie Goldstein — Sun Media — Predicting that Andrew Scheer and the Conservatives are done like dinner heading into the Oct. 21 federal election is dumb. Predictions such as: “Why Andrew Scheer will never be Prime Minister” (iPolitics.ca, May 3, 2018) and “Face it Conservatives. Picking Scheer was a mistake” (iPolitics.ca, Jan. 5, 2018) are dumb. How do we know?
Jan 6 2019 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — At the end of every year, Radio-Canada does a satirical send-up of major newsmakers called “Bye-bye.” Every New Year’s Eve millions tune in to see who will be skewered this time. The politician who came in for the greatest mocking this year was Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over his Mr. Dressup tour of India last […]
Jan 3 2019 — Lorrie Goldstein — Sun Media — The Green Party’s Elizabeth May is the only mainstream federal leader who’s a straight talker on climate change. Unlike the Liberals and Conservatives, she has a consistent position that makes sense if you believe, as she does, that man-made climate change is the most important issue facing voters in the Oct. 21 election, because it’s […]
Jan 3 2019 — Sun Media — Lately, the provincial NDP government has been pushing the line that a major economic recovery is underway in Alberta. Their refrain has been, “Alberta’s economic growth has led the nation for the past two years!” In a breathless email to NDP supporters between Christmas and New Year’s, Premier Rachel Notley asked, “Who can deny how […]
Dec 31 2018 — Christina Blizzard — Sun Media — The stunning hypocrisy of left-wing pundits decrying Ontario Proud, a highly-effective conservative group that spent some $460,000 on third-party advertising in the last provincial election, is quite staggering. For the past 15 years — since the 2003 election in which Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals thrashed Tory Ernie Eves — a left wing, union-backed, third-party advertiser, Working […]
Dec 30 2018 — Jim Warren — Sun Media — Making predictions these days in politics is like trying to predict the weather in Newfoundland. We know we will experience fog, cold, wind, snow and rain, but when the sun and warmth will come is anyone’s guess. So I don’t know how predictable my predictions will be, having clocked in at three 3 for 5 […]
Dec 30 2018 — Lorne Gunter — Sun Media — Maybe 2019 will be a better year than 2018, politically and economically. When our editors asked me to write a column about the biggest stories of the year just past and predict the ones that will be big in the year ahead, I came up with two. In Alberta, of course, pipelines dominated most people’s […]
Dec 28 2018 — Sun Media — With the next federal election about 10 months away, a growing number of Manitoba voters appear set to vote Conservative. As the federal vote slated for Oct. 21, 2019 draws closer, a new Probe Research poll found the official Opposition party has gained ground in Manitoba, with 42% of decided and leaning voters now planning […]
Dec 27 2018 — Lorrie Goldstein — Sun Media — As we head into the New Year, I have a homework assignment for anyone who’s interested. It’s to watch Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and all federal Liberal cabinet ministers and MPs in 2019 to determine the following: Do they look like people who seriously believe Canada and the world face an […]