The failure of the People’s Party of Canada (PPC) to win a single seat was, to me, the most surprising revelation of the last federal election. The writing was on the wall for Trudeau, and the Conservatives were going to be squeezed by the insurgent populists. For the...
Chile has plunged into her worst political crisis in decades. The ongoing unrest in Latin America’s richest nation is a warning for politicians to resolve social discontent before it metastasizes. However, Chile also offers a warning for climate activists: policies...
Nalcor chief financial officer Derrick Sturge told the Muskrat Falls Inquiry the business case to recover costs from the project was “rock solid.” The reality is much more disconcerting as Muskrat Falls promises to saddle the province with growing debt. The vital...
Lucyshyn is a Senior Research Fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, and in this clip he discusses the process of re-drawing internal boundaries in Canada and shows off some historic and proposed changes to give Alberta and Saskatchewan access to the Pacific...
The cost of actually building a house does not vary that much across Canada The Ford government’s plan to expand the land supply available for housing has evoked the usual dog whistles about “urban sprawl” by interests apparently unaware of the strong...
Reading is the most important skill taught in school. If students don’t learn how to read, not much else that happens there is going to matter. That’s because being able to read is important in virtually every job. Without the ability to read, life itself will be a...
In 2008 I was invited to a conference called Australia Recycles! in Fremantle. I flew coach for 30 hours (we had to divert, at one point, to Auckland instead of Sydney because huge headwinds used up more fuel than expected) and landed in Perth and then was driven to...
Nalcor is the electric power generating holding company supplying the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, ‘NL’. It is also the parent company of Newfoundland & Labrador Hydro, ‘NLH’, the actual utility that distributes and sells electric power to households,...
Maclean’s magazine once declared Winnipeg as “Canada’s most racist city.” Now it is Thunder Bay’s turn, a city in turmoil after a report slammed its overstretched police force (if not the entire city) for alleged “systemic racism” towards its Indigenous population....
As the final leg of the world-famous Bruce Trail – the country’s longest and oldest hiking trail – Ontario’s rugged Bruce Peninsula places a physical exclamation mark upon some of Canada’s most spectacular and well-loved scenery. Separating Lake Huron from Georgian...
E ngā mana, en ngā reo, e ngā karangatanga maha. Tēnā kotou. Greetings. It’s my special privilege to address this nation today about Ihumātao because it’s an issue that goes to the heart of who we are as a country. This Government believes in shared prosperity, and I...
There is no other time in recent history that British politics has been so turbulent. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been accused of lying to the Queen by a Scottish court, the Conservative government has lost its majority and kicked out 21 rebel Tory MPs,...
SaskPower is the electric power generating holding company and retail utility supplying the province of Saskatchewan. It also buys power from independent suppliers within the province. Unlike some of its Crown utility peers in Canada, it is not in bad financial...
Recently announced pay cuts to Alberta elected representatives raise the important question whether our elected representatives get paid too much or even enough. Outside of political considerations, the question of salaries is important because we link attracting...
Speaking at the 13th International Conference on Climate Change, held July 25 in Washington, DC, Dr. Roy W. Spencer of the University of Alabama in Huntsville said: “There is no climate crisis. Even if all the warming we’ve seen in any observational dataset is due to...