FEATURED COMMENT – The use of Emergencies Act powers is desperate
Mr. Rothenburger, From reading the article (Invoking Emergencies Act isn’t the same as War Measures of 1970), I gather your arguments were as follows: The Emergencies [Continue]
Pierre Trudeau
EDITORIAL – Invoking Emergencies Act isn’t the same as War Measures of 1970
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ‘JUST WATCH ME.’ Those words from then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, spoken in 1970, are being recalled by many today. They were [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – This isn’t your father’s minority government
PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU’s minority government is not like his father’s. When Pierre Trudeau won minority government in 1972, he didn’t have the support of [Continue]
POLITICS – Will Justin Trudeau follow in his father Pierre’s footsteps?
By ALLAN BONNER Contributor, Troy Media A CHARISMATIC LEADER with most of the bloom off the rose near the end of his first mandate. An ordinary leader, elected from a [Continue]
POLITICS – Anti-Alberta bigotry clothed in environmental clichés and platitudes
It is anyone’s guess how long Albertans will put up with this assault on their interests and insult to their self-respect By BARRY COOPER University of Calgary DAVE YAGER [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Encylopedia of old gets no respect, but people still read
ALMOST FIVE YEARS AGO, I began reading my pristine 1968 edition of The American People’s Encyclopedia. I bought it from a door-to-door salesman after I got my first [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Like father like son, standing up to the American bully
IT WOULD BE so easy to blame Justin Trudeau for the blow-up of the G7 economic conference, to say it’s all his fault that everything fell apart after Donald Trump jumped on [Continue]
POLITICS – Canada needs another politician like John G. Diefenbaker
In the hyper-sensitive world of modern politics, opposition politicians aren’t brave enough to talk about critical issues By BRIAN GIESBRECHT Senior Fellow Frontier [Continue]
McQUARRIE – More Father Knows Best – The back door to legislating morality
LAST WEEK’S column on the perils of pot and how Father Knows Best, drew a number of responses but one in particular caught my eye. In this case, the reader felt City [Continue]
MURPHY – A multi-candidate Tory leadership race from another era
I’M HAVING a hard time developing any interest in the federal Conservative leadership campaign. It’s not that the candidates repel me. So far, they just bore me. It was [Continue]
F-bomb doesn’t always blow up political fortunes, as Pierre, Joe and Justin have proven
COLUMN — Justin Trudeau dropped an F-bomb in public, and we are supposed to be offended. In truth, some people are, but others just yawn. The degree of outrage often has as [Continue]
Canada must find new ways to engage as China’s superpower status grows, says expert
By JACOB ROTHENBURGER China will continue to expand as a military and economic superpower, and Canada needs to find new ways to engage with it, a guest lecturer told an [Continue]
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