Stephen Harper

EDITORIAL – Why prime ministers shouldn’t have to be fluent in French

February 4, 2020 // 6 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. SO FAR, PETER MACKAY’S FRENCH is the biggest issue to come up in the federal Conservative leadership “race.” Thank goodness there’s [Continue]

TAUBE – Andrew Scheer’s conservative vision for Canada

May 31, 2017 // 1 Comment

HERE’S AN amusing trivia question. Who was Andrew Scheer’s only media endorsement for the federal Conservative leadership? Me, according to a master list compiled by [Continue]

TAUBE – Future Tory leader must look to the past for role models

May 6, 2017 // 2 Comments

THE CONSERVATIVE leadership race was thrown for a loop last week. Businessman and media gadfly Kevin O’Leary unexpectedly dropped out and endorsed former cabinet minister [Continue]

KINSELLA – One step forward, two steps back for the Conservatives

April 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

CAN YOU LOSE by winning? It’s not a riddle, it’s a fair question. Surveying the wreckage that now litters the Conservative landscape, it’s a timely question, too. [Continue]

EDITORIAL — Media, public don’t judge Harper the same way

August 2, 2015 // 5 Comments

EDITORIAL — Now that the media are finished whining about the cost of the extra-long election campaign, we can get on with figuring out who’s best qualified to lead [Continue]

LETTER — Harper Govt policies and practices I find offensive

July 20, 2015 // 8 Comments

LETTER — Conservative members’ ridings got the largest proportion of the recently announced Infrastructure funds, money distributed according to greed, not need. Money [Continue]

KNOX — Ottawa’s control-freak chokehold on information

May 31, 2015 // 1 Comment

Jack Knox grew up in Kamloops and got his start in journalism here, but always had a secret desire to work for the Victoria Times Colonist. COLUMN — How goofy has the [Continue]

Tributes flow in for former finance minister Jim Flaherty – ‘a terrible loss for our country’

April 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

NEWS — Tributes have begun coming in for former federal finance minister Jim Flaherty, who died today in his Ottawa home. The cause of death was not immediately known, [Continue]

Meet your hair apparent — in politics these days it’s what’s on top that really counts

April 6, 2014 // 0 Comments

SLIGHTLY SKEWED (COLUMN) — News item: North Korea watchers are debunking reports that president Kim Jong Un has ordered his countrymen to adopt his distinctive hairstyle. [Continue]

Canada must find new ways to engage as China’s superpower status grows, says expert

April 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

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]

McLeod praises outgoing finance minister

March 18, 2014 // 0 Comments

NEWS — Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod praised outgoing federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty today as a man whose legacy goes beyond his handling of the [Continue]