PQ budget reflects an alternate reality
The Parti Québécois’ separatist financial plan doesn’t seem to recognize that an independent Quebec would be small, impoverished, and barely viable.
It is open season on Quebec’s anglophones
To deny one group of citizens their institutions, rights, or access to government services is outright discrimination.
Carbon-pricing course change drives Liberals into another self-made mess
Instead of winning votes in one region and getting applauded for responding to regional concerns, the Liberals have set off a national bidding war for regional wins.
Long after its best-before date, the ‘Big Owe’ lives on
Quebec Premier François Legault says he wants a new roof and new lease on life for the Montreal Olympic Stadium.
Is this any way to run a country?
Amid the urgent need to do something about the catastrophe of climate change, Canadians on the right continue to undermine the required national co-operation.
Dogmatism an existential threat to Liberals’ political fortunes in Atlantic Canada, say pollsters
While the growing public warnings from within the federal Liberal caucus and at the provincial level over climate policies have so far remained polite, Abacus Data’s Tim Powers says they may not remain so the longer they are ignored.
All our puny sorrows: plea for perspective in an anguished world
While Israelis and Palestinians alike reckon with the aftermath of the barbarism unleashed by Hamas last week, one Canadian leader has invoked the notwithstanding clause to allow him to over-ride the rights of young people questioning their gender identity. Now there’s a crisis.
Alberta premier’s push for separate provincial pension plan part of broader conflict with Ottawa, say experts, but necessary to keep base on side
‘That’s not the way multilateral negotiations in general work, and it’s certainly not the way that multilateral intergovernmental relations in Canada work,’ says Jared Wesley from the University of Alberta.
Fiscal state of provinces offers Ottawa a chance to push more centralization—if it chooses—says IRPP report
A ‘stable, long-term’ solution is possible, but that’s hampered by an ‘accountability problem,’ and it’s on display right now in Manitoba’s provincial election, says Brian Topp.
François Legault and the revival of the Parti Québécois
At a certain point, the premier’s brand of nationalism will confront the limits of its own contradictions.
