Growing discontent between feds and provinces
Passing a Meech Lake-like constitutional accord would be the only way to save the country from disintegrating.
The business, environmental, political, security and self-interest cases for energy exports to Japan
In Western Canada, where the full range and importance of the trade relationship with Japan is well understood and appreciated, the hope that ‘we don’t blow it this time’ runs strong. But it is clouded by real worry.
Federal oversight of health-care funding ‘basic common sense’ after public money disappeared down ‘provincial ratholes’: Fisman
More than 30,000 Canadians signed a parliamentary petition calling for better auditing of the Canada Healthcare Transfer to restrict ‘private capital’ from further encroaching on the public health-care system.
Challenges to how Canada operates only likely to deepen in 2023
These situations contribute to potential chaos, distrust of government, and the weakening of the country’s system of shared governmental powers.
Canada must increase surveillance assets in the Arctic
True maritime domain awareness in the Arctic requires multiple overlapping systems that authorities can cross-reference to assess vessels operating in our internal waters.
Is the federal government on autopilot?
There will be future case studies on how not to run a government based on the recent FUBARs in Ottawa that make the Phoenix debacle look like a cakewalk.
On health, premiers cherish their jurisdiction, not their responsibilities
Having let the health system reach a state of near collapse where patients run the risk of dying in emergency rooms, the premiers are determined to shift the blame to the federal government.
Provinces ‘flush with cash’ means Liberals can ‘hold their ground’ in fight to tie strings to health funding, says strategist
UBC researcher Paul Kershaw says a better approach is to spend more on prevention instead of investing in medical systems that were ‘never designed to create health.’
Smith leads the way as the right challenges democratic norms in the post-COVID political wasteland
Alberta’s Sovereignty Act takes place against a backdrop of anger and grievance aimed at the Trudeau government that is largely based on myth.
The North
