Saturday, February 14, 2026

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20 years since 9/11, what have we learned?

EDMONTON—On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, when I stepped out of the shower at 7 a.m. Mountain time, my wife told me to look at the television. With a towel wrapped around me, I stood staring at a replay of a lone plane smashing into the World Trade Center in New York City. Then the second […]

The consequences of Islamophobic Conservative policies are coming home to roost

OTTAWA—There is a direct line from the political and policy responses following 9/11 to the murder of the Afzaal-Salman family; there is a cause and effect when politicians spread state-sanctioned hate through policies and the rhetoric required to sell them to the public. It is at this point of reckoning that Canada once again learns […]

Sharpening of cabinet-making tools a portent of an election to come

OTTAWA—If, as the Ottawa gossip mill suggests (notably it never gets dampened by even a pandemic), that the prime minister is planning an election in late summer or early fall, is a federal cabinet shuffle on the horizon? The government seems to be risk managing all other elements of its agenda and operations. So, after […]