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The Morinville Fire Department is issuing a fire ban which prohibits open burning, fireworks, back yard fire pits, cooking stoves in parks and BBQs using solid fuels. […]
If one had to describe the mode of Justin Trudeau’s government six months into its first mandate, it would be cruise control rather than full throttle.
Whether by design or by necessity the Liberals are dealing with a heavy policy agenda by pacing themselves. […]
by Gladys Kublik Spring is a lovely time of year unless you suffer from allergies. The first culprit making life […]
If Mike Duffy returns to his Senate seat this week, his arrival will not be heralded with an open landau and rose petals.
But if he marks his arrival with a request for repayment of his salary while he was under suspension, his Senate colleagues have two choices. […]
Perhaps it was the impatience of youth.
More likely, it was the impatience of a First Nations generation meeting a prime minister who has raised expectations sky high. […]
Sometimes you’ve got to be pissed off.
Justin Trudeau got there this week as his response to terrorism continues its remarkable evolution. […]
Planter gardens are becoming very trendy for both homes and businesses. With the building of bigger houses and less yard space, planter gardens are a great way to add interest and colour to your yard where it’s just not feasible to have a regular style garden or to provide additional growing space in preferred areas. […]
It was barely a decade ago, but much of the emotional debate on both sides of the border over Canada’s participation in a North American missile-defence program seems already forgotten.
It was an issue that pivoted on matters of Canadian sovereignty, bilateral relations and the weaponization of space, but for the prime minister of the day, Paul Martin, the decision to stay out of the American program was really about the toxicity of the U.S. president of the day, George W. Bush. […]
The ripples of the acquittal of Sen. Mike Duffy on 31 corruption-related charges should be felt well beyond the parliamentary pond.
The verdict is a stark reminder to all of Canada’s political class that the Criminal Code is no substitute for an ethical compass. […]
Had he so chosen, Mike Duffy could have left his familiar courtroom perch Thursday, made a hard right and taken a step on the long road to redemption.
He could have marched down the wide expanse of Elgin St. toward the War Memorial, veered left and into the Centre Block’s east doors leading to the Senate chamber. […]
But for young millennial voters Justin Trudeau might not have won a majority victory last fall.
As an Abacus Data study confirmed this week, the younger cohort of the electorate tilted the balance in favour of the Liberals. By turning out in greater numbers and coalescing behind Trudeau, voters aged 18 to 25 almost certainly made a difference between a minority and a majority. […]
by Tim Harper When it comes to physician-assisted dying, should the beliefs of a health-care institution trump a charter right […]
Feeling a bit like Dear Old Abby this week on account of I got an email from a mother in town what’s got some concerns about her kids. […]
The sky won’t fall if Parliament fails to pass legislation on assisted death by the court-imposed deadline of June 6. It was always going to be no longer a criminal act after that date for a medical practitioner to help a patient who wanted to end their life. Plans for a federal law were never meant to do more than circumscribe this new reality. […]
A Conservative government could have written the Liberal assisted-dying legislation introduced this week in the House of Commons. It reads like a bill Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould found in the bottom drawer of her Tory predecessor’s desk. […]
The idea of a politician or political party being right-wing or left-wing dates back to France in the 1700s. Back […]
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