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Maybe it’s because the length of the campaign served Justin Trudeau so well that the prime minister sometimes sounds like he is still campaigning instead of governing. […]
Even as NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair launches a bid for a mandate to lead the party for another four years and a second election campaign, his Quebec base is slipping from under him. […]
When Thomas Mulcair was last squarely in the public eye, he was retreating into the background after a painful campaign.
Monday, he starts another tough campaign. This time, instead of seeking to form a government, he will be campaigning to keep his job as NDP leader. […]
Talking to folks since the Christmas break has been like scraping the bottom of a jar of mayonnaise to get enough for your sandwich. There ain’t much there, and what you do get comes with that awful scraping sound of metal on glass. […]
Maybe it’s a product of ever-deepening snow banks or the winter winds that threaten to snap your ears in two, but a quintessential Canadian debate has emerged here yet again. […]
Much of the political and national conversation on the Trudeau government’s ambitious Syrian refugee program has revolved around targets and timelines. But that has obscured a larger truth.
As the country’s 10,000th Syrian refugee arrives in Canada this week, the toughest part of this project for the Liberal government lies ahead. […]
The news just seems to get stranger and stranger in a world that seems to get even more stranger and […]
The Jan. 6 edition of The Morinville News marks the start of our 6th year of print publication. With this edition comes a format change to a taller conventional newspaper style. […]
The New Year brings with it a sense of new beginnings, a fresh start and in the depths of January’s dark days a respite from the excitement of Christmas and time to plan for the future and also to reflect on the past year.
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Well, the owner of this rag convinced me that I ought to come back and start writing a column again regular. I originally didn’t want to do it because of a number of reasons, but mostly it was the number of dollars offered. More like the lack of the number of dollars offered. […]
by Tim Harper – Toronto Star By word or by deed, 12 people, five women and seven men, including a […]
Well, we’ve all done it.
We’ve said something we immediately regret, or didn’t mean. Or we twist ourselves in pretzels to avoid saying something. […]
Canada’s Syrian refugee resettlement operation is more than a laudable contribution to a global humanitarian crisis. It is also a well-executed political play.
Because it was one of the Liberals’ most time-sensitive undertakings, the campaign commitment to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees before the end of the year was always a strong candidate for early failure. […]
Smiling refugees and hopeful First Nations. A historic climate deal and international adulation. And those stratospheric poll numbers.
As 2015 draws to a close, the capital is Bedford Falls, Old Man Potter has been banished and we’re all living in the final scene of It’s a Wonderful Life.
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The ol’ Duff doesn’t draw the crowds he used to.
The big top has come down, the circus has left town and Mike Duffy is stuck in the witness box in Courtroom 33, showing us pictures of his new foundation and parking pad at his Prince Edward Island home, detailing his medical woes and his bank balance, praising his wife Heather’s gardening skills and explaining the sewage system in Cavendish. […]
When the House of Commons convenes Monday for its first daily question period in almost six months, we could be witnessing the beginning of the end for some hidebound traditions. […]
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