Columns
National Column: When do media woes become public policy?
Under the guise of a migration to the digital world, Canada’s news media is undergoing the biggest journalistic fire sale of its history. […]
National News
Business
CFIB announces winners during Red Tape Week
The Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses, a 109,000-strong national organization, unveiled the most burdensome bureaucracies to businesses Jan. 20, the third day of their Red Tape Awareness Week. […]
Columns
National Column: Moving slowly on ISIS could backfire
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. […]
Columns
National Column: Mulcair feels the pinch in Quebec
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. […]
Food & Health
Government to discontinue conditional registrations for pesticides
Effective June 1, the federal government will no longer grant new conditional registrations of pesticides, something they are heralding as an important step in improving openness and transparency in the country’s pesticide regulatory system. […]
Food & Health
Feds partner with provinces and territories to lower pharmaceutical costs
The Government of Canada’s federal drug plans will join the pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance (pCPA), an alliance that negotiates on behalf of provinces and territories to lower brand name and generic drug prices.
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Columns
National Column: Mulcair must prove he’s fit to lead
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. […]
Columns
National Column: Why must the nation’s capital be ‘soulless’?
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. […]
Columns
National Column: Toughest part of Syrian resettlement still ahead
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. […]
Columns
National Column: Twelve Canadians who will wield influence in 2016
by Tim Harper – Toronto Star By word or by deed, 12 people, five women and seven men, including a […]
Morinville News
Ambrose will continue to challenge Liberal government in New Year
At the start of 2015 local MP Rona Ambrose could have had no idea that she would end the year as head of the Conservative Party of Canada.
Then the job came open with Stephen Harper’s resignation as the party leader following the conclusive defeat of the Conservatives in the Oct. 19 federal election. […]
Columns
National Column: Tongue-tied and twisted: The year in verbal gaffes
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. […]
Local News
Old Guys in Action raise $44,000
Morinville lawyer Andrew Lawson and a group of friends from Calgary, riding under the name Old Guys in Action, have raised $44,000 for Cause Canada’s (Christian Aid for Under-Assisted Societies Everywhere) efforts with maternal health in Guatemala. […]
Columns
National Column: Hyperactive Trudeau not waiting for new year
It’s really a beta version of his government that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is introducing to the House of Commons this week. […]
Columns
National Column: Brad Wall, the shining conservative star
And then there was one. With this week’s Liberal sweep in Newfoundland and Labrador by premier-designate Dwight Ball, the Conservative […]
Columns
National Column: Time is right for Trudeau to act boldly for change
It was 13 years ago. Jean Chretien’s government ratified the Kyoto Protocol and the Liberal prime minister proclaimed “Canada is a good citizen of the world.” […]