Columns
Opinion: Is anyone in Ottawa going to do anything about inflation?
The latest report from Statistics Canada shows prices jumping 4.7 per cent over the year. That’s the highest annual price increase in nearly two decades. […]
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National News
Liberals announce a ban on 1500 firearms
On Friday morning, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the ban of over 1,500 models and varients of what he calls “assault-style firearms,” including nine categories of firearms and two types identified by characteristic. The announcement also prohibits some firearms components. […]
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Guest Column: How Many Zeros In A Trillion Dollars?
As of March 31, 2019 reporting, our National Debt was 685 billion ($685,000,000,000) dollars. We will not see the March 31, 2020 balance sheets for some time. Estimates from the Government put it somewhere just over 700 billion. ($700,000,000,000)
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Editorial & Opinion
Editorial: Let’s all cheer for Canada’s volunteers!
National Volunteer Week runs Apr. 19 to 25 this year with the theme “Let’s all cheer for Canada’s volunteers!”, a theme that not only recognizes the impact of volunteers and how they lift communities like Morinville but also our current inability to actually shake a volunteer’s hand. […]
Business
Trudeau announces lower payroll criteria for federal small businesses loan program
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced new measures Thursday that the federal government says would support Canadian businesses so they can keep their doors open and their employees on the job. […]
Columns
National Column: How Canada can break its dependence on the U.S.
How can Canada break its dependence on the United States? This question has bedeviled both the left and the right since 1945. […]
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National Column: The stakes are low in squabble between Ottawa and Riyadh
Canada’s squabble with Saudi Arabia is convenient for both. The stakes are low and each government can gain political points by hanging tough.
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National Column: What is the point of NATO?
Donald Trump says too many NATO countries, including Canada, don’t pay their fair share of defence costs. The U.S. president is right about that. But the real question facing the 29-member alliance is far more fundamental. […]
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National Column: Preparing national policy for the era post-NAFTA
When countries erect tariff barriers, companies move their production. That’s a reality that Canada once used to its advantage.
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National Column: Pipeline impasse as big as ever
A month after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepped in to resolve the impasse between British
Columbia and Alberta over the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline, his government has little to show for its efforts. […]
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National Column: Carbon pricing, the national divider
It’s now clear the Canadian debate over climate change and carbon pricing is serving no one’s interests. […]
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National Column: The future is bleak for Bloc Quebecois
And then there were two. That’s how many of the 10 MPs elected under the Bloc Quebecois banner in 2015 still support Martine Ouellet in her agonizing bid to hang on to her leader’s job.
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National Column: What U.S. interest in TPP means for Canada
Donald Trump is reportedly musing that he might join the 11-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal. If he is serious, the angst-ridden negotiations over the North American Free Trade Agreement, as well as NAFTA itself, could become largely irrelevant. […]
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National Column: NAFTA deal to reveal how far Canada, Mexico surrendered
There are reports that an agreement-in-principle is near in the fraught negotiations over the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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National Column: Russia policy raises many questions
Canada’s decision to expel Russian diplomats raises more questions than it answers.
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said the expulsion of four diplomats and the refusal to accredit three more is designed to show solidarity with Britain, which blames Russia for deploying a deadly nerve agent in England.
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National Column: There is no peace to keep in Mali
Whatever it is, Canada’s planned UN peacekeeping mission to Mali has little to do with keeping the peace. […]