Politics in Canada

Canada and the European Union announced on September 8 that they had completed negotiations on the Canada-EU Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA). Say what?

The most intriguing aspect of last week's announcement of Nova Scotia's fracking ban is how quickly the chattering classes lined up to attack the government for being too craven to stand up to voters.

According to the mail they constantly send their supporters, the Harper Cons getting ready to go to war … with the media.

A well-orchestrated takeover of the Carleton student union by right-wing forces led to the erosion of progressive policies that kept students safe.

The launch Thursday of a partnership between Indigenous Canadians and all Canadians could keep up the unrelenting pressure on Ottawa to make changes in its relationship with Aboriginal peoples.

What's Alberta's new PC leader to do? He can hardly throw the old crowd under the bus at the same time as he's putting some of them back in the cabinet driver's seat.

If the PCs won't say how many memberships the Jim Prentice campaign gave away, it's fair to conclude that, notwithstanding claims to the contrary, it's Tory business as usual in Alberta.