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Prescient demonstrators at the White House on a summer night in 2018. (Image credit: David J. Climenhaga).
Canadian Conservatives, take note: de-Trumpification is coming and not just to the U.S.
David J. Climenhaga | Right-wing Canadian politicians like Alberta Premier Kenney need to find a way to put some distance between themselves and the obvious comparisons to Donald Trump's excesses.
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Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer. Image: Andrew Scheer/Flickr
Canada's Conservatives: Republicans or Tories?
Duncan Cameron | In election 2019, the Conservatives ran a campaign mimicking U.S. Republicans: presenting themselves to voters as a low-tax, anti-government party, comfortable with a social conservative agenda.
Columnists
Andrew Scheer and Doug Ford at Ontario PC Party 2018 Convention. Photo: Andrew Scheer/Flickr
In Canadian politics, true right-wing populism is a nonstarter
Rick Salutin | Elsewhere in the world, right-wing populism is having a moment. But in Canada, you can't do outright denial or ridicule, à la Trump or Bolsonaro.
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USS George H.W. Bush in the Persian Gulf
Why Canada's belligerent Conservatives are likely praying for peace in the Persian Gulf
David J. Climenhaga | Tension between predominantly Shia Muslim Iran and predominantly Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia has the potential to wreck Canadian conservatives' only election game plan.
Podcast
Interview with Dr. Michael Stevenson on Refugee Health
Koba Konesavarathan | Can we trust the offer of the Harper Government to support refugees? Please listen to this audio to learn how the Harper Government is supposedly aidinging the existing refugees.
Podcast
Interview with Dr. Michael Stevenson on Refugee Health
Koba Konesavarathan | Can we trust the offer of the Harper Government to support refugees? Please listen to this audio to learn how the Harper Government is supposedly aidinging the existing refugees.
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Goodbye and see you soon, Peter MacKay
Stephen Kimber | While it may be premature to pen Peter MacKay's political obituary, it's never too early to assess his accomplishments -- and otherwise -- to date.
News
Harper is not really a Canadian Conservative
Karl Nerenberg | Harper has strayed far from the Canadian Conservative tradition of Borden, Diefenbaker and Mulroney. His style is more that of Richard Nixon with a touch of the old Soviet Union!
Columnists
Next election puts Canadians to the test: Will we throw Harper out?
Ralph Surette | Thanks to the Harper government's expertise in propaganda and manipulation, the rodent-like gnawing at democratic process and our legal structure has been under the radar. Are we going to catch on?
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Why the economy sucks, in one chart
Toby Sanger | If everything is in place according to the Conservatives' economic ideology -- balanced budgets, low taxes, low interest rates, free trade, low wage growth -- why does the economy suck?
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A cynical view of Conservative politics and voters
Joyce Arthur | Why isn't there more widespread awareness and opposition to how Stephen Harper is transforming Canada to conform to his narrow ideological agenda?
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Stephen Harper: Killing off Canadian conservatism
Duncan Cameron | It has become increasingly apparent that a main outcome of Harper's Conservative Party has been to bury the doctrine that animated Conservative party leaders before Harper: Canadian conservatism.