Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| The Bloc Québécois leader said oil "is never coming back" while the former Green party leader stated "oil is dead." The Alberta premier called those remarks 'divisive.' |
News
Karl Nerenberg
| For some federal politicians, the crisis engendered by the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs' refusal to allow a natural gas pipeline through their territory is also an opportunity. |
News
Karl Nerenberg
| Given the built-in biases of our electoral system, it is a minor miracle that the Greens managed to win any seats at all in the House of Commons. |
News
Alex Cosh
| The Greens' pan-ideological approach might partly explain why the party struggled to make new gains in an NDP-dominated area like Vancouver Island. |
Blog
Linda Leon
| Could the Green plan meet its goals of "addressing the climate emergency" and "transitioning to a green economy"? |
News
Karl Nerenberg
| The purpose of a debate should be to force leaders to go beyond slogans, zingers and prepared lines. The voters want to hear party leaders explain in detail what they would do in government. |
News
Karl Nerenberg
| As they prepare for the next round of debates, all of the federal party leaders are fighting their own demons. |
News
Karl Nerenberg
| Long before 2001, most of us knew that imitating other cultures or ethnicities was not acceptable. Why didn't the young Justin Trudeau not know as much many years later? |
News
Karl Nerenberg
| Scheer wants to present a reassuring and non-threatening face to voters; Singh stays on message; and May speaks her mind. |
Columnists
Rick Salutin
| We should consider this election a privilege. For the first time, the top issue in voters' minds is the main threat not only to Canada but to organized human life: environmental crisis. |
News
Karl Nerenberg
| History teaches that parties can survive all kinds of internal strife and turbulence to do quite well when the voting actually starts. |
Blog
Brent Patterson
| Travelling by train wouldn't make Trudeau or Scheer climate leaders, but jetting across the country for 36 days is deeply problematic. |